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Neighborhood Family Supportive Services | East End Neighborhood House

Provides the opportunity to get assistance with issues related to parenting, to apply for needed benefits, to participate in a job training program with the goal of employment and to discuss with a case manager a plan for family success. Service provided by professional social workers. Includes assistance with becoming a foster or adoptive parent, parenting skills for foster parents, adoption and foster care support groups and life skills education.

What's Here

Parenting Skills Classes
Adoption/Foster Care/Kinship Care Issues
Job Training Formats
Career Awareness
Case/Care Management
African American Community
Life Skills Education
Foster Parents
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Parenting Issues
Benefits Screening
Adoption Information/Referrals
Job Finding Assistance

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.

What's Here

African American Community
Parent/Child Activity Groups
Parenting Skills Classes

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.

What's Here

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

What's Here

African American Community
Community Organizing Assistance

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.

What's Here

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

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.

What's Here

Adult/Child Mentoring Programs
African American Community

Queens Village Akron | Project Ujima

Provides a supportive community of African American women who come together to relax, repower, and take care of themselves and each other.

What's Here

African American Community
Parent Support Groups

Museum | National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center

Displays exhibitions and artifacts and provides tours and education programs on African American history and culture.

What's Here

African American Community
Museums
Diversity Awareness Training
History Museums

Behavioral Health - African American Males | Project Lift Services

Provides counseling, case management, family and group therapy and crisis intervention services on a short-term basis for clients who demonstrate a need for support beyond prevention. Service includes counseling to deal with bereavement and trauma issues.

What's Here

African American Community
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Psychiatric Case Management
General Counseling Services

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.

What's Here

African American Community
Parenting Skills Classes

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.

What's Here

African American Community
Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention

African Dance At The Mu | Karamu House

Offers a dance class that focuses on traditional West African rhythms and dance techniques.

What's Here

African American Community
Dance Instruction

East End'S Foster Grandparent Program | East End Neighborhood House

Provides opportunities for older adults to give support and care to children who have special needs in school and daycare settings. Participants receive a small stipend, an annual physical examination, accident and liability insurance and meals during service hours.

What's Here

African American Community
Intergenerational Programs

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.

What's Here

African American Community
Public Foundations

Karamu Arts Academy | Karamu House

Provides performing arts instruction for lifelong learners.

What's Here

Arts and Crafts Instruction
African American Community
Music Instruction
Dance Instruction
Acting Instruction

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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African American Community
Small Business Development

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

Howard A. Mims African American Cultural Center | Cleveland State University

Provides an on-campus cultural heritage center featuring exhibits and programming about African, African-American, and African Diaspora history, life and culture. Offerings include workshops, films, videos and other educational programming related to the subject area. Provides meeting space for rent.

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Meeting Space
Art Galleries/Exhibits
African American Community

College Scholarship Administration | United Negro College Fund

Agency helps administer and disburse scholarship funds. Also assists minority youth who wish to obtain scholarships.

What's Here

College/University Entrance Support
Asian Community
Middle East Community
Hispanic/Latino Community
African American Community
Native American Community
Pacific Oceanic Community

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.

What's Here

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

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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Business Financing
African American Community

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

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

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

Malaika Mentoring Program | Franklin County Children Services

An Africentric mentoring program committed to affirming the positive aspects of childhood while easing the transition to womanhood. Matches African American women to act as role models for African American girls. Mentor is assigned for a minimum of 6 months.

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African American Community
Adult/Child Mentoring Programs