Providence House CEO & President Natalie Leek-Nelson to testify on the vital role of crisis nurseries in Columbus
Providence House CEO & President Natalie Leek-Nelson to testify on the vital role of crisis nurseries in Columbus
Columbus, OH – Natalie Leek-Nelson, CEO and president of Providence House, is testifying today in front of the Ohio Senate Finance: Health and Medicaid Subcommittee in Columbus on the significant need for funding for the vital work of crisis nurseries. Leek-Nelson’s testimony will focus on securing funding in each fiscal year of the upcoming biennium for Ohio’s licenses Crisis Nurseries, of which there are currently two.
“Providence House is grateful to have received funding during the last two state budget cycles,” said Leek-Nelson. “In addition to the vital day-to-day work of a crisis nursery, we are seeing an increase in helping families who are impacted by many of the state’s greatest challenges, such as the opioid epidemic and Ohio’s high infant mortality rate.”
In addition to stepping up to plate to meet the state’s child welfare challenges, Providence House has a proven record of enduring impact on families and significant economic benefit to the community. A long-term outcomes study by Case Western Reserve University found that when families engage in Providence House’s services, their children are less likely to enter foster care. Knowing the average cost annually for each child in foster care is $25,782, services provided by Providence House saved $8,404,932 in foster care costs just last year alone. Factor in additional costs for higher need children and related medical and legal costs for foster care placements and this figure quadruples to nearly $30 Million annually.
For over 35 years, Providence House has protected children in situations where they are at risk of abuse or neglect due to homelessness or unsafe housing, having a caregiver in need of medical or mental health services, substance abuse treatment, or families struggling with poverty, and community or domestic violence.
Editor’s note: Natalie Leek-Nelson will be available for phone or in-person interviews to discuss her testimony, as well as the impact of Providence House’s services on the local community.
Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby Youth Fund grant recipients announced
Cleveland Indians' Larry Doby Youth Fund grant recipients announced
Author: Marc Bona
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Eighteen Northeast Ohio non-profit groups have been named beneficiaries of the Larry Doby Youth Fund, a program created just six months ago by Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona.
After its inception in October, the fund quickly drew $1 million in contributions from players, public and the organization. This year, team owner Paul Dolan credited Francona with being the driving force behind the project, which aims to curb youth violence.
The Cleveland Foundation administers the fund, which supports resources for non-profit community groups. The foundation helped review grant proposals with a committee composed of Indians management and team members.
“We are very fortunate to be a part of Major League Baseball,” Francona said in a news release, “and we accept the social responsibility that comes with that – to use our resources to directly make an impact on the underserved youth of our community, and to make our community better.”
Doby was the first African-American player in the American League and the second behind Jackie Robinson to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
2017 Larry Doby Youth Fund grant recipients
* America SCORES Cleveland: After-school soccer and journal writing.
* Negro League Baseball Legends Hall of Fame: League Park baseball history youth programming.
* Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cleveland – Bigs in Blue: Mentoring relationships with 4th District police and youth.
* Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland: Building bridges between youth and law enforcement.
* Cleveland Peacemakers Inc.: Mentoring relationships for youth with police officers.
* Cleveland Police Athletic League: Activities that engage police officers and youth.
* College Now Greater Cleveland Inc.: College- and career-advising program for 600 John Adams High School students.
* East End Neighborhood House Association: My Brother, My Sister Cleveland chapter – after-school program for seventh- and eighth-graders.
* Esperanza Inc.: Mentoring programs.
* Friends of Breakthrough Schools: Support for 11 high-performing charter schools.
* Golden Ciphers: Out of school time programs.
* Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry: Health and crime-prevention education programs.
* Ohio Guidestone: Youth and police development programming.
* NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology: After-school youth-arts programming.
* Partnership For A Safer Cleveland: IMPACT 25 Youth Commission.
* Providence House Inc.: Emergency shelter for children in crisis.
* University Settlement Inc.: SmartY’s program.
* Youth Opportunities Unlimited: Summer job program for youth.
Support Providence House with a Festive Holiday Evening at the 21st Annual Deck the House Auction Benefit Presented by the Cleveland Browns
Support Providence House with a Festive Holiday Evening at the 21st Annual Deck the House Auction Benefit Presented by the Cleveland Browns
Support Providence House with a Festive Holiday Evening at the 21st Annual Deck the House Auction Benefit Presented by the Cleveland Browns
What:
Put a little jingle in the holidays while you mingle at the best holiday party in town at the 21st Annual Providence House Deck the House Benefit Auction to help children in crisis on Tuesday, December 6th.
Step into a hopping holiday atmosphere at the City View Lounge at FirstEnergy Stadium, complete with an elegant dinner buffet and professionally decorated Christmas trees while listening to festive live music by the North Coast Men’s Chorus. Guests will mix and mingle while bidding on hundreds of auction items featuring trips, tickets, toys, treasures, and time-of-your-life experiences including the Indians Owner’s Loge for 32, Cavaliers suite for 12, and Caribbean vacation packages. Nearly 800 guests are expected to attend and offer their support to children and families in crisis this holiday season.
Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl Offensive Lineman, Joe Thomas, will also present the 2016 Ed Block Courage Award to a Cleveland Browns player that has been voted by his teammates as a community role model and a player exemplifying professionalism, strength, and dedication.
Who:
Honorary chairs Annie & Joe Thomas, #73, Browns Offensive Lineman
Celebrity Emcee Jimmy Malone, WMJI 105.7 FM and Andrea Vecchio
Where:
FirstEnergy Stadium, Home of the Cleveland Browns
City View Lounge
100 Alfred Lerner Way
Enter through the Southeast Gate
When:
Tuesday, December 6th
5:30-9:30 p.m.
Media passes available at the registration table. Please check in for pass.
About Providence House:
Providence House – Ohio’s first Crisis Nursery – has cared for over 8,000 families and children in crisis, living for days, weeks, or years without the support they need to help get them back on their feet. For 35 years, Providence House has protected at-risk children, empowered families in crisis, and built safer communities for every child. Their nationally recognized, evidenced-based model prevents child abuse and neglect, reduces system involvement and foster care placements, and keeps families safe, stable, and together. Visit provhouse.org for more information.
Contact:
Kayla Naticchioni
216.651.5982 x 225
kayla@provhouse.org
Indians pitchers Cody Allen, Bryan Shaw donate wiffle ball field to Providence House
Indians pitchers Cody Allen, Bryan Shaw donate wiffle ball field to Providence House
Author: Tim Bielik, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Indians pitchers Cody Allen and Bryan Shaw helped debut a new wiffle ball field for children at Providence House in Cleveland on Thursday.
With the help of the Indians, Allen and Shaw donated a turf field with bases, bats, balls and gloves to Providence House. They also took time to play some wiffle ball with kids at the house.
They were there last fall as part of a service project and Allen felt that it needed a field for the kids to play on.
“I kind of felt like we should try to do our part as well,” Allen said. “It’s a great place and the City of Cleveland needs a place like this for these kids. So, it’s like, ‘We’ll try to put our stamp on something and try to help out any way we can.’ This is what we thought up.”
Providence House is an organization and home working to stop child abuse by protecting children in at-risk families. The Browns and Cavaliers have also worked with the organization, with the Browns putting together a room with Browns colors and the Cavaliers making a small basketball court.
“We’ve been really fortunate that the Cleveland teams have supported our organization,” Providence House president and CEO Natalie Leek-Nelson said. “When Cody saw that, he said, ‘Where’s the Indians stuff?’ And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know. Where is it?’
“So he and Bryan said, ‘We got this covered.’ So I got a call a couple of months ago that they came together with the Indians and were going to dedicate a wiffle ball field for our kids, a turf field.”
Along with the team, Allen and Shaw partnered up with The Motz Group, a company specializing in turf fields, to create the field.
“The concept of what they do here is really awesome,” Shaw said. “It’s a great thing that they do, trying to get the families back together and everything else.
“It was time to put something Indians out here for them. It was kind of a cool little thing for them.”
Cleveland Coffee Company introduces “Viva Brasil” coffee blend in partnership with Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes
Cleveland Coffee Company introduces “Viva Brasil” coffee blend in partnership with Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes
June 23, 2016 – Cleveland-based Cleveland Coffee Company announced today an exciting partnership with Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes to produce a unique coffee blend called “Viva Brasil.”
Viva Brasil is a specialty-grade Brazilian coffee, well-balanced with chocolate tones and clean finish. The blend is a small batch roasted, Arabica coffee which was custom-created by Gomes while sampling coffees on a recent visit to Cleveland Coffee Company, owned by local entrepreneur Brendan Walton.
“Yan is the first Brazilian-born athlete in Major League history, and since Brazil is the largest exporter of coffee in the world, I thought he might enjoy branding a custom Brazilian coffee,” said Walton. “Yan and his wife, Jenna, came out to our warehouse to learn more about roasting. We’re very excited to launch this new coffee and, at the same time, give back to a great cause.”
Cleveland Coffee Company will donate 15% of the proceeds from all Viva Brasil sales to Providence House, a crisis nursery committed to child abuse prevention and family preservation in the Cleveland area (www.provhouse.org).
“Providence House is so grateful to the Cleveland Coffee Company and Yan Gomes of the Cleveland Indians,” said Natalie Leek-Nelson, CEO and President of Providence House. “Their partnership will help us provide emergency shelter and care for babies and children in crisis across Greater Cleveland and further our mission to protect at-risk children, empower families in crisis, and build safer communities for every child.”
Gomes’ family moved to the United States from Sao Paulo, Brazil when he was 12. Gomes played high school baseball in Miami, Florida, and played college baseball at University of Tennessee and Barry University. Age 28, Gomes has been with the Cleveland Indians since 2012.
Viva Brasil will be on shelves beginning June 17 and available through October 31 in more than 40 retail outlets, including Heinen’s, Zagara’s Marketplace, Dave’s Supermarkets and Market District (whole bean only), online at www.clevelandcoffeecompany.com (shipping available worldwide) as well as at Walton’s downtown café and bar A.J. Rocco’s located on Huron Road, around the corner from Progressive Field.
This is Cleveland Coffee Company’s second partnership with a local professional athlete. In January, the company launched G’Day Mate Blend with Australian-born, Cleveland Cavaliers player Matthew “Delly” Dellavedova. The custom blend of specialty-grade Peruvian and Sumatra coffees is available through June 30.
Walton is fully renovating an aged building at W. 58thStreet and Lorain Avenue to open Cleveland Coffee Company’s first retail shop later this year.
For more details, visit www.clevelandcoffeecompany.com; Facebook: Cleveland Coffee Company; Twitter: @ClevelandCoffee; and, Instagram: @ClevelandCoffeeCompany.
Hashtags: #VivaBrasilCLE #PHCoffeeBreak
About Cleveland Coffee Company
Located in Cleveland’s Midtown, Cleveland Coffee Company is a small-batch roaster dedicated to providing quality and perfection. Owned by local entrepreneur Brendan Walton, the company purchases 100% specialty grade Arabica green coffee from world importers that support coffee farmers who maintain a belief in social, environmental and economic values. Cleveland Coffee Company has been providing fresh roasted coffee to area cafes and businesses since 2003.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Mary Patton – Patton Public Relations
mobile: 216-214-3951; email: mary@pattonpr.com
Photos available upon request.
Help Protect Children, Empower Families, and Build Safer Communities
Help Protect Children, Empower Families, and Build Safer Communities
CLEVELAND— April is National Child Abuse Prevention Awareness month, and Providence House, a non-profit providing emergency shelter and services to children at risk of abuse and neglect, invites the community to get involved and learn more throughout the month and beyond.
“National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the events hosted by Providence House are an opportunity for the community to come together not only to raise awareness of child abuse and neglect, but more importantly learn about what the community can do to get involved,” said Natalie Leek-Nelson, CEO and president of Providence House. “We are excited that during this important month we have the opportunity to engage in a number of ways with our community and supporters.”
Join Providence House for these events and help spread the word about child abuse prevention:
Tower City Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Campaign April 15-30:
- A public awareness campaign featuring vibrant banners that communicate powerful messages about child abuse prevention and awareness will adorn the Skylight Concourse at Tower City Center.
- This is a great b-roll opportunity for broadcast media. Onsite interviews with president and CEO Natalie Leek-Nelson can be scheduled for the week of April 25th by calling 216-651-5982 ext. 222.
WTAM 1100 AM Fill the Truck for Providence House April 12-13th:
- For the second year in a row, Mike Trivisonno, Bill Wills and WTAM 1100 AM are supporting Providence House by hosting a “Fill the Truck” event in front of the iHeart Radio Studios at 6200 Oak Tree Blvd off Rockside Road in Independence Tuesday, April 12th and Wednesday, April 13th.
- The community is invited to stop by the studios and drop off their donation from the Providence House “wish list” which is posted on provhouse.org.
- President and CEO Natalie Leek-Nelson will be on air with Mike Trivisonno on Tuesday, April 13that 4:00 p.m.
- Donations will benefit the over 300 children that call Providence House home each year.
35th Annual Luncheon presented by the Catanzarite Foundation April 22nd :
- The event will celebrate the organization’s accomplishments, share a day in life of a child at Providence House, and launch the plans for the agency’s vision for growth over the next five years.
- Hundreds of guests will gather to show their support for child abuse prevention in our community and to honor the selfless volunteers, community leaders and corporate partners that make the work of Providence House possible.
- This year’s honorees include Joe Cimperman, Forest City Enterprises, and Saint Joseph Academy.
- The doors open at 11:30 a.m., and lunch begins at noon. Those interested in attending the luncheon should visit provhouse.org.
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Contact:
Susie Bauer
216-651-5982 x 226
About Providence House:
Providence House – Ohio’s first Crisis Nursery – has cared for nearly 8,000 families and children in crisis since 1981. To provide the support so desperately needed by these children and their caregivers, Providence House has built a holistic, integrated program focused on both child abuse prevention and family preservation. Their unique Crisis Nursery Program is a comprehensive, crisis nursery service based on 35 years of experience, the latest child welfare research, and proven evidence-based programs and practices that can help prevent child abuse and neglect, reduce system involvement and foster care placements, and strengthen families in crisis. Visit provhouse.org for more information.
Providence House Celebrates 35th Anniversary at the "Launch to 40 Luncheon" April 22nd
Providence House Celebrates 35th Anniversary at the "Launch to 40 Luncheon" April 22nd
WHAT:
Providence House, a Crisis Nursery dedicated to preventing child abuse and neglect, is celebrating 35 years of protecting over 8,000 of Greater Cleveland’s at-risk children.
Providence House invites the community to celebrate its 35th anniversary at the “Launch to 40 Luncheon,” presented by the Catanzarite Foundation. The event will celebrate the organization’s accomplishments, share a day in life of a child at Providence House, and launch the plans for the agency’s vision for growth over the next five years.
Hundreds of guests will gather to show their support for child abuse prevention in our community and to honor the selfless volunteers, community leaders and corporate partners that make the work of Providence House possible. This year’s honorees include Joe Cimperman, Forest City Enterprises, and Saint Joseph Academy.
WHERE:
Renaissance Cleveland Hotel
Grand Ballroom
24 Public Square
WHEN:
Friday, April 22nd
Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Lunch and program at noon
Media passes available. Please call Susie Bauer at 216.651.5982 x 226
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Contact:
Susie Bauer
216-651-5982 x 226
About Providence House
Providence House – Ohio’s first Crisis Nursery – has cared for nearly 8,000 families and children in crisis since 1981. To provide the support so desperately needed by these children and their caregivers, Providence House has built a holistic, integrated program focused on both child abuse prevention and family preservation. Their unique Crisis Nursery Program is a comprehensive, crisis nursery service based on 35 years of experience, the latest child welfare research, and proven evidence-based programs and practices that can help prevent child abuse and neglect, reduce system involvement and foster care placements, and strengthen families in crisis. Visit provhouse.org for more information.