Media Releases

Community Solutions actively engages the media and helps keep them informed about health, social, and economic issues so that they, in turn can help inform and influence policy makers and the public. Our outreach to the community includes, but isn’t limited to, submissions of op-eds, letters to the editor, news releases, and ideas for news and feature stories. We also serve as a resource for media representatives seeking reliable data and sound, nonpartisan, data-driven analyses of critical community issues. Our staff are called upon as expert guests for news radio and television programs. And we seek meetings with editorial boards when we believe their voice can add persuasion and help shape community discussion of important topics. Below you are our current media releases.

For more information, coall or text Dani Carlson at (216) 282-4583, or at dcarlson@communitysolutions.com, Eboney Thornton at (216) 781-2944, ext. 213, or at ethornton@CommunitySolutions.com.

2020

Cleveland is now the Poorest Big City in the Country Overall and Worst for Child Poverty (9/17/20)

Prices Vary Widely Across Ohio Hospitals for Same Procedures (8/23/20)

Pandemic-EBT Program Will Offer Lifeline to Thousands of Ohio Schoolchildren (5/12/20)

Community Solutions Offers Videos on Importance of Medicaid to Fight COVID19 (3/22/20)

Diversion is the Most Direct Path for Better Behavioral Health Care in Cuyahoga County: Creation of Pre-Booking, Crisis Intervention Center in Cuyahoga County Likely to Result in Better Care (3/16/20)

Procedural Medicaid errors not a reflection of enrollee fraud or abuse (01/14/20)

Community Solutions’ Statements on Multi-System Youth Action Plan (1/13/20)

2019

In Ohio, The Poorer Your Neighborhood the Shorter Your Life (12/9/19)

In Cuyahoga County, poverty disproportionately impacts people of color (11/18/19)

Ohio Legislators’ Maternal Health Efforts Recognized with Public Service Award (10/7/19)

My Brother My Sister to receive $25,000 prize (9/26/19)

Number of Uninsured Ohioans and Uninsured Children Climbing, Community Solutions President and Executive Director Releases Statement on new U.S. Census Bureau Numbers (9/10/19)

Half of all poor people in Cuyahoga County are working, but can’t support their families; Cuyahoga County’s poverty rate higher now than during Great Recession (8/7/19)

Poverty Survey Bullet Points 

The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and Community Legal Aid Press Release, Securing Stability: Legal Aid’s Lasting Impact (6/17/19)

The Center for Community Solutions Announces Ohio Health and Human Services Journalism Grant (4/8/19)

The Center for Community Solutions Disappointed by Federal Medicaid Waiver Approval, John Corlett issues statement (3/15/19)

New edition of Follow the Money focus of forum at Columbus Metropolitan Club (2/5/19)

The Center for Community Solutions welcomes new board members (1/7/19)

2018

Cleveland has vast racial disparities in income, life expectancy, birth outcomes (12/10/18)

One out of every seven Cuyahoga County residents ages 16 and 24 aren’t in school or employed, each of those disengaged youths could cost taxpayers about $44,000 each year (12/3/18)

Community Solutions’ President and Executive Director Appointed to Ohio Council on Aging (12/1/18)

AIDS Funding Collaborative welcomes Julie Patterson as new director (11/26/18)

Celebration of Human Services to discuss how important health and human services issues could be affected by November election (10/25/18)

Police Crisis Intervention Training is crucial to help those going through mental health crises (8/15/18)

Thousands with mental illnesses and substance use disorders behind bars, one man shares his story (8/15/18)

Authors of book on how to reduce poverty to speak with beneficiaries of program (7/19/18)

Programs are ongoing to reduce those with behavioral health disorders behind bars but they need more participation (7/10/18)

At least 15,500 people with severe mental illness in Ohio jails cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars (6/26/18)

Support Services Needed to keep people with Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders out of Jail (6/5/18)

Too many Ohioans with mental health, substance use disorders behind bars (5/24/18)

Ohio Medicaid Set to Defund Program for Children with Autism, Behavioral Health Issues (4/10/18)

Citizenship Question on 2020 Census is a Bad Idea, Will Likely Have a Large Impact (3/27/18)

Fact Sheets Released for Cuyahoga County, Ohio Cities (3/26/18)

Medicaid Work Requirement Could Mean Thousands Lose Coverage (2/16/18)

Community Solutions Welcomes New Members (1/11/18)

Director of Communications and Digital Strategy (1/10/18)