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What we know about SNAP right now: Communications toolkit

Community Solutions Team
October 30, 2025

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Celebration 2025 award winners

Eboney Thornton
November 28, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Fifty-eight Ohio health and human service levies passed on the November 4 ballot

Kyle Thompson
November 17, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Budget Hearing: The MetroHealth System

Dylan Armstrong
November 17, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Celebrating one year of the Cuyahoga Human Services Chamber: Free Fundraising Workshop on Giving Tuesday

Annette Iwamoto
November 17, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Budget Hearing: Wrapping up the Department of Health and Human Services and ADAMHS Board

Dylan Armstrong
November 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Caregivers, their challenges, and how can public health and policy professionals can help

Natasha Takyi-Micah
November 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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SNAP uncertainty continues even with a potential end to the shutdown

Emily Campbell
November 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Four early lessons from the local response to the SNAP lapse

Emily Campbell
November 3, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Where to lend a hand while SNAP is unavailable

November 3, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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What we know about SNAP right now: Communications toolkit

Community Solutions Team
October 30, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Health and human services first budget hearing provides an overview of six departments and programs

Dylan Armstrong
October 27, 2025
Medicaid
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Advocacy organizations have an opportunity to document concerns about how Medicaid changes will affect access to expansion coverage

Tara Britton
October 20, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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At long last the county budget has arrived!

Dylan Armstrong
October 20, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Maybe I just have one of those faces…The importance of qualitative data

Alex Dorman
October 20, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Sixty-seven Health and Human Service levies on November 2025 ballots

Kyle Thompson
October 13, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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The task force behind preventive health care services recommendations

Julie Patterson
October 13, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio moves to restrict soda and sugary drinks from SNAP benefits

Community Solutions Team
October 13, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Visiting the Mid-Ohio Food Collective’s Hilltop Farm

Community Solutions Team
October 11, 2025
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Data Days 2025 is October 21. Conference registration is open!

Jason Kluk-Barany
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Department of Children and Youth: Final State Budget impacts

Tara Britton
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Department of Job and Family Services: Final State Budget impacts

Tara Britton
September 29, 2025
Older Adults
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Department of Aging: Final State Budget impacts

Natasha Takyi-Micah
September 29, 2025
Behavioral Health
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Department of Behavioral Health: Final State Budget impacts

Kyle Thompson
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Department of Health: Final State Budget impacts  

Dylan Armstrong
September 29, 2025
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Remembering Gerda Freedheim  

Emily Campbell
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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New insights about engaged youth from the 2024 Census

Alex Dorman
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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New Census data: Good news and bad news on poverty in Cleveland

Emily Muttillo
September 15, 2025
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Meet our Master of Ceremonies: Mike McIntyre!

Eboney Thornton
September 15, 2025
Medicaid
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Department of Medicaid: Final State Budget impacts

Community Solutions Team
September 14, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Feds to end paper check payments, disproportionately impacting Ohioans who are disabled, elderly, and with limited broadband 

Dylan Armstrong
September 13, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio advocates join national push to Save HIV Funding

Julie Patterson
September 12, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County begins the budget process

Dylan Armstrong
September 8, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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When work is not enough: Tackling poverty in Cleveland’s Ward 5

Tamikka James-Haygood
September 8, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Take the 2025 #RaceToLead survey today!

Annette Iwamoto
September 1, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Precarious work makes wealth building difficult for women in the labor force

Emily Muttillo
September 1, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Next steps in strengthening our nonprofit community together

Annette Iwamoto
August 19, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga Human Services Chamber continues to grow with election of inaugural Steering Committee

August 18, 2025
Behavioral Health
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Homelessness, harm reduction, and institutionalization in Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets Executive Order

Dylan Armstrong
August 18, 2025
Medicaid
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How changes to Medicaid will impact people living with HIV/AIDS

Community Solutions Team
August 18, 2025
Medicaid
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Ohio Medicaid: Financial impacts of House Resolution 1

August 16, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare in the federal reconciliation bill

Dylan Armstrong
August 4, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Storytelling through data worksheet: How to use the new Cleveland Ward fact sheets for advocacy

Jason Kluk-Barany
August 3, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cleveland is a city of neighborhoods...and of wards

Alex Dorman
August 1, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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More than 130,000 Ohio households to see an $1,150 annual reduction in SNAP benefits, and rural counties are hit hardest

Alex Dorman
July 21, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Tracking SNAP, Medicaid, and Medicare in the federal budget megabill

Community Solutions Team
July 21, 2025
Medicaid
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Federal Medicaid policy change ends continued waivers for continuous eligibility

Tara Britton
July 21, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Initial reflections on the 2026-2027 Ohio budget

Community Solutions Team
July 6, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Federal reconciliation bill shifts $416+ million in SNAP costs to Ohio taxpayers

Dylan Armstrong
July 2, 2025
Medicaid
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Medical stability in Cleveland: Medicaid and healthcare access

Alex Dorman
June 30, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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AFC welcomes Cleveland Foundation summer intern, Sofia Dewey

Julie Patterson
June 23, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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A long and rewarding path to an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health credential

Community Solutions Team
June 22, 2025
Medicaid
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When health coverage wasn't available: The systems that stepped in

Community Solutions Team
June 21, 2025
Medicaid
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Ohio Medicaid expansion could disappear if federal policy goes into effect

Emily Campbell
June 20, 2025
Medicaid
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Medicaid doesn’t run on promises or process—it runs on funding

John R. Corlett
June 20, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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One Big Beautiful Bill Act calls for major changes to Medicaid, the ACA, and SNAP

Community Solutions Team
June 16, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Thrifty Food Plan, work requirements, cost sharing, and immigrant eligibility: SNAP changes under HR 1

Dylan Armstrong
June 16, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Child Tax Credit in the federal budget: What to know

Kyle Thompson
June 16, 2025
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Updates from the Chamber and Greater Cleveland Funders Collaborative

Emily Campbell
June 13, 2025
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And the winner is…2025 community award nominations are open!

Eboney Thornton
June 2, 2025
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Apply for AFC's 2025-2026 responsive grants

Julie Patterson
May 30, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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5 guiding questions for effective public health communications

Madison Van Epps
May 27, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Rock Entertainment Group's Kevin Clayton is our Celebration 2025 keynote speaker

Eboney Thornton
May 26, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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Ohio's maternal mental health grade has improved slightly; Perinatal Mental Health Advocacy Day

Natasha Takyi-Micah
May 25, 2025
Behavioral Health
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Medicaid is the largest payor for mental health and substance use disorders, and cuts would harm behavioral health care in Ohio

Kyle Thompson
May 24, 2025
Medicaid
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Impacts on Medicaid if current federal budget proposal is adopted

May 18, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Proposed federal cuts would require at least $645 million per year in new state spending to maintain current SNAP benefit levels

Rachel Cahill
May 16, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Request for Proposal for branding and marketing for IECMH career pathways

Community Solutions Team
May 15, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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May 2025 primary levies: What passed?

Kyle Thompson
May 15, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Policy and funding threats could interrupt HIV treatment and prevention efforts in Cuyahoga County

Julie Patterson
May 12, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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What would change in Ohio under House-proposed SNAP provisions?

May 12, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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Infant mortality is problematic in Ohio and even worse in Northeast Ohio

Natasha Takyi-Micah
May 12, 2025
Medicaid
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Why Medicaid matters for people experiencing homelessness

May 12, 2025
Medicaid
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New maps reveal some surprises in Ohio Medicaid expansion data

Emily Campbell
May 4, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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A look at the Ohio House-passed version of the state budget

Community Solutions Team
April 28, 2025
Medicaid
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What’s at stake in Ohio? Reimagining the new Medicaid

April 28, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Eighteen health and human service levies in May election

Kyle Thompson
April 28, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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Infant and early childhood mental health: Bridging gaps and ensuring early intervention

Tamikka James-Haygood
April 28, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Connecting with legislators at Policy Advocacy Days

Kyle Thompson
April 21, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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AIDS Funding Collaborative community briefing at The Centers on April 29th

Julie Patterson
April 21, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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The first several weeks postpartum hold the highest risk for maternal death: New report explores trends, causes and timing of pregnancy-related issues

Natasha Takyi-Micah
April 14, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Health and human services loses ground in Substitute House Bill 96

Dylan Armstrong
April 7, 2025
Medicaid
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Director Maureen Corcoran and Greg Moody on Ohio Medicaid expansion: March JMOC update

Dylan Armstrong
April 7, 2025
Older Adults
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Borrowing a cup of sugar: One simple question says a lot about our community connections

Emily Muttillo
April 7, 2025
Medicaid
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Medicaid work requirement waiver: Comparing the draft versus final submission

March 31, 2025
Behavioral Health
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New opioid treatment program rules in effect in Ohio

Dylan Armstrong
March 31, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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What are the plans to address maternal and infant health in the state budget?

Natasha Takyi-Micah
March 31, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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TANF in the State Budget

Tara Britton
March 31, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Elimination of HIV prevention in CDC would reverse years of progress

Emily Campbell
March 24, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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What does wealth mean for women in Central Ohio?

Emily Muttillo
March 24, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Habitat on the Hill aims to address critical home ownership barriers

Audrianna Rodriguez
March 17, 2025
Older Adults
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The Ohio Department of Aging plans to continue services for older adults during the state budget period

Natasha Takyi-Micah
March 17, 2025
Behavioral Health
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Policy and financial support for harm reduction in the state budget

Dylan Armstrong
March 17, 2025
Medicaid
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How do Medicaid trigger laws work?

March 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio Budget timeline in the Senate, April - May

Kyle Thompson
March 10, 2025
Behavioral Health
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Ohio sees drop in suicide in 2023, state budget aims to increase behavioral health funding

Kyle Thompson
March 10, 2025
Maternal & Infant Health
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Food is Medicine Programs aimed at solutions to food insecurity crisis in Northeast Ohio

Natasha Takyi-Micah
March 10, 2025
Behavioral Health
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From reactive to proactive: RecoveryOhio Launches Overdose Early Warning Dashboard

Dylan Armstrong
March 3, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cherry-picking the data makes the data useless (and dangerous)

Alex Dorman
March 3, 2025
Medicaid
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Young kids in Ohio poised to gain continuous healthcare coverage under Medicaid waiver 1115

March 2, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
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The role of federal funding in county budgets

Dylan Armstrong
February 24, 2025
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