On March 15, The Center for Community Solutions released a memo outlining steps the State of Ohio and the federal government could take to help flatten the coronavirus curve and to boost Ohio’s economy. Since then, Ohio and the federal government have adopted some of our policy suggestions. This is meant to be a status...
Author: John Corlett
March 16, 2020
Ohio needs emergency health & human services Coronavirus policy changes
In light of the first, and hopefully only, global pandemic in our lives, my colleagues and I, with help from others, have pulled together a list of policy steps that we think are essential. The challenges the health and humans services sector face are unlikely any in our lifetime. Unless we take extraordinary steps, lives...
February 10, 2020
The Center for Community Solutions Board of Directors endorses March 17 Cuyahoga County health and human services levy
For more than 107 years, The Center for Community Solutions has led and supported efforts to reform and/or improve the delivery of health and human services at the local, state and national levels. In 1932 at the height of the Great Depression we advocated for a countywide welfare levy in response to unprecedented suffering and...
December 30, 2019
John Corlett’s top 10 reports from 2019
Producing a “top 10” list of Community Solutions publications is a dangerous undertaking. There is so much excellent content it’s hard to just pick 10 pieces. In 2019 alone we wrote 90 blog posts, not to mention 21 issue briefs and research papers. Many of them ended up on the front pages of newspapers, in...
December 23, 2019
What Community Solutions Needs to Know
Earlier this year The Center for Community Solutions asked subscribers to our e-newsletter “5 Things You Need To Know” to weigh in our current work, our future direction and our impact. More than 350 people responded and represented a wide variety of constituencies – Community Solutions board and staff, volunteers, policy makers, social service providers,...
December 9, 2019
Loren Anthes Appointed as Community Solution’s Treuhaft Chair for Health Planning
It gives me great pleasure to announce that The Center for Community Solutions will appoint Loren Anthes as the new endowed William C. and Elizabeth M. Treuhaft Chair for Health Planning at Community Solutions effective January 1, 2020. The Treuhaft Chair was created in 1985 in honor of William C. and Elizabeth M. Treuhaft. Mr....
April 29, 2019
What does Ohio legislative district data tell us about older adults and people with disabilities?
The Center for Community Solutions’ state legislative district profiles provide a wealth of economic, health, demographic and educational information that can sometimes explain how a state legislator might view the world and the issues they might focus during their legislative service. Last year I was appointed by Governor John Kasich to serve on the Ohio...
February 25, 2019
Undesign the Redline: Remembering Judge Frederick Coleman
Earlier this year a group of staff and board members from The Center for Community Solutions visited the Undesign the Redline exhibit hosted by Enterprise Community Partners, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress and Mt. Pleasant NOW Development Corporation. The exhibit looks at how a legacy of racial and class inequity continues to shape our public policies today...
November 12, 2018
5 Ohio Medicaid Policy Issues to Consider Post-Election
I woke up a little bleary eyed on Wednesday, November 7th. I stayed up way too late on election night (and maybe had one Christmas Ale too many) trying to take in the results as they rolled in, forgetting I had an 8:30 a.m. meeting scheduled on Wednesday morning. Probably like many of you I...
July 23, 2018
New Medicaid Eligibility Requirements Hit Close to Home
Over the past nearly 40 years I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how various local, state or federal policy choices might affect various groups of people – children, families, women, people with disabilities, etc. Sometimes I focus on how a decision might affect an individual, but most of the time I’m wrapped...
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