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Why is mental health care so hard to find with private insurance?
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Why is mental health care so hard to find with private insurance?

The Center for Community Solutions recently partnered with the Community Counseling Center of Ashtabula County to examine the behavioral health needs in Ashtabula County. One thing that came up in nearly every conversation we had with community members and stakeholders was the difficulty of finding behavioral health providers who accepted private insurance. Our community survey...

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Rural Poverty and Rent Burden in Appalachian Ohio: A Dangerous Crisis

By: Kyle Thompson, Policy Assistant and Alex Dorman, Research Fellow Poverty is a significant problem that impacts many different communities, families, and individuals across America. In Ohio, over thirteen percent of the population lives in poverty, and roughly 30 percent of the population lives near poverty (earning 200 percent of the federal poverty line). In...

Leadership District Fact Sheets: Examining Stephens’ House District 93 and Huffman’s Senate District 12 
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Leadership District Fact Sheets: Examining Stephens’ House District 93 and Huffman’s Senate District 12 

 The Center for Community Solutions recently released profiles for Ohio’s state legislative districts. We do this as a public service and make the profiles widely available. They include demographic, economic, education, and other data.   While we caution against comparing one district against another (sample sizes can be small and lead to large margins of...

Racism in Medical Journals: An Interview with Dr. Faye Gary
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Racism in Medical Journals: An Interview with Dr. Faye Gary

My colleague, Taneisha Fair, recently opened a conversation on racism in medical journals. As a follow-up, I spoke with an expert in publishing on psychiatric nursing and vulnerable populations. Dr. Faye Gary, an expert in psychiatric nursing, has built her career on advocating for vulnerable populations, including Black women. As a Black woman herself, she...

Community Solutions’ 2022 audience survey results are in!
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Community Solutions’ 2022 audience survey results are in!

The social services safety net and basic needs like food and housing is the most important health, social, or economic issue confronting the state of Ohio, according to the latest Community Solutions audience survey. Economic development, job training, and employment fell to the lowest level since we started asking the question a decade ago, landing...

ChatGPT and health and human services research
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Showing our work: does Community Solutions use ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text based on input prompts. It has been used in a wide range of applications, from generating news articles to creating personalized responses in chatbots. However, despite its impressive capabilities, ChatGPT has several limitations that must be taken into account when using...