HEAL Cleveland
Promotes
Healthy
Eating
Active
Living by presenting health experts, healthy food sampling, teaching that community health starts by making the healthy choice the easy choice when eating and being physically active.
Community Gardening Program
Provides an experience growing nutritious food for garden participants and the pleasure of giving back by sharing the harvest with five of our Ward 1 community food banks. Our program currently has ten garden site locations. Our garden participants are really enjoying their gardens and some are currently harvesting and providing food for our Ward 1 Food Banks.
Seeds for Seniors
Distributes excess seeds purchased for our Community Gardens to home gardeners for our seniors. This allows them fresh vegetables at their homes.
Walking Groups or Clubs
Everyone is encouraged to start walking groups or clubs with their neighbors, street club, youth, seniors or employees of our businesses. Keep track of your steps, mileage or minutes walked individually or by group. Walking Group starter packets are available upon request with Group Organizer guidelines and walking.
Safe Routes to School
We work
with our Ward 1 schools to engage students in activities focused on improving safety for school travel while encouraging students to walk or bicycle to school. Parents, students, and concerned residents participate in improving our youth's overall fitness and making our community a safer environment.
For more information, please call (216) 991-8585 ext. 3123.
MomsFirst Program
The goal of MomsFirst is to reduce the number of babies that die before they are a year old. MomsFirst is a City of Cleveland program. It can provide home visits and support services to help you and your baby have a healthy pregnancy.
The program has trained Community Health Workers. They are trained in healthcare and social services. Their job is to meet with you twice a month. They help reduce the risks in your life that may affect the health of your baby or yourself.
Your Community Health Worker will help you: find a doctor for you and your baby, get to the doctor for your check-ups, get any medical or social services you need and get answers to questions you may have about prenatal care, baby care, birth control, and family planning.
MomsFirst can help you too!
To get started, please contact us at Harvard Community Services Center (216) 991-8585 ext. 3127. MomsFirst is
"Supported in part by the Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."
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Ms. Linda Jones, MomsFirst Program with participant
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Community Development
This program consists of five components: Housing Code Enforcement, Neighborhood Safety, Commercial Revitalization, Community Relations and Environment Preservation.
Services include: Referrals for Home Maintenance Energy Conservation, Educational Workshops, and Community Leadership Development. Code Enforcement Program, Ward 1 revitalization projects and events (residential and commercial development), Arts & Culture Initiatives, City of Cleveland Storefront Renovation Program, Small Business Development & Support, City of Cleveland Rain Barrel Program, Green & Sustainability projects, Empowered Block Clubs, and Community Engagement.
For more information, please contact us at Harvard Community Services Center. Call (216) 991-8585.
Food Pantry
The Cleveland Foodbank supplies a majority of the food used in local hot meal sites, shelters, and food pantries. In addition, we provide food to child centers, group homes, and programs for the elderly. The Food bank works closely with other Northeast Ohio hunger relief organizations, providing food and nonfood products to hunger center administered by the Hunger Network of Greater Cleveland, the Catholic Hunger and Shelter Network, and the Salvation Army, among others.
Our History: In 1979, a group of civic-minded individuals joined together to create the Cleveland Foodbank, an innovative method for confronting the critical issue of hunger in our community. Some of these people represented the food industry and expressed concern about the large amount of nutritious food going to waste each day. Others stood on the front lines in the fight against hunger and worried about the limited supply of food available to feed the hungry.
Working together, these individuals resolved that a single clearinghouse could solicit, collect, sort, and distribute food in a more efficient manner, ensuring improved operations for local charities in the Greater Cleveland area. The Cleveland Foodbank was incorporated to serve as a resource for both food industry donors and local charities feeding the hungry.
In the Foodbank's first year of operation, the organization distributed 400,000 pounds of food to 100 local hunger relief organizations. In the past year the Cleveland foodbank distributed 27.3 million pounds of food and other essential products to 456 member agencies. This was enough food for our member agencies to serve over 21.3 million meals for individuals in need in our community.
Before and After School-Educational Enhancement Program
Offers tutoring, homework, reports, math, science, and proficiency test preparation to help students advance in school.
Transportation is available to and from select schools, from the Harvard Community Services Center, Monday through Friday 7:30 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.
For more information please call (216) 991-8585 ext. 3132.
Summer Child Care Program
Summer Day Camp is held during the summer months when school is not in session. Camp is for children ages 5-13 years old.
The hours are from 9am-4pm, with extended hours offered, Monday thru Friday. There is a fee for day camp.
For more information, please call (216) 991-8585 ext. 3132.
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| Youth from 2015 Holiday Party |
School Recess Program
This is a special service to working parents. The Center provides supervision for children in grades kindergarten through sixth grade.
The program is available for a reasonable fee. Young students are involved in meaningful activities when schools are closed for holiday recesses in winter and spring breaks.
For more information, please call (216) 991-8585.
Suspension Program
This program is a partnership with schools and community to offer positive learning alternatives for 'youth under suspension'.
Youth are assigned to report to the Harvard Community Services Center during suspension from school. The students participate in supervised programs that focus on resolving conflicts, learning alternatives, tutoring, building positive self-esteem and the importance of education.
For more information, please call (216) 991-8585.
Star Bodies
Targets youth programs and parents in obesity, hypertension, and diabetes presentation programs.
The program focus on fitness, exercise, nutrition, and education which is integrated into Harvard's After-School program activities.
For more information, please call (216) 991-8585.
Family-to-Family Integrated System of Care
Programs within the System of Care Network at the Harvard Community Services Center include Foster Adoption Support Services, Kinship Care Support Services and Tapestry.
Foster Adoption Support Services, and Kinship Care Support Services target
adults caring for their grandchild, nieces or nephews,
brothers or sisters, or other minor age relatives.
For more information, please (216) 991-8585 ext. 3110.
Tapestry
Takes a family-centered, team approach to serving children with multiple needs. The Tapestry team looks at the strengths within a family that can serve as the foundation for service to children in need and their families.
For more information, call (216) 991-8585 ext. 3120.
Wrap-Around Services
If the family needs a more intensive service:
High-Fidelity Wraparound - Cuyahoga Tapestry System of Care takes a family-centered, team approach to serving children with multiple needs. Rather than look at what is "wrong" with a family, the family and team look at the family's strengths and take action based on those strengths.
It is a process that respects children, parents, caregivers and families, and is sensitive to the family's culture, language and community. It also values the importance of social networks, "natural" supports, the faith community and neighborhoods.
Inter-generational Program
The goals and objects of the Inter-generational
Program (Genesis) are first, to service the community by addressing the social needs and issues facing our seniors and youth.
Second, to bring the generations together to learn from each other and serve one another. And finally, to improve relationships, increase self-esteem, reduce stereotypes and encourage mutual respect.
Harvard Hands On
*Participants will engage in Wrap Around Services programming to develop new problem solving skills and mobilize their personal support networks to enrich family operations and remove barriers to workplace entry.
*Participants will receive individualized GED Preparation Assessments and combined group level and customized training and education essential to the successful passage of the GED Examination.
*Participants will be able to demonstrate and apply Hands On Job readiness and search skills.
*Participants will gain and apply financial literacy education to their own practices of personal and household management.
*Participants will gain information Technologies skills across the fields of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as Internet for ready application to the workplace.
*Participants will utilize the applied Hands On job search skills to obtain gainful employment.
*Participants will utilize the Harvard Hands On Program's Wrap Around, Workforce Readiness and Job Search, Information Technologies, Financial Literacy education to evidence improved self-sufficiency and family operations. call (216) 991-8585 ext 3106.
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| Harvard Hands On Students Sharing Their Vision Board |
Annual
Hot Fun Ward 1 Community Expo
The Ward 1 Community Expo takes place annually at Kerruish
Park. This event draws thousands and features
non-stop entertainment including: a 5k Race/1 Mile Walk, Parade, Bicycle Rodeo, Celebrity Softball Game, Kids World, Senior Village, Food & Vendors, Beer Garden, and Live Entertainment.
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| 2015 Ward 1 Community Expo |
The Senior Connection
This program is for active adults, 60 and over, who are able to basically live independent lifestyles. We have an extensive referral list for t hose seniors who require personal or skilled care such as dispensing medications and assisting with other health challenges. These meals are offered Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Congregate Meals
- Seniors are encouraged to come to our Center for lunch and socialization. Healthy lunches are provided and diabetic meals are available upon request.
Socialization Seniors
- come and socialize with other seniors. They play various games like Bingo, and a dominos, and a variety of card games. Other activities include arts and crafts, exercise, book clubs, bible study, dancing and more. The Senior Connection also takes trips. A few of the previous outings include John F. Kennedy Recreation Center, Camp Forbes, and Amish Country.
Home Delivered Meals
- Some of our participants are home bound, ill, immobile or have no one to cook for them. Our Meals On Wheels program delivers meals to eligible seniors Monday thru Friday. Eligibility is determined by an in-home assessment. Diabetic meals are also available from Meals on Wheels.
For more information, or to participate in the Senior Connection, please call (216) 991-8585.
The Rubie Ball
The Rubie Ball
is an annual fund-raiser gala
held in honor of Rubie J. McCullough, the founder of the Harvard Community Services Center. In 1968, Ms. McCullough founded the Center in the Lee Harvard neighborhood where she and her husband, William, bought a home and she had started community work. She worked as president of the Center until her retirement in 1989. Mrs. McCullough was a staunch advocate for her community. Her ability to work with educators, politicians and business people helped her stand out and affect change. She worked tirelessly for the Center, helping to ensure that her constituents enjoyed a better standard of living. From meals for senior citizens to recreational and educational programs for children, she spent her life addressing the needs of others. She also worked as a friend to the Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland schools and Cuyahoga Community College, where she served as a trustee from 1974 until her death in 1995. She had moved to Cleveland in 1945, where she worked at the Phyllis Wheatley Association, learning from mentors like Jane Edna Hunter, Tommie Patty and Ethel Storey. After moving to the Lee Harvard neighborhood, she got involved in organizations, becoming president of the Eldamere Street Club and the Lee-Harvard Community Association.
For information about the
2016 Rubie Ball please contact Debra Prater or Michelle Oliver at
(216) 991-8585. Date: Saturday, March 12, 2016 at Catered Elegance.
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