Healthier neighborhoods is the goal of upcoming surveys in Kinsman, Central, Buckeye
The surveys, called community health needs assessments, aim to identify social and environmental factors that impact health outcomes.
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A year of in-depth, local reporting: The Land’s top 20 stories of 2021
The Land has been around for more than one year now. In our brief lifetime, we’ve published hundreds of stories, some of which have had rippling impacts through Cleveland.
Severe Covid-19 cases surge at Cleveland hospitals
One year after the first Ohioans received the vaccine, Cleveland hospitals are facing an unprecedented surge of severe Covid-19 cases.
The Land accepted into Report for America’s journalism support program
With assistance from Report for America, The Land will hire a new reporter next year to bolster our in-depth, community-driven reporting.
New mobile clinics aim to tear down barriers to quality healthcare
Cleveland City Council authorized the city’s public health department to outfit two trucks as mobile clinics that will bring health care services to residents.
Empowering healing in Central: Community leaders foster conversations about mental health, spirituality
About 30 Clevelanders gathered inside a nondescript strip mall storefront in Central last Wednesday for a night of vulnerability. They were there for what they called “Ghetto Therapy,” a series of raw conversations about spirituality, mental health, and healing.
The Land and NEOSOJO distinguished in Local Independent Online News awards
The Land and the Northeast Ohio Solutions Journalism Collaborative (NEOSOJO) were named finalists in the “Best Coronavirus Coverage” category of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers’ Local Journalism Awards.
The Land selected for Meta Journalism Project
The Land is honored to be among the 30 newsrooms nationwide selected for the Meta Journalism Project’s US Reader Revenue Accelerator program, which begins later this month.
Reflection: Racial disparities still plague health care. The fact that I’m writing about it in 2021 is telling.
Calling out racial disparities does not equate to neglecting progress made toward greater racial equity, and yet, as it almost always seems to, that point of contention came up during a roundtable discussion about medical mistrust on Monday hosted by Case Western Reserve University’s branch of Universal Health Aid.
Photos: Tamir’s Campaign for Justice calls on officials to reopen civil rights case
More than 50 demonstrators marched to the Cuyahoga County Justice Center, where Samaria Rice and other community organizers called on Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley and other state and federal authorities to reopen a case against the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, Samaria’s son.
