Meet Our Partners
Children and Youth Advocacy
A Second Home for You (ASHFY) provides transitional housing and life programs in Cleveland that are designed for young adult males between the ages of 18 – 25 years who aged out of foster care and need extra support to effectively navigate into adulthood. ASHFY tailor’s their transitional life programs to meet the unique needs of each individual. It is the mission of “A Second Home for You” to bridge the gap between foster care and adult living by assisting young adults who have aged out of the foster care system.
Primary Contact: Greg Jones, Executive Director 216.315.1876 | gcjones1028@gmail.com
C.O.O.R. is a life skills-based after-school program serving school-age youth. The program structure is group-based and focuses on character building, social-emotional learning & development, and academic enrichment. C.O.O.R. Enrichment & Mentoring Program is a community 501c(3) nonprofit organization and a movement dedicated to enlightening youth through leadership, education, and positive identity development. A growth mindset is embedded in everything we do.
Primary Contact: Pam Poe, Executive Director 216.326.1426 coor.mentoringprogram@yahoo.com
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Human Coalition is a champion of life, committed to an audacious mission: to transform our culture of death into a culture of life—to end abortion in America.
Primary Contact: Aneila Chis | 469.478.0166 | achis@huco.org
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The mentors and partners of YMG are committed to a holistic approach to teaching Leadership Development, Life Skills, advocacy for Social and Emotional Health, and curriculum-based Financial Literacy components while requiring hours of engagement to give back to one's community; this has been our call to action to the combat the current crisis in our communities and the lives of our young black males today. We understand that it takes a village, so we are also asking you to answer the call.
Primary Contact: Gary Hicks Sr., Founder, CEO | 216-509-0379 youngmengrowing@gmail.com
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Youth for Christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of God, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement.
Primary Contact: Brian Walls, Director of Operations 216.252.9881, ext. 29 | bwalls@campuslifecleveland.org
The Lighthouse is a non-profit organization that focuses on building strong relationships with kids through coaching, mentoring and sponsoring events. Their goal is to revolutionize the world one relationship at a time. What started as a bus donation is now a movement, a lifestyle of raising up people to champion the cause of Christ. For over 30 years, the Lighthouse has dreamed with families, loved on children and has been welcomed as a part of the neighborhood fabric. Along the way they have witnessed the continued and miraculous provision of God.
Primary Contact: Judy Tyreman, Volunteer Coordinator 440.759.9859 | volunteer@urbanlighthouse.org
Health Services
Removing The Stigma educates, empowers, and offers hope to individuals while removing the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide.
Primary Contact: Denise Holcomb, Executive Director /Founder 216.835.0083 | denise@rtstigma.org
Malachi House, created out of a Christian sense of ministry, serves persons who are terminally ill, without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin and without cost to the resident or family. This Home ministers to individuals who need an available caregiver, who have limited or no financial resources and are in need of special home care in the final stages of life. Their trained staff and volunteers provide spiritual, emotional and physical support with the assistance of a hospice team.
Primary Contact: Judy Ghazoul Hilow, Executive Director 216.621-8831 | jhilow@malachihouse.org
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Founder's Path
Founder’s Path is a faith-based nonprofit organization whose members have overcome alcoholism, drug addiction, and other forms of spiritual sickness. Founder’s Path brings their recovered members together with those in the community to share their experience, strength and hope through spiritual retreats and assisting in the daily struggles of those dealing with addiction.
Primary Contact: Lynell Dawson, Executive Director 216.235.2017 | lynelldawson14@gmail.com
Total Life Wellness is a 501(c)(3) organization established in 2019 by Rachel Socorro, who is the Founder and Executive Director. Their mission is simple be well and share our lived experience, strength, and hope to help others get well. Using the 252-plan created by co-founder Bronson Landrum they provide a place where people can be guided, advocated, and facilitated in holistic health and abundant living in Christ. They are the “what’s next,” after survivorship, of any form of trauma.
Primary Contact: Rachel Socorro, Executive Director 216.533.1855 | totallifewellness255@gmail.com
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Community Support
Family Connections mission is to strengthen families with young children. Their vision is to improve tomorrow's quality of life in the community by ensuring today's children are raised to be happy, healthy and self-sufficient by providing early literacy, parent support and school readiness.
Primary Contact: Beth Darmstadter, Executive Director 216.921.2023 | Bdarmstadter@familyconnections1.org
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We empower homeless women and children through safe housing and supportive services.
Primary Contact: Sheila Locatelli, Executive Director
440-945-6579 | womenofhope2007@gmail.com
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YWCA of Greater Cleveland is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Our core programs ultimately benefit the entire region of Northeast Ohio by bringing about needed change and improvement in the areas of racial equity and the advancement of women. With deep expertise and more than a century of experience, we are a respected resource and trusted authority on the issues of racial equity and the advancement of women.
Primary Contact: Margaret Sanchez, VP of Development | 216.881.6878
Seeds of Literacy is an innovative adult literacy program that provides free, one-to-one tutoring in basic education and GED prep to adults in Cleveland. Literacy is an important social ill to address, especially in the city of Cleveland where 66% of Cleveland residents ages 16 and up, are functionally illiterate.
Primary Contact: John Martin | 216.661.7950 ext. 114 | johnmartin@seedsofliteracy.org
The Haven Home was established as the family overflow shelter in 2017 to serve homeless women and their children in Cuyahoga County. The family overflow shelter exists to provide temporary emergency shelter until a bed becomes available at a family shelter.
Primary Contact: Cindy Rios, Executive Director 216.220.1902 | cindy@thehavenhome.org
Focusing on Housing & Shelter, Workforce Development, and Health & Wellness Services, Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries creates innovative programs that serve people who are homeless, youth who are at-risk, older adults who are vulnerable, people impacted by the criminal justice system and individuals with behavioral health needs.
Primary Contact: Marcella J. Brown, VP, Development and Communications 216.658.7208 x 162 | mbrown@lutheranmetro.org
The residents of Cleveland’s Garden Valley Neighborhood are some of the most socially and economically segregated in the city. Whether providing food to a grandmother who is raising her grandchildren, coaxing seniors to exercise weekly and reduce salt intake, offering free training in construction skills to help adults become more self reliant, or tutoring elementary school children to help guarantee academic success, Garden Valley Neighborhood House is meeting the needs of a community that many have associated only with violence and poverty.
Primary Contact: Jan Ridgeway, Executive Director, Emeritus 216.618.7622 | janridgeway@gmail.com