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Works to protect and defend the civil rights of all persons. Concerned with eliminating racial discrimination and segregation from all aspects of American public life.

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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Works to build the West Hill neighborhood in Akron. Coordinates committees to monitor crime and safety issues, advocate for proper zoning, aids in creating green spaces that include small neighborhood parks and community garden spaces.
Provides help to community residents and organizations engaged in community building activities. Grants range from $100 - $250. Grants are intended to encourage health, safety, neighborliness, civic participation, volunteerism, community pride and activism in the North End of Mansfield (census tracts 6, 7 and 16). Three or more residents can apply for funds; Two or more organizations can apply for funds on a matching basis. Terms may change.

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Program Development Funds
Community Organizing Assistance
Neighborhood Improvement Groups
Neighborhood Revitalization
Provides policy updates and information for human service advocates and prepares a biennial budget advocacy agenda in support of human services. Information about these activities is available primarily on this agency's website. Advocates at the state and county levels on human services issues.
Provides advocacy for individuals with substance use issues and dealing with homelessness. Provides lunches to the homeless community in Akron.
Supports the passage and enforcement of laws and other social measures that protect and promote the rights and interests of women.
Works to protect and defend the civil rights of all persons. Concerned with eliminating racial discrimination and segregation from all aspects of American public life.

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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Provides information on social justice issues that may be coming before legislators at the state and federal levels. Lobbies legislators on these issues. Makes presentations on the Catholic church's social justice teachings, their implications for today, and how to take action.

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Community Organizing Assistance
Political Action/Lobbying Groups
Catholic Community
Advocates for better medical care, education, housing, research, and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness.

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Disability Rights Groups
Families/Friends of Mentally Ill
-Informs and educates public on respect for life. -Supports civil and human rights of all, especially the unborn, aged, and those unable to defend themselves. -Provides literature, films, and speakers on abortion, infanticide, euthenasia, and fetal experimentation. -Offers support to pregnant women.
Provides information and resources upon which individuals and the general public may make informed decisions reagrdign various topics of fetal development, abortion, alternatives to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia.
Provides cultural heritage and spiritual formation programming from a Chabad - Chassidic perspective. Provides a Mikvah (ritual bath) for women as part of the female programming.
Educates the public and media about the status of and threats to women's rights. Organizes rallies, protests, demonstrations and marches of all sizes. Lobbies for and writes laws that promote full equality for women. Registers new voters. Recruits feminist candidates at all levels of government. Initiates and supports lawsuits against violators of women's rights.
Annual memorial service to honor homeless persons who have died on the street during the year.

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Homelessness Advocacy Groups

Seeks to eliminate race prejudice and remove all barriers of racial discrimination through advocacy, the electoral process, lobbying, litigation, organization, and protest. Works to resolve complaints of racial discrimination and seeks to empower African Americans. Does not provide legal service. Membership available

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Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Provides advocacy and information to help people, strengthen communities and fights for the issues that matter most to seniors and thier families.
Provides law enforcement information and education. Provides community policing, with officers patrolling on motorcycles and talking with residents. Accepts complaints on and provides information about consumer fraud. Performs security evaluations for homes and businesses on request. Provides special random patrols of homes where residents are on vacation.

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General Crime Prevention Programs
Fraud Prevention
Security Evaluations
Police/Community Relations Groups
Vacation Security Checks
Provides support, education, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.

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LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
Families/Friends of LGBTQ2+ Individuals
Organizes a community collaborative of partners representing neighborhoods, schools, non-profits and government agencies focused on improving kindergarten readiness for children in the Elyria City School District. Works directly with multiple early education centers whose students will likely attend Elyria City Schools beginning in kindergarten. Partnering agencies include: Child Care Resource Center, Elyria City Schools, Elyria Parks and Recreation, Elyria Public Library System, Horizon Education Centers, Lorain County Community College (LCCC) Children’s Learning Center, Lorain County Community Action Agency, Lorain County Public Health, Lorain County Job and Family Services, OhioGuidestone, and United Way of Greater Lorain County. Specific strategies include: - Implementation of an Imagination Library. - Identifying children who need intervention and providing them with services before Kindergarten. - Providing tools and resources to homecare providers and stay-at-home family providers. - Assisting all families and children with a formal transition plan to Kindergarten and including neighborhood childcare center staff and homecare providers in advanced training facilitated by the school district.
Provides outpatient mental health care and substance use disorder services, as well as LGBTQ2+ therapy groups and DND therapy groups.

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Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Central Intake/Assessment for Mental Health Services
LGBTQ2+ Advocacy Groups
Substance Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Psychiatric Disorder Counseling
Central Intake/Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Provides customized workshops and consulting services to corporations, non-profit organizations, and other groups that focus on diversity in the workplace and strive to create environments within organizations that foster respect and understanding among all people regardless of race, gender, religion, and culture. Provides leadership and organizational development initiatives that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Provides ways to continue to create, fund or grow new programs of diversity and inclusion, that deliver healing from financial, mental or other difficulties within our community, state and nation.

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Homelessness Advocacy Groups
Provides advocacy for people with mental illness.

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Mental Health Associations
Provides activities conducted on both an individual and systematic level to eliminate structural and communication barriers, provide accessible housing and transportation, enforce accessible parking, impact legislation, and eliminate discrimination toward people with disabilities.
Seeks to eliminate racial prejudice and remove all barriers of racial discrimination through advocacy, the electoral process, lobbying, litigation, organization, and protest. Works to resolve complaints of racial, gender, and other types of discrimination and seeks to empower African-Americans. Does not provide legal service. Memberships available.