The region’s only addiction recovery center serving single, married, pregnant, and women with children has chosen veteran clinical and administrative officer Cassidy Lekan to lead the agency.
First Step Home names new CEO
Category: Social Services
Local Meals on Wheels, 55 North merge — boosting senior services
Meals on Wheels Southwest OH & Northern KY and 55 North announced Dec. 15 their merger to improve services for more than 11,000 area seniors.
UC, Caracole make drug impact
New research from the University of Cincinnati, in partnership with local nonprofit Caracole, shows a self-service vending machine filled with harm reduction supplies such as naloxone helped prevent overdoses and contributed to Hamilton County’s overdose deaths decreasing in 2021.
Rhinegeist serving more than beer
Grant to fund 30 new health workers
Health Care Access Now has received $100,000 from the Ohio Department of Health to help it add another 30 community health workers to southwest Ohio.
Redwood gets nearly $1M grant
Easterseals Redwood received a nearly $1 million grant for improving the organization’s long-time Fort Mitchell campus.
Talbert leader named SVDP top exec
A member of Talbert House’s 10-member executive team will take over the top job at St. Vincent de Paul-Cincinnati.
Talbert House names Addy chair
Weir changing United Way as philanthropy shifts
One recent evening, a woman knocked on my door and asked for money. I could have told her to get lost. Or decided she was scamming me. Or I could have given her a little money to get something to eat, or recommend she go somewhere with more help.
Sisters end deep ties with 5 ministries
A nearly 200-year-old ministry of the Catholic church in Greater Cincinnati is ending its sponsorship of five well-known organizations throughout the region, citing a shortage of volunteer leaders and other resources.