Explore topics and analysis from Community Solutions

Public testimony and policy analysis are the foundations of our policy advocacy work. Research includes reports, consulting, data analysis, and fact sheets. Browse our work by topic, type, or author.

Search

Filters + Tags
Behavioral Health
Article
COVID-19

Ohioans encouraged to use mental health resources at Governor's press conference

Community Solutions Team
May 6, 2020
Article
COVID-19

Governor releases new guidelines for COVID-19 testing priorities

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy

Friday webinar series recap: How counties & case workers are responding to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
State Budget

The ever-expanding role of the American educator

Community Solutions Team
May 5, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

May 1 Friday Webinar: Counties and Caseworkers Respond to COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
Maternal & Infant Health
Article
COVID-19

Giving birth while social distancing changes everything

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19
Workforce

Cuyahoga County Executive announces employee furloughs, hiring freeze and expected budget cuts

Community Solutions Team
May 1, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

Medicaid and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 30, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

What to watch for: The effect of the pandemic on Cuyahoga County’s finances

Community Solutions Team
April 27, 2020
Article
COVID-19

Columbus Metropolitan Club Special Report: Coronavirus exposes disparities

Community Solutions Team
April 27, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

April 24 Friday Webinar: Medicaid and COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Older Adults
Article
COVID-19

COVID-19 and long-term care facilities, be kind

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Criminal + Legal
Homelessness

Congregate living in the time of COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 24, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Public testimony
COVID-19

April 22: Letter to the Ohio Congressional Delegation

John R. Corlett
April 22, 2020
Older Adults
Article
COVID-19

April 21 Webinar: Social Isolation and Seniors in the Pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19

Letter to Ohio's General Assembly

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Food Insecurity

April 17 Friday Webinar: COVID and Food Access

Community Solutions Team
April 17, 2020
Article
COVID-19
Data

Survey: How has COVID-19 affected you and the people you serve?

Community Solutions Team
April 12, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
SNAP P-EBT EBT

COVID-19 & Emergency SNAP Allotments: What You Need to Know

Rachel Cahill
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Children and Youth
COVID-19

Coronavirus and child welfare

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Children and Youth
County Policy
COVID-19

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
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Cuyahoga County presents racial breakdown of COVID-19 cases, 746 cases in the county, 20 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 10, 2020
Article
COVID-19

Voting during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19
Workforce

Cuyahoga County gets restraining order to close non-essential business that had stayed open

Community Solutions Team
April 8, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
SNAP P-EBT EBT

Pandemic EBT: What it would provide for Ohio’s school children

Rachel Cahill
April 8, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
SNAP P-EBT EBT

SNAP during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
April 7, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

“Masks are not a substitute for social distancing.” 574 sick in Cuyahoga County, 15 dead

Community Solutions Team
April 6, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

April 3 Friday Webinar: Policy and Potential Changes

Community Solutions Team
April 3, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

COVID-19: How to Get and Give Help

Community Solutions Team
April 2, 2020
Research
COVID-19

COVID19: Policy

Community Solutions Team
April 2, 2020
Research
County Policy
COVID-19

COVID-19 and Cuyahoga County

Community Solutions Team
April 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
SNAP P-EBT EBT
Workforce

Seeking Unemployment Insurance? Remember to apply for SNAP too.

Rachel Cahill
April 1, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

Flatten the curve, raise the bar: The role of telehealth in the pandemic

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

409 lab-confirmed cases in Cuyahoga County, death total doubles to 8 since Monday

Community Solutions Team
April 1, 2020
Older Adults
Article
COVID-19

Medicaid and COVID19: How to use Home & Community-Based Services waivers

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Cuyahoga County Executive discusses county’s COVID-19 response at City Club forum

Community Solutions Team
March 31, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Data

VIDEO: Census is important despite, and because of, pandemic

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

"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
Article
Data

A (short) history of the race question on the decennial census

Community Solutions Team
March 30, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Cuyahoga County to buy $1 million in PPE, start small business fund

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Research
Data

Census 2020

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

Benefit changes: Redeterminations, requirements affected by coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
State Budget

Ohio General Assembly unanimously passes emergency legislation (House Bill 197)

Tara Britton
March 27, 2020
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Cuyahoga County Board of Health says this is crucial week for the county’s virus fight

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Policy recommendations to flatten the coronavirus curve

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Article
COVID-19

When we’re on the other side…

Community Solutions Team
March 25, 2020
Medicaid
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Cuyahoga County Board of Health: Testing reserved for the most sick, 99 cases in the county

Community Solutions Team
March 24, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

Medicaid and COVID19: Positives, and what we hope to see moving forward

Community Solutions Team
March 22, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
COVID-19

Human Services Advocacy Network webinar attendees hear from Upchurch and Crossman

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Older Adults
Article
COVID-19

Preventing social isolation when the senior center closes

Community Solutions Team
March 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Data

The census in the season of Coronavirus

Community Solutions Team
March 19, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Food Insecurity
Workforce

How to get food assistance, unemployment benefits

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19
Food Insecurity

How to help your local foodbank during COVID-19

Community Solutions Team
March 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
COVID-19

Ohio needs emergency health & human services Coronavirus policy changes

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Children and Youth
COVID-19
Food Insecurity
SNAP P-EBT EBT

How a pandemic affects vulnerable populations

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Behavioral Health
Research
Criminal + Legal

Pre-Booking Crisis Intervention

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Behavioral Health
Public testimony
Criminal + Legal

Request for Information Cuyahoga County Diversion Continuum

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy

Primary races, levies on the ballot March 17

Community Solutions Team
March 16, 2020
Medicaid
Article
COVID-19

Coronavirus: How Ohio Medicaid can help flatten the curve

Community Solutions Team
March 13, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Data
Workforce

Census Jobs – How might income from a census job impact government assistance eligibility?

Community Solutions Team
March 3, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy

17 Counties Have Health and Social Services Levies on the Primary Ballot

Emily Campbell
March 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
OhioRISE

MSY action plan sets a path forward

Tara Britton
March 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Children and Youth
County Policy
Homelessness

Cuyahoga County HHSA committee approves foster children, homeless services contracts

Community Solutions Team
February 24, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Calling out systemic racial disparities and responding to inequality: What will our legacy be?

Community Solutions Team
February 24, 2020
Article
County Policy
Criminal + Legal
Workforce

Committee approves public funding for temporary staffing agency serving people recently released from prison

Community Solutions Team
February 19, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
State Budget

Unequal under the law: State control of social services perpetuates inequality

Community Solutions Team
February 18, 2020
Research

Ohio Statehouse primaries: Who's running and where?

Community Solutions Team
February 18, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
Children and Youth

Minority students and special education

Community Solutions Team
February 10, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy

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
Article
Children and Youth
County Policy

Cuyahoga County HHSA committee approves contracts for foster care and senior services

Community Solutions Team
February 4, 2020
Behavioral Health
Article
Criminal + Legal
Opioid Epidemic

How the criminalization of mental illness and substance use disorders impacts African-Americans in Ohio

Community Solutions Team
February 3, 2020
Behavioral Health
Article
Caregiving

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
Article
SNAP P-EBT EBT

SNAP Benefits: Keeping Track of the Proposed Changes

Community Solutions Team
January 27, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
County Policy
Homelessness
OhioRISE

Homeless services, multi-system youth contracts approved by health and human services committee

Community Solutions Team
January 27, 2020
Article
County Policy

GCRTA CEO discusses future of public transportation with Human Services Advocacy Network

Community Solutions Team
January 21, 2020
Behavioral Health
Article
Data
Opioid Epidemic

Data shows drop in unintentional drug overdose deaths in 2018

Tara Britton
January 21, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article
SNAP P-EBT EBT

Impact SNAP changes will have on Ohio, Medicaid

Community Solutions Team
January 13, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

The status of Ohio’s women: Access to safety-net family planning service

Community Solutions Team
January 6, 2020
Article

John Corlett's top 10 reports from 2019

Community Solutions Team
December 30, 2019
Article

What Community Solutions needs to know

Community Solutions Team
December 23, 2019
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

Subscribe to our newsletter

5 Things you need to know arrives on Mondays with the latest articles, events, and advocacy developments in Ohio

Explore the fact sheets

We make data digestible. Community Solutions produces fact sheets highlighting demographic, health, and social indicators for communities around Ohio. We examine data indicators within poverty, education, employment, income, health outcomes, and public benefit programs. Policymakers and direct service organizations use this resource to better understand the communities they serve and advocate for improved health and social conditions around the state.

Status of Women

Ohio enjoys a high rate of health care coverage, at 95%. Yet maternal health challenges continue to impact the health of women and their families. Women are more likely to be caregivers, and Ohio mothers work at rates higher than the national average. Even when working, Ohio women with children are more likely to live in poverty. Having children increases the likelihood of living in poverty by four-fold. Data released in 2023.

Geauga County Municipalities

These fact sheets and data profiles highlight demographic, health, and social indicators in the cities, townships, and villages of Geauga County. The fact sheets summarize and the data profiles provide extensive information about each Municipality on employment and income, poverty, education, housing, and health. Data released in 2024.

Lake County Municipalities

These fact sheets and data profiles highlight demographic, health, and social indicators in the cities, townships, and villages of Lake County. The fact sheets summarize and the data profiles provide extensive information about each Municipality on employment and income, poverty, education, housing, and health. Data released in 2024.

Cuyahoga County Municipalities

These fact sheets and data profiles highlight demographic, health, and social indicators in the cities, townships, and villages of Cuyahoga County. The fact sheets summarize and the data profiles provide extensive information about each Municipality on employment and income, poverty, education, housing, and health. Data released 2018 and 2024.

Cleveland Neighborhoods

City of Cleveland Neighborhoods fact sheets and data profiles highlight demographic, health, and social indicators in the City of Cleveland. The fact sheets summarize and the data profiles provide extensive information about each neighborhood on employment and income, poverty, education, housing and health. Data released in 2016, 2021, and 2024.

Cuyahoga County Council Districts

Cuyahoga Council District fact sheets highlight demographic, health, and social indicators in the City of Cleveland. The fact sheets summarize and the data profiles provide extensive information about each district on employment and income, poverty, education, housing, and health. Data released 2017 and 2024.