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Our Goals 2021-2022
- Introduction
- Stabilization and recovery

The Situation

Dimensions of Poverty
- The myth of the undeserving poor
- Income
- Housing
  - Housing as a dimension of poverty
- Health
  - Health as a dimension of poverty
  - Your zipcode determines your health
- Root causes of poverty

Poverty by age groups
- Children
  - Children in poverty
  - 41,526 families living in poverty - Cuyahoga County
  - Tough choices every day
  - Parenting in Poverty
  - Access to proper education
  - Access to proper housing
  - Trauma and mental health
- Adults
  - Adults in poverty
  - Wages and Employment
  - Educational attainment and employment
  - Housing
    - CoC Point-in-time homeless count, Cleveland/Cuyahoga County
    - CoC Point-in-time homeless untreated behavioral health, Cleveland/Cuyahoga County
  - Mental health and substance abuse
    - Adults - impact of adverse childhood experiences
    - Estimated drug overdoses, Cuyahoga County, by year
- Seniors

Covid-19

Conclusion
- The end points to the beginning

2020 Community Needs Assessment

Myth of the undeserving poor

If the entire population of Cuyahoga residents living in poverty were represented by 100 people

There are 100 people.

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Community Needs Assessment

The other 98 need help.

Intergenerational economic mobility is the likelihood that children achieve a higher standard of living than the household in which they were reared. In Cleveland, children that are born poor are likely to also be poor as adults. Locally and across the U.S., Black children are more likely than white children to be persistently poor.

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