Provides the opportunity for Black/African-American Greater Clevelanders to find safe support and share challenges.

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

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.

Offers community-based meetings and discussions for underrepresented minority populations in Lorain County. These meetings will address these groups' unique challenges in accessing mental health services and provide valuable information and resources to overcome these barriers. Focus on psychoeducation, group discussions, and hands-on activities to increase knowledge, reduce stigma, and improve access to mental health and substance abuse services.

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.

Provides a 5-week group series and sacred space for African-American adults. Works to help individuals return to themselves while coping with the impact of ongoing racial trauma.

Offers a heart disease risk reduction program designed specifically for African-Americans. Topics include proper diet and nutrition.

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.

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.

Provides specialized home-based prenatal services to African American mothers and their families with the goal of reducing infant mortality. Licensed community health workers are assigned to enrolled pregnant women to provide 1 or 2 in-home, monthly face-to-face visits that will continue until the child is 2 years old.

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.

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.

Recruits, screens, and trains residents to successfully submit employment applications. Applicant services include: soft skill interview training, skills for successful employment, computer/technology training classes, mentoring and career coaching. Also works with local employees to host neighborhood hiring events.

Provides a substance abuse prevention program that incorporates arts activities to reduce risk-taking behaviors of African American teenaged girls.

Offers individual and group therapy and other mental health services for community residents. Provides counseling following an African philosophy and an African-centered worldview.

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.

Offers a program to assist in building self-confidence and self awareness in an effort to resolve past trauma, avoid substance abuse and end cycles of poverty. Program includes sessions on resolving conflict before it escalates, managing money and building credit, time management, goal-setting, effective communication, critical thinking skills for problem solving, and avoiding premature fatherhood. Program may include participation in a golf program.

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

Provides performing arts instruction for lifelong learners.

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.

Provides a variety of services that cover women's health concerns, including, breast exams, pap smears, obstetrics/gynecological services, pregnancy testing, birth control, midwifery, and prenatal care, including care for high risk pregnancies. Offers testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

Provides a program for African American girls focused on enhancing confidence, mental wellness, self-esteem, etiquette, hygiene, and financial literacy.

Offers youth the opportunity to participate in activities that work toward empowering African-Americans and eliminating racial and other forms of discrimination. Participants take part in monthly voter registration drives and may participate in state, regional, and national conventions. Offers incentives to youth to stay in school.

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

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.