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My Dad, My Hero 24/7 Dads Program | East End Neighborhood House

Provides a parenting class for fathers. Provides help to fathers to become more responsible, committed, and engaged in their children's lives. Program includes help for new or about-to-be fathers, parent support groups, and parent counseling.

What's Here

Parent Counseling
Parent Support Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
African American Community
New Dad Parenting Programs

Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) | Ncba

Helps those minorities who are age 55 or older and of low income to improve the quality of their lives by obtaining paid employment and training. Individuals are placed in local non-profit agencies. Also will help in matters pertaining to housing information, health promotion and advocacy by giving referrals/suggestions as needed. Participants may be eligible for up to 4 years of employment.

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Job Training Formats
Senior Community Service Employment Programs
Job Finding Assistance
African American Community

Grants | United Black Fund Of Greater Cleveland

Functions as a grant making public charity providing funding to charitable organizations only which provide services to residents of greater Cleveland's communities in need. Focuses on providing funding for education including family life and cultural and arts, homelessness, crisis intervention, HIV/AIDS education, re-entry (ex-offenders), workforce development, seniors, youth and social services to African Americans. Does not fund endowments, capital grants, or individuals.

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Public Foundations
African American Community

Life Skills X Golf | Project Lift Services

Offers a program to assist in building self-confidence and self awareness in an effort to resolve past trauma, avoid substance abuse and end cycles of poverty. Program includes sessions on resolving conflict before it escalates, managing money and building credit, time management, goal-setting, effective communication, critical thinking skills for problem solving, and avoiding premature fatherhood. Program may include participation in a golf program.

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Life Skills Education
African American Community

Cuyahoga Small Business Development Center (SBDC) | Urban League Of Greater Cleveland

Provides help for those starting or wanting advice on the development of their small business. Program has two tracks: one provides a comprehensive series of classes that explores and educates participants on all aspects of starting their own business. The second track provides direct help in evaluating and expanding businesses already in existence.

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Small Business Development
African American Community

Ubiz Venture Capital | Urban League Of Greater Cleveland

Offers pre-loan counseling and technical assistance for minority and disadvantaged business owners who have growth potential but face challenges obtaining capital. Services are provided through the Urban League’s Entrepreneurship Center and partner organizations.

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African American Community
Business Financing

Lean On Me | National Alliance On Mental Illness - Greater Cleveland

Provides the opportunity for Black/African-American Greater Clevelanders to find safe support and share challenges.

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Mental Health Related Support Groups
African American Community

Minority Men'S Health Center / Minority Mens Health Center | Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Provides screening, education, and treatment for a variety of diseases that affect more men of certain races and ethnicities than their races or ethnicities appear in the population. Typical screenings include prostate cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, sickle cell anemia, and testicular cancer.

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Digital Rectal Examinations
Prostatic Specific Antigen Blood Tests
Testicular Examinations
Asian Community
Sickle Cell Screening
Diabetes Screening
Cholesterol/Triglycerides Tests
Hispanic/Latino Community
African American Community

Family First Steps | Greenleaf Family Center

Offers a prenatal support program for low-income pregnant women. Provides in home case management services through Community Health Workers (CHW) who make regular home visits throughout the duration of the pregnancy and until the child turns three (3) years old. In addition, offers support, education, and resources via a telehealth option.

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African American Community
General Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs

Life Skills Education | Pregnant With Possibilities Resource Center

Provides workshops designed to develop life skills needed to decrease infant mortality, reduce stress, accomplish goals, and make health life choices.

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Single Parents
Parenting Materials
Life Skills Education
Parenting Skills Classes
New Parents
Parent Support Groups
African American Community
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups

Senior Center - Recreation, Socialization | East End Neighborhood House

Provides a variety of recreational and social activities including arts and crafts, social groups, exercise, and community gardening.

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Social Clubs/Events
Community Gardening
Arts and Crafts Instruction
Recreational Activities/Sports
African American Community
Physical Fitness
Senior Centers

Ubuntu Leadership Parent Training | East End Neighborhood House

Provides a program to increase parenting skills through positive reinforcement techniques. Classes provide information and practice that helps establish routines, communication, builds children's self-worth, rewards and punishments, personal power, handling stress and anger, praise and self-nurturing. Limited child care available during classes. Class includes a certificate of completion. Maximum of 10 parents/class.

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Parent/Child Activity Groups
African American Community
Parenting Skills Classes

Prioritizing Us | Gathering Hope House

Offers community-based meetings and discussions for underrepresented minority populations in Lorain County. These meetings will address these groups' unique challenges in accessing mental health services and provide valuable information and resources to overcome these barriers. Focus on psychoeducation, group discussions, and hands-on activities to increase knowledge, reduce stigma, and improve access to mental health and substance abuse services.

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General Mental Health Information/Education
African American Community

Community Organizing - African American Liberation | Black Lives Matter Cleveland

Provides a mechanism to facilitate connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement through education, direct action, and community organizing. Focuses on stopping police brutality.

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Community Organizing Assistance
African American Community

Lifted Men | Project Lift Services

Offers a program to help new and experienced fathers with barriers to develop parenting skills. Curriculum includes addressing financial instability, communication issues and negative thought patterns to overcome in order to participate in a meaningful way in their children's lives.

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African American Community
Parenting Skills Classes

Simba Mentoring Program | Franklin County Children Services

Program is based on Africentric mentoring and rites of passage. Simba matches African American male youths with African American men from the community to act as role models and give friendship, support, and guidance to the young men. Mentors are assigned for a minimum of six months.

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African American Community
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs

Discrimination Assistance | Naacp Cleveland Branch

Seeks to resolve complaints of racial discrimination mainly in housing, employment, clubs or associations, and education. Does not provide legal assistance. Will also seek to resolve complaints on the basis of religion, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, sex, disability, age, military status, and marital or familial status.

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African American Community
Club Membership Discrimination Assistance
Employment Discrimination Assistance
Education Discrimination Assistance
Housing Discrimination Assistance

General Health Education Programs For African American Community | Center For Closing The Health Gap

Provides heatlh education programs and events, and leads advocacy efforts for health issues and policy initiatives to increase awareness of racial health disparities in Greater Cincinnati.

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General Health Education Programs
African American Community

Africana Studies Lecture Series | Cleveland State University

Provides an annual black experience cultural series for the community with lectures by speakers, the creative work of visual and performing artists, videos, and film presentations.

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Public Lectures/Discussions
Dance Performances
African American Community
Music Performances
Film Presentations

Academic Enrichment/Mentoring For Youth | 100 Black Men Of Greater Cleveland

Offers an academic enrichment and social responsibility program for youth to participate in projects that are led by mentors and are designed to teach life skills, promote self-discipline, self-respect, and personal responsibility, and provide educational experiences and exposure to different careers. May offer counseling and tutoring as part of this program. Parents are encouraged to participate.

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African American Community
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
Social Responsibility Programs

Counseling | Village Of Healing

Provides culturally appropriate mental health counseling for a variety of conditions, including bereavement, mood disorders in pregnancy and postpartum, relationship work, teen parenting, and general counseling to adjust to life transitions.

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African American Community
General Counseling Services
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment

Fairfax Workforce Development Program | Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation

Recruits, screens, and trains residents to successfully submit employment applications. Applicant services include: soft skill interview training, skills for successful employment, computer/technology training classes, mentoring and career coaching. Also works with local employees to host neighborhood hiring events.

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Job Training Formats
Prejob Guidance
African American Community
Career Awareness

Sisterhood / Summer Of Sisterhood | West Side Community House

Provides an after school learning lab with computers, reading materials, and tutors. Overall focus is on literacy. Includes: service learning, college and career exploration, health and wellness, social skills and self-esteem, recreation trips, among other services. Also offers a competitive summer arts program where girls work with professional artist/teachers in several areas of the arts including: music and poetry composition, creative writing, dance, acting, or graphic design. Girls write music and lyrics, choreograph, perform, and record a CD of their work. Live performance at end of summer.

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Team Building Activities
Music Instruction
Tutoring Services
Acting Instruction
Writing Instruction
Day Camps
Physical Fitness
Music Groups
Yoga
Youth Community Service Programs
Arts and Crafts Instruction
After School Meal Programs
Dance Instruction
African American Community

Young African American Women Prevention Program (YAAW) | The Centers For Families And Children

Provides a substance abuse prevention program that incorporates arts activities to reduce risk-taking behaviors of African American teenaged girls.

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African American Community
Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention

Wisdom Keepers - Health, Forms | East End Neighborhood House

Provides information and assistance in completing forms to apply for various benefits and entitlements they may be eligible for. Also provides basic information about income taxes, as well as State, Federal, and local Income Tax forms. Provides blood pressure screening and one on one evaluations from the agency staff, assessing needs around food, personal care, and other urgent matters.

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Secretarial Assistance
Benefits and Services Assistance
Blood Pressure Screening
African American Community