With demand rising for help with depression, anger, suicidal urges, and many other behavioral problems, The Centers fills a gap in services with two urgent cares focused on mental health.
As the November 2022 elections approach, volunteers from many organizations are expanding registration efforts around the area, trying to bulk up Cleveland’s already strong registration rolls and bolster weak turnouts. They’re helping people fill out registration cards and absentee ballot applications at schools, festivals, outdoor shows, jails, homeless campsites, and elsewhere.
Samira Malone has become the first director and employee of the Cleveland Tree Coalition, which hopes to reforest the Forest City.
After decades of decline, many government agencies and nonprofits are trying to replenish the Forest City’s trees, especially in the barest neighborhoods, and especially this month, when the 150th anniversary of Arbor Day falls on Friday.
Huang, the planning department’s first female director and first Asian-American director, hopes not so much to develop the city as to help residents develop it. “Residents should have the opportunity to determine the future of their neighborhoods.”
Ayonna Blue Donald spent about four years as Cleveland’s Building and Housing Director. Now, she’s fighting to secure equitable and affordable housing in Ohio with national nonprofit Enterprise Community Partners.
The leaders like to say they’re “E and E,” which means “emerging and experienced.” They vary not just in age and other demographics but in their careers, which span governments, businesses, universities, and philanthropies.
Marion Anita Gardner is a retired machinist, a survivor of 15 brain surgeries, a community center founder and leader, and a fill-in for a convicted councilman. Grinning and glaring, praising and panning, she always speaks her mind.
A historic parade returned from a year’s hiatus this Labor Day, drawing political candidates from as far away as Cincinnati and as far back as 1997 for elections as far ahead as 14 months.
Dennis Kucinich, once the youngest mayor ever of a big U.S. city, is bidding to become Cleveland’s oldest. “Time is an illusion to me,” the former mayor, state senator, and congressman said in a recent interview. “I don’t give it any thought at all.”
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