Introduction Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish will soon propose his third budget, the first of his second term. The 2020-2021 budget will prominently influence the future of the relatively young county government. The budget will bring a number of financial challenges. This post will briefly review the county budget process, what budget factors are known...
In Ohio, HIV prevention and care for people living with HIV was independent until federal funders – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) – required us to think of the services as a continuum and create an ‘integrated’ plan for HIV for Ohio, considered a...
This summer, researchers at the Prevention Research Center at Case Western Reserve University presented 2017 data on toxic stress and adolescents in Cuyahoga County. The source is a new, 15 question index local students answer if their high schools participate in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The YRBS is a surveillance system developed almost...
For the past eight months, I have been a graduate assistant (GA) with The Center for Community Solutions (Community Solutions). Being a graduate assistant means that I worked at Community Solutions 20-hours a week while also going to school to get my Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs...
Loren Anthes, Melissa Federman and Dani Carlson sit down to talk about the Ohio budget and what this budget potentially says about future budgets. Listen here or download it today!
As a master’s of social work student studying clinical social work practice at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), an internship as an applied research graduate assistant with The Center for Community Solutions may seem a little out of the ordinary. However, it proved to be an excellent fit for my academic goals and ultimately, Community...
Heading into the 2020-21 state budget, The Center for Community Solutions closely examined the cause behind declining enrollment in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, a larger proportion of the TANF caseload consisting of child-only cases (where children are living with another relative who isn’t their parent and receive cash assistance) and the...
