President of @CommunitySols

Cleveland, OH
Joined December 2014
Its my last day as @CommunitySols Executive Director and my laptop said it needed to reboot, should I take this as a sign?
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I guess my career as a health care advocate began in 1974 when I wrote to then Senator Edward Kennedy about national health insurance
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be careful out there❄️❄️❄️❄️
Lake effect snow is about to come ashore in Lorain County and western Cuyahoga County. The more intense part of the band further east that dropped over 11" in Lake Co. continues to drift southward through eastern Cuyahoga and Geauga counties. #ohwx #lakeeffect #lakeeffectsnow
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It's email Tuesday, be generous
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I'm down to my final week as @CommunitySolsED, on Friday, Emily Campbell takes over this spot; today's edition of 5⃣ Things You Need to Know highlights🔟of my favorite pieces of written work by my @CommunitySols colleagues this past year
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Emily Campbell makes the case that more agencies and organizations should be collecting service data broken down by race and other demographic characteristics so that we can make sure that interventions are working across demographic groups communitysolutions.com/we-ca…
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.@MeeksCahill laid out the facts of staggering reductions in federal anti-hunger aid in Ohio. Pandemic-era aid had greatly reduced food insecurity in Ohio, but Cahill said families with children and older adults stood to lose the most communitysolutions.com/feder…
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Eboney Thornton explored the good work of the @pepcleveland and how they were attempting to disrupt systemic racism via the behavioral health system communitysolutions.com/pep-i…
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A remembrance of Gayle Channing Tenenbaum, Ohio’s premier champion for children & families who passed away in 2023 Gayle dedicated 40+ years to all aspects of human services and was known as the go-to champion for children & family issues. I miss her communitysolutions.com/a-tri…
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Will Tarter did an interview with Dr. Roderick Harris who had succeeded former county health commissioner Terry Allan. He reflected on his first year on the job. communitysolutions.com/a-con…
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Alex Dorman examined how food insecurity affects different state house and state senate districts. Finding especially high percentages of food insecurity in those communities along the Ohio River and in urban communities communitysolutions.com/what-…
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.@tarabritton121 examines how the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, a welfare reform era program, operates in Ohio and how Ohio spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year. communitysolutions.com/tanf-…
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I nerded out when I read Kyle Thompson’s piece on how Ohio’s public benefit programs were harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in their eligibility systems. communitysolutions.com/bots-…
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Angela Maher’s piece on struggles being faced by family caregivers, especially sandwich caregivers—those caring for an older adult while also raising a child or a grandchild—touched a nerve with lots of readers who face similar struggles communitysolutions.com/sandw…
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Julie Patterson of the AIDS Funding Collaborative raised the alarm about funding cuts that U.S. House Republicans were proposing for programs intended to combat HIV/AIDS communitysolutions.com/hiv-f…
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