Deb Ortiz-Flores: Helping make Job & Family Services more client-friendly

From: La Prensa | Date: November 16, 2007| Author: Abrams, Alan | Copyright information

When Deb Ortiz-Flores looks around the room at a conference attended by the other 87 Ohio county Job and Family Services directors, she not only quickly realizes she is the only Latina in the state to hold that post, but one of only a handful of women to have cracked that longtime male bastion.

Ortiz-Flores has been the Lucas County Job and Family Services director since 2006. If you wonder how great a responsibility she carries, consider this: not only does Ortiz-Flores oversee the ac...

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