The Center for Community Solutions will take a leadership roles in public policy by producing high-quality analysis and advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels to improve targeted health, social, educational, and economic conditions.

Public and philanthropic financial support to meet the needs of low- and middle-income people is at the heart of Community Solutions' mission. The Public Policy and Advocacy team will help to identify emerging issues and advance policy goals in aging, early care and education, and regional quality of life goals. This priority encompasses a sustained public policy presence, including:

• Fiscal and issue-based analysis, including fiscal sustainability and taxation; health care finance; community health; economy and workforce; confidentiality and service coordination; public contracting guidelines for health and social services;
• Analysis of federal and state tax policy to ensure a fair and adequate revenue system that is consistent with economic development and meeting basic human needs;
• Leadership for statewide health, social, and economic issue advocacy through strengthening coordination among nonpartisan human service advocacy networks in the Northeast Ohio region;
• Analysis and advocacy to ensure sustainable funding for safety-net human services, with a special emphasis on early care and education; and
• Annual regional, federal, state, local, charitable, philanthropic health and social service fiscal report and forecast.

Our Public Policy team focuses on a few key areas: 

• State Budget and Fiscal Policy;
• Federal Issues;
• Health care;
• Older Adults;
• Early Care and Education; and
• Workforce Policy.