Formed in December of 2019, the co-op has a long-term goal to open a community-owned, full-service laundromat to offer better accessibility to residents in the neighborhood, as well as an opportunity for upward mobility and building financial stability.
Refugee Response, a nonprofit organization that empowers refugees resettled in Northeast Ohio to thrive in their new home, and Facing History and Ourselves, a group that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and students to stand up to bigotry and hate, are relocating to the Urban Community School campus.
It’s no secret that the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected minority-owned businesses. Recently, Shaker Heights launched a grant program to help them with health and safety improvements, PPE, and online marketing.
As Cleveland schools continue with remote learning, the district has experienced a pandemic exodus—2,252 students left between October 2019 and October 2020. Some parents are transferring their children to private Catholic schools for a strictly in-person education, despite the pandemic risks.
The pandemic has tested the strength of the community, but the care shown by many Clevelanders who came to the aid of their neighbors has been a bright spot. In truth, the foot soldiers of this hyper local care giving have been working tirelessly and away from the spotlight for years.
Over the past three years, infant mortality among Black children born in Cuyahoga County has improved. During the same time, an ecosystem of Black healthcare and social service providers has emerged. Pregnant with Possibilities is a Black-led, Black-serving organization applying cultural competence to solving the issue of racial healthcare disparities.
In just over a month, Cleveland Metro School kids will pass a concerning milestone: a year since the schools shut down. A year of learning 100% online. Will Cleveland schools be the last in the state to reopen? Is online learning working? Does anyone even care?
Slavic Village residents face mounds of paperwork and uncooperative landlords as they try to stave off eviction. Housing advocates are trying to keep them from slipping through the cracks.
On a crisp fall day, a small group of masked community researchers fanned out on the streets of Slavic Village to ask residents a few questions about their sex lives. The effort was one part of a plan to understand why the Cleveland neighborhood has seen higher levels of new HIV cases diagnosed over the past five years, despite an overall downward trend in Cuyahoga County.
In 2020, the National Alliance for Caregiving reported that 53 million Americans were providing unpaid care to an adult with a health or functional need. After COVID-19 hit, caregivers had to make some hard choices—halt the home care services their loved ones depend on, or risk health and safety at home with care workers coming in for care.
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