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Catholic Charities Services, La Providencia Hispanic Services

3135 Euclid Avenue, Suite 202, Cleveland, Ohio 44115

216-391-2064 x 12 | fax: 216-391-8946

clevelandcatholiccharities.org

• Executive Director Maureen Dee
• OUR MISSION Continue the mission of Jesus by responding to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
• PROGRAMS (Services specific to the Hispanic community)
  • Outpatient Alcohol and Other Drug treatment for Hispanic men, women and/or youth. These include diagnostic assessment, case management, group and individual counseling, and crisis intervention. Also a variety of other services and supports for the Hispanic/Latino client, including domestic violence education groups (for victims and for perpetrators), outpatient mental health assessment and counseling, employment services, services in area Cleveland schools, summer youth programming, etc.
  • Location: 2012 W. 25th Street, 5th floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44113
  • Director: Ramonita Rodriguez Johnson, LSW, LICDC, OCPS
  • 216-696-2197 x 11 |fax: 216-696-2088
• ADDITIONAL SERVICES to the Hispanic/Latino client/customer
  • Senior Center services through Catholic Charities Community Services Corporation
    • Location: 7800 Detroit Avenue
    • 216-939-3700
  • Outpatient mental health services to adults and families through Catholic Charities Services’ Outpatient Mental Health
    • Location: 7800 Detroit Ave. | 2012 W. 25th Street
• GENERAL SERVICES to the general public in Cuyahoga County, which include services to the
  Hispanic/Latino community:
  • Employment and Training | Day Care and Head Start | Older Adult Services | Outpatient Mental Health Services | Chemical Dependency Residential Treatment at Matt Talbot Inn for women | Residential treatment for emotionally disordered children and youth at Parmadale [Back to top]

Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities (Formerly Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities)

1275 Lakeside Avenue East, Cleveland, OH, 44114

216-241-8230 | fax: 216-861-0253

CCBMRDD.org

• Superintendent Terrence M. Ryan, Ph.D. | Contact Person: Lourdes Negrón-McDaniel 216-736-4332
• OUR MISSION Support and empower people with developmental disabilities in the community to live, learn, work and play.
• BOARD OF TRUSTEES
  • A seven-member unpaid board oversees our overall operations. The Cuyahoga County Commissioners appoint five members; the presiding judge of Probate Court appoints two. At least three of the board members must be the parents of enrollees.
• BRIEF HISTORY
  • The Ohio General Assembly established boards of mental retardation in all of Ohio's counties in 1967 as a result of the strong lobbying efforts of parents whose local school districts refused to enroll their children. (Developmental Disabilities was added to the name and responsibilities several years later.) Early on, services centered on school-age programs, but since then, services have expanded far beyond that. Today, enrollment among very young children and adults far surpasses the school enrollment.
• PROGRAMS
  • Adult Services & Supports
  • Community/Residential Services & Supports
  • Early Childhood Services & Supports
  • Special Services
  • Behavioral & Healthcare Services
  • Assistive Technologies
  • School Age Services & Supports
  • Support Administration
  • Transportation
  • Quality Assurance
• AGENCY BUDGET $191.5 milion [Back to top]

El Barrio A program of Westside Ecumenical Ministry (WSEM)

5209 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44102

216-651-2037 | fax: 216-651-4145

wsem.org

• Executive Director Ingrid Angel
• OUR MISSION Bridging the gap between workforce offer and demand through culturally competent and industry-driven training.
• PROGRAMS El Barrio, the Workforce Development Center of Excellence of WSEM, provides pre-employment programs and employment referrals to youth, adults and families in need across the Greater Cleveland area.
  • Intensive and culturally sensitive case-management services in 3 languages (Arabic, Spanish and English). Our experienced case managers do everything they can to help you overcome your barriers to success.
  • Essential Job-Readiness training. A two-week course that provides basic skills on how to look for, find and retain meaningful employment with the best companies in town.
  • Job-search and placement services. Our experienced career consultants make sure that clients’ needs and goals match the search of our partnering companies.
  • English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. With levels ranging from beginning to advanced, our signature ESL classes are a perfect tool for those needing to learn or improve English language skills.
  • Pre-Vocational Workforce Channels in Customer Service and Pre-Construction. After completing Job Readiness, program participants may choose to further their studies with our Workforce Channel programs in which El Barrio partners with a broad network of companies that deliver industry-focused training.
  • Year-round after-school work-ethic workshops and employment readiness programs, including summer jobs for youth. [Back to top]

Esperanza, Inc.

3104 W 25th St 4th floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

216-651-7178 | fax: 216-651-7183

esperanzainc.org

• Executive Director Victor Ruiz
• OUR MISSION The mission of Esperanza is to enhance educational and economic opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
• OUR VISION Esperanza will be a model of academic and community excellence by motivating academic achievement, enhancing the quality of economic and community life, promoting continuity of community through leadership, offering enriched educational services and opportunities, and providing scholarship assistance.
• PROGRAMS
  • The Esperanza Scholarship Program awards college scholarships annually to eligible Hispanic students who reside in Cuyahoga and Lorain counties. Since 1994, Esperanza has awarded over 500 scholarships, including 52 scholarships in 2008.
  • Esperanza's Latina Leadership Alliance (ELLA) and
    Latino Leaders for an Outstanding Society (ELLOS)
    are our newest gender-specific programs for teens, bringing groups of young men and women together with Hispanic leaders to encourage personal and professional development. Each group allows students to discuss issues relevant to them when considering solutions to community and family challenges.
  • Prime Time for Reading is an in-school and after-school program for first- through fifth-grade students and their parents. Using a literacy-based curriculum developed by Cleveland Reads, limited-English-speaking Hispanic students improve their reading ability, academic skills, and love of reading. [Back to top]

Northeast Ohio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

2511 CLark Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

216-281-4422 | fax: 216-281-4222

hbahcco.org

• Executive Director Stephanie M. Mercado
• OUR MISSION To promote the growth of Hispanic business through technical assistance, strategic partnership, and advocacy.
• PROGRAMS
  • Technical Assistance
  • Business Plan Writing Assistance
  • Business Start Up Counseling
  • Financial Analysis
  • Assistance with Minority Business Enterprise Certification Workshops
  • Networking Conferences
  • Membership Meetings
  • Advocacy
  • Information on Contract and Bid Opportunities
• AGENCY BUDGET $330,000 [Back to top]

Hispanic Roundtable

1900 East Ninth Street, Suite 3200, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

216-445-7318 | fax: 216-444-3469

convencionhispana.org

• Chairman Andres Gonzalez
• OUR MISSION The Hispanic Roundtable Community Programs is a non-profit organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst to empower the Hispanic Community to become full partners in the economic, education, political, civic, and social life of Greater Cleveland.
• PROGRAMS
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Empowerment
  • The Hispanic Roundtable sponsors Convención Hispana every three years. The purpose of the event is to provide a progress update to the community and report on the resolutions passed at the last Convención Hispana. The resolutions are the basis of the strategic plan to address the issues and needs of this community.”
  • Convención Hispana 2007, the largest Hispanic/Latino community engagement and empowerment gathering in Northern Ohio, took place in October 2007 and drew nearly 2,000 attendees. Topics addressed at the convention included: Business and Economic Development, Civic Involvement, Community Development, Education, Health, and Social Services. [Back to top]

Hispanic Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug abuse Outreach Program (HUMADAOP)

3305 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

216-459-1222 | fax: 216-459-2696

hispanicumadaop.com

• Executive Director Carlos Ivan Ramos, Ph.D.
• OUR MISSION To empower the Hispanic /Latino community to eliminate the negative impact of HIV/AIDS, violence and the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs through culturally sensitive prevention, education, intervention, treatment and reentry services.
• OUR VISION Be recognized statewide, as a trusted provider of high quality holistic services, and will collaborate with public, private and faith-based agencies to achieve its mission.
• OUR VALUES Caring, excellence, spirituality, integrity, confidentiality, honesty, reliability, commitment and collaboration.
• PROGRAMS
  • Hispanic Alcohol and Drug Program provides prevention and education services working with schools, churches, correctional institutions and probation departments in areas where the Hispanic/Latino population resides.
  • Project Niños Unidos works with the Cleveland Metropolitan Public Schools in bilingual classrooms to provide substance abuse, primary prevention and education to Hispanic/Latino children, their families and their teachers.
  • Project Mejora is a mentor/mentee program targeting adolescents at risk of dropping out of school while at the same time encouraging them to fulfill or exceed academic requirements, and to avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
  • Hispanic UMADAOP Youth Center is a program that strives to bring Hispanic/Latino youth of every origin together in pursuit of common goals, equality, education and opportunity.
  • ENTRA (Entering a New Therapeutic Rehabilitative Approach) This program offers HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, and education in group settings or individually. As a measure of prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, ENTRA also supports safe sex practices and offers information dissemination and HIV/AIDS testing at health fairs and other community agencies.
  • HIV Early Intervention Through structured group sessions and individual activities, education on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted diseases information is provided to intravenous drug users. The program assists clients in achieving risk reduction goals.
• SERVICES
  • Miguel Prieto Treatment Centers (Casa ALMA – Male Treatment Center) and (Casa MARIA – Female Treatment Center): Both programs provide individualized recovery treatment services in a freestanding, residential setting, with the overall purpose of complete abstinence. This has been most successfully maintained with the development of a spiritual way of life based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous/Al-Anon. Casa ALMA is a 40-day residential treatment program and Casa MARIA is a minimum of 40 days with the option of up to 60 days residential treatment. Both programs have a sliding fee scale.
  • Project Hope provides residential drug treatment and wrap-around services to Hispanic/Latino young adult offenders (18-24 years) returning to Cleveland-area communities from custodial confinement.
  • Intake Program consists of working with clients in the areas of client treatment services, initial evaluation, crisis intervention, family intervention, referral and general accessing of Hispanic UMADAOP and community services.
• AGENCY BUDGET $1,000,000+ [Back to top]

Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

5209 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44102

216-961-2970 | fax: 216-651-4145

juliadeburgos.org

• Executive Director Letitia Lopez
• OUR MISSION The Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center is dedicated to preserving and sharing the Puerto Rican and Caribbean traditions through the teaching and practice of the visual, performing and literary arts.
• OUR VISION Create a dynamic, self-sufficient, cultural arts center showcasing the richness of  Puerto Rican and Caribbean Culture [Back to top]

MetroHealth Systems

2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

216-778-8824 | fax: 216-778-2157

metrohealth.org

• Contact person: Diana Gueits, Coordinator, Manager, Organizational Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives
• PROGRAMS & SERVICES The MetroHealth System is comprised of a major medical center, a rehabilitation hospital, two long-term care/skilled nursing centers, an outpatient surgery center, and a network of community-based health care centers.
  • MetroHealth Medical Center, located on the near west side of Cleveland, is a leader in trauma, emergency and critical care; women’s and children’s services, including high-risk obstetrical care and neonatal intensive care; comprehensive medical and surgical subspecialties; heart and vascular care; cancer care; senior health; stroke and rehabilitative health care services.  MetroHealth Medical Center offers the most advanced techniques in treating complex medical problems.
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Burn Care
  • Cancer Care
  • Dentistry
  • Dermatology
  • Emergency and Level 1 Trauma Care
  • Family Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Heart and Vascular Center
  • Intensive Care
    • burn
    • newborn
    • coronary
    • pediatric
      
    • medical
    • surgical
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Subspecialties
  • Metro Life Flight (emergency medical transport)
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pediatrics
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Psychiatry
  • Stroke Center
  • Surgical Specialties                                
  • MetroHealth Medical Center provides care to nearly 28,000 inpatients, including more than 3,400 newborns annually. More than 700,000 visits are recorded each year in the medical center’s outpatient centers. Patient visits to the emergency department exceed 91,000. [Back to top]

Neighborhood Family Practice

3569 Ridge Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44102 (phone: 216-281-0872)| 2353 Professor Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (phone: 216-334-2800)

nfpmedcenter.org

• Executive Director Jean Therrien
• OUR MISSION Neighborhood Family Practice is a non-profit community health center providing quality primary health care services to patients of all ages on the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio. We accept patients with Medicaid HMOs, commercial health insurance, Medicare, and offer a sliding fee scale for patients without health insurance. Our sites are located in Cleveland's Stockyards and Tremont neighborhoods.
• PROGRAMS & SERVICES
  • Medical care for people of all ages
  • Same-day appointments
  • Check-ups
  • Infant care including well child visits
  • Heart
  • Asthma
  • Diabetes
  • Pregnancy tests and Prenatal Care
  • Nurse-Midwifery
  • In-patient hospital care [NFP doctors have relationships with several area hospitals for more immediate or extensive health care needs]
  • Minor surgery
  • Mammograms
  • Mental health services for established patients
  • Wellness Education
  • Discounted prescription drugs
  • Lab tests
  • Help by phone
  • Individual and group health education
  • Women's health and Family Planning
  • Other primary health care needs
  • Referrals for specialty care are provided by a Referral Nurse at NFP [Back to top]

Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center

2226 West 89th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44102

216-651-8236 | fax: 216-651-8235

nuevaluzurc.org

• Executive Director Rev. Max Rodas
• OUR MISSION To challenge the root causes of systemic poverty among Latinos and other underserved minorities.
• OUR VISION Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center sees the end to the vicious cycle of poverty that keeps many of the residents of Cleveland’s Latino Community as well as all citizens in the west side neighborhoods locked into inadequate housing and low-income employment. We see an increase in education that enables individuals with lowered self-esteem to rise up out of the spiral of drug abuse, commercial sex work and the legal entanglements that go along with these activities. Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center, in collaboration with other programs on Cleveland’s west side, seeks to change this reality by providing compassionate outreach and service provision regardless of the individual’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religious affiliation.
• PROGRAMS Through a faith-based, culturally competent partnership, Nueva Luz will reduce the negative impact of HIV/AIDS in the Greater Cleveland Latino community. This will be accomplished through spiritual counseling, outreach, testing, prevention and supportive services in a safe, compassionate environment.
  • Adelante Youth Program
  • Proyecto Luz
  • Community Engagement
  • Latino Fatherhood Outreach
• SERVICES
  • Case Management: Nueva Luz provides case management services to the Latino community infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The program assists underserved individuals in creating a support system to cope with the complex demands of HIV/AIDS. Services are provided by bilingual case managers in a culturally appropriate manner.
  • Prevention Education: "Passing The Light" is an HIV/AIDS education and prevention program for Latina women targeting the near west side of Cleveland. The program provides a variety of interventions for women who are at risk. Program interventions include: educating hairstylists, club outreach, workshops, group presentations, testing, referrals, peer group training, outreach to Latino faith based organizations, individual counseling.
  • The Black and Brown Dialogues: The Black and Brown Dialogues are a series of dialogues between African American fathers and sons and Latino fathers and sons. This community gathering happens once every two months and rotates locations on Cleveland's east and west sides. Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center (on the west side) and Passages, Inc. (on the east side) collaborated to develop the Dialogue series in 2007. Both of these community-based organizations prioritize fatherhood and family in their missions and work. The goal of the Black and Brown Dialogues is to bring together urban minority fathers and sons to explore cultural and racial themes, life skills, fatherhood and self identity. [Back to to

Hispanas Organizadas en Lake y Ashtabula (HOLA)

P.O. Box 3066
Ashtabula, Ohio 44005

HOLAtoday.org

• Veronica Dahlberg is Executive Director of HOLA and Editor of the HOLA Journal.
• OUR MISSION The mission of HOLA is:  to provide and support quality of life and cultural services to the Hispanic constituency, and to serve as ambassadors to the non-Hispanic community.
• PROGRAMS
  • Founded in 1998, HOLA publishes The HOLA Journal or El Periódico HOLA, in Spanish, bi-monthly in two separate, complementary editions, one in Spanish and one in English. HOLA strives to be a high-quality publication. For the English edition, its mission is to inform the public about issues important to Hispanics in Lake and Ashtabula County, educate about Hispanic culture and publicize the contributions of the Hispanic community to northeast Ohio. The Spanish edition will serve to disseminate information to the Hispanic community and provide a forum for Hispanic voices. Circulation is estimated to be 5,000.
  • We will use the internet as a vehicle to communicate to a wider audience focusing on important issues for the Hispanic community.
  • In addition to publishing a free, bilingual newsletter, HOLA also:
    • Hosts an annual Christmas party for Hispanic kids together with the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots
    • Partners with Lake Erie College, Painesville, Ohio, to hold annual Tax Clinics in Spanish
    • Hosts “Information Fairs” to inform Hispanics about issues in healthcare, housing, legal matters, employment and services; and provide a forum for businesses and agencies to reach the Hispanic community.
      Advocates for the rights of immigrants. [Back to top]

National Society of Hispanic MBAs

National Society of Hispanic MBAs, Cleveland Chapter
13940 Cedar Road Suite 410
Cleveland, OH 44118-3204

216-456-2234

NSHMBA Cleveland Chapter

• President Darryl Chajon
• OUR MISSION
  • Increase the number of Hispanics graduating from MBA schools through scholarships, awareness programs and mentorship
  • Enhance career management opportunities for Hispanic MBAs from school to leadership positions, through job placement and world class professional development
  • To be the partner of choice for organizations seeking to hire and develop Hispanic talent
  • Recruit and retain as life-long members a majority of Hispanic MBAs
• Strategic Initiatives:
  • Brand NSHMBA as the premier organization for Hispanic business professionals as the central gathering point for networking, professional development and job placement
  • Deliver world class professional development to our membership through partnerships and co-branding programs with top tier organizations to serve our corporate, entrepreneurial, non-profit and government constituencies 
  • Create effective senior leader networks for our corporate, entrepreneurial, non-profit and government constituencies
  • Significantly increase the NSHMBA endowment and the funding of scholarships for Hispanic MBA students 
  • Position and promote the chapters as the life blood of NSHMBA, developing a culture of mutual accountability and a clear understanding of the service model among the board, national staff and chapter leadership
  • Align the membership recruitment and retention model to fulfill our mission of recruiting and retaining as life-long members more than 50% of all Hispanic MBAs
  • Diversify the funding sources of NSHMBA, including developing a clearing house for Hispanic executive talent and the piloting of regional conferences [Back to top]

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