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Cuyahoga County, partners to donate $200,000 to domestic violence center, Budish also announces new program that matches donors and needy families

Community Solutions Team
April 26, 2020
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“We understand when we call that people are scared…we want to help track [COVID-19] down and understand who may be at risk.” 1,094 cases in Cuyahoga County, 67 deaths due to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 26, 2020
Medicaid
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April 24 Friday Webinar: Medicaid and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Older Adults
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COVID-19 and long-term care facilities, be kind

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Congregate living in the time of COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Older Adults
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April 21 Webinar: Social Isolation and Seniors in the Pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 21, 2020
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“We certainly can't flip a switch that will that will certainly lead to more infections and more deaths,” 1,028 cases in Cuyahoga County, 56 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 21, 2020
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County flags to fly at half-staff in honor of COVID-19 victims, grants and loans announced for small businesses

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Letter to Ohio's General Assembly

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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April 17 Friday Webinar: COVID and Food Access

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
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“We're going to be living with COVID-19 for some time” health commissioner says: 927 cases in Cuyahoga County, 42 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
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“Don’t get too comfortable with the fact that we are making progress,” 845 cases in Cuyahoga County, 25 deaths

Community Solutions Team
April 14, 2020
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Survey: How has COVID-19 affected you and the people you serve?

Community Solutions Team
April 12, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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COVID-19 & Emergency SNAP Allotments: What You Need to Know

Rachel Cahill
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Coronavirus and child welfare

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County, Board of Elections provides 300 hotspots to CMSD students, AT&T to give two months free internet

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
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Cuyahoga County presents racial breakdown of COVID-19 cases, 746 cases in the county, 20 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
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Voting during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
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Cuyahoga County gets restraining order to close non-essential business that had stayed open

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
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647 cases, 20 deaths in Cuyahoga County, Cuyahoga County is doing a great job flattening the curve but now’s not the time to let up

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Pandemic EBT: What it would provide for Ohio’s school children

Rachel Cahill
April 8, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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SNAP during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 7, 2020
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“Masks are not a substitute for social distancing.” 574 sick in Cuyahoga County, 15 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 6, 2020
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513 cases in Cuyahoga County, 10 deaths. ‘We're not gonna get on the other side of this curve unless you stay home’

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
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Six Cuyahoga County inmates test positive for COVID-19, investigation into who inmates had close contact with underway

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
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April 3 Friday Webinar: Policy and Potential Changes

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
Medicaid
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COVID-19: How to Get and Give Help

Community Solutions Team
April 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Seeking Unemployment Insurance? Remember to apply for SNAP too.

Rachel Cahill
April 1, 2020
Medicaid
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Flatten the curve, raise the bar: The role of telehealth in the pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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409 lab-confirmed cases in Cuyahoga County, death total doubles to 8 since Monday

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Older Adults
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Medicaid and COVID19: How to use Home & Community-Based Services waivers

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County Executive discusses county’s COVID-19 response at City Club forum

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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VIDEO: Census is important despite, and because of, pandemic

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
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If we aren’t all counted, Ohio will have its smallest Congressional delegation in 200 years

Emily Campbell
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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"It’s important that no one is left behind," Cuyahoga County medical director explains county strategy as COVID19 cases rise

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
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A (short) history of the race question on the decennial census

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County to buy $1 million in PPE, start small business fund

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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More than 200 cases of COVID19 in Cuyahoga County, "We need you to please listen...or we are going to have problems in our hospital capacity.”

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Medicaid
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Benefit changes: Redeterminations, requirements affected by coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio General Assembly unanimously passes emergency legislation (House Bill 197)

Tara Britton
March 27, 2020
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Cuyahoga County Board of Health says this is crucial week for the county’s virus fight

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
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Policy recommendations to flatten the coronavirus curve

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
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When we’re on the other side…

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
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Cuyahoga County Board of Health: Testing reserved for the most sick, 99 cases in the county

Community Solutions Team
March 24, 2020
Medicaid
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Medicaid and COVID19: Positives, and what we hope to see moving forward

Community Solutions Team
March 22, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Human Services Advocacy Network webinar attendees hear from Upchurch and Crossman

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Older Adults
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Preventing social isolation when the senior center closes

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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The census in the season of Coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 19, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

How to get food assistance, unemployment benefits

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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How to help your local foodbank during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio needs emergency health & human services Coronavirus policy changes

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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How a pandemic affects vulnerable populations

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Primary races, levies on the ballot March 17

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Medicaid
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Coronavirus: How Ohio Medicaid can help flatten the curve

Community Solutions Team
March 13, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Census Jobs – How might income from a census job impact government assistance eligibility?

Community Solutions Team
March 3, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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17 Counties Have Health and Social Services Levies on the Primary Ballot

Emily Campbell
March 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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MSY action plan sets a path forward

Tara Britton
March 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County HHSA committee approves foster children, homeless services contracts

Community Solutions Team
February 24, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Calling out systemic racial disparities and responding to inequality: What will our legacy be?

Community Solutions Team
February 24, 2020
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Committee approves public funding for temporary staffing agency serving people recently released from prison

Community Solutions Team
February 19, 2020
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AIDS Funding Collaborative will award grants; releases strategic plan focused on ending HIV epidemic

Julie Patterson
February 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Unequal under the law: State control of social services perpetuates inequality

Community Solutions Team
February 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Minority students and special education

Community Solutions Team
February 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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The Center for Community Solutions Board of Directors endorses March 17 Cuyahoga County health and human services levy

Community Solutions Team
February 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Cuyahoga County HHSA committee approves contracts for foster care and senior services

Community Solutions Team
February 4, 2020
Behavioral Health
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How the criminalization of mental illness and substance use disorders impacts African-Americans in Ohio

Community Solutions Team
February 3, 2020
Behavioral Health
Article

Social isolation: A quiet social determinant of health

Community Solutions Team
February 3, 2020
Medicaid
Article

New Medicaid block grant waiver: Risk disguised as flexibility

Community Solutions Team
February 3, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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SNAP Benefits: Keeping Track of the Proposed Changes

Community Solutions Team
January 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Homeless services, multi-system youth contracts approved by health and human services committee

Community Solutions Team
January 27, 2020
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GCRTA CEO discusses future of public transportation with Human Services Advocacy Network

Community Solutions Team
January 21, 2020
Behavioral Health
Article

Data shows drop in unintentional drug overdose deaths in 2018

Tara Britton
January 21, 2020
Medicaid
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Ohio Medicaid’s end-of-year report reveals problems stemming from eligibility system; what does it mean and how will it be addressed?

Tara Britton
January 15, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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Impact SNAP changes will have on Ohio, Medicaid

Community Solutions Team
January 13, 2020
Medicaid
Article

Medicaid enrollees asked state for more collaboration from managed care plans and providers. Will they listen?

Community Solutions Team
January 13, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
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The status of Ohio’s women: Access to safety-net family planning service

Community Solutions Team
January 6, 2020
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John Corlett's top 10 reports from 2019

Community Solutions Team
December 30, 2019
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What Community Solutions needs to know

Community Solutions Team
December 23, 2019
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Cuyahoga County budget passes

Community Solutions Team
December 23, 2019
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Akron Children's Hospital: Community Health Needs Assessment

Community Solutions Team
December 11, 2019
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Nearly $2 million in contracts approved by Cuyahoga County HHSA Committee

Community Solutions Team
December 9, 2019
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Health and human services agencies present budget cases to Cuyahoga County Council

Community Solutions Team
December 2, 2019
Maternal & Infant Health
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Report on Ohio's maternal deaths provides look at contributing factors, makes recommendations for improvement

Tara Britton
December 2, 2019
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Harm reduction, drug users’ health take center stage at state HIV planning meeting

Community Solutions Team
November 25, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty Speaks 2019: Racial Disparities

Emily Campbell
November 18, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
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Ohio latest state to tackle economics of menstruation

Community Solutions Team
November 11, 2019
Older Adults
Article

The Council on Older Persons advocates, leads on senior issues

Community Solutions Team
November 11, 2019
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AIDS Funding Collaborative announces 2019 grants

Julie Patterson
November 11, 2019
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Ambulance trouble in Mahoning County: Behind a story funded by a Community Solutions journalism grant

Community Solutions Team
November 11, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
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Election Update: Ohio voters overwhelmingly approve health and social service levies. All but 2 Pass!

Emily Campbell
November 6, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Nearly half of all Ohio counties have a health or social service levy on the ballot

Emily Campbell
November 4, 2019
Older Adults
Article

County council HHSA committee hears update as foster care costs soar

Community Solutions Team
November 4, 2019
Medicaid
Article

Medicaid Substance Use Disorder waiver is a critical tool

Community Solutions Team
October 28, 2019
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Volunteers teach, advocate, protect, empower and keep hope alive

Community Solutions Team
October 21, 2019
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Why I’m nervous about the census

Community Solutions Team
October 21, 2019
Maternal & Infant Health
Article

Ohio awarded federal grants to address, study maternal health

Tara Britton
October 21, 2019
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Cuyahoga County executive releases new budget recommendations

Community Solutions Team
October 14, 2019
Behavioral Health
Article

Ohio families and advocates praise Governor's MSY funding announcement

Community Solutions Team
October 14, 2019
Maternal & Infant Health
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Racial disparities in infant mortality focus of 'Toxic: A Black Woman's Story'

Emily Muttillo
October 7, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Ohio’s single-mom households more likely to live in poverty than single dads, what does this mean for kids?

Emily Campbell
October 7, 2019
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