What is the clear career path for students in the Cleveland Municipal School District? That has become a very difficult question, in some respects, to answer.
“One of the things I tell them is that if we all we got, then we got to be all we need because losing ain’t an option,” Fred Ward said. “Just because you might have done that don’t mean that you have to stay that.”
Organizations are working to help people with disabilities gain more independence in everyday life, thanks to technology. The first Smart Home in Stark County is a model people are hoping to copy for more homes across Ohio.
”Children, being abused, tortured, sexual situations, that no children should be involved in. With a number of tips coming in, we can’t turn that faucet off,” said David Frattare with Ohio Internet Crimes against Children Task Force.
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is the three-digit phone number for those having a mental health crisis, or those who are simply in need of guidance, to call for help.
“Gang violence has certainly always been an issue but this year, in particular in Cleveland, seems to be more violent than normal,” said Todd Krajeck, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Cleveland field office.
Representatives from the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services will also be present at the news conference.
No one wants to be involved in an active shooter event, but the Public Safety Training Center on the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Parma Heights is helping to train first responders on how to handle such incidents.
Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne hopes to provide a financial boost to integrate more social workers into public safety forces throughout the county.
It has never been an easy task delivering the mail, but even as some of us have become less reliant on that daily delivery, the task has become even more difficult, dangerous even.
When Richmond Heights police officers were dispatched to investigate reports of a man waving a gun and a knife outside a local business, they knew they could be dealing with a man struggling with mental health.
Independence is one of 33 area agencies that fall under the umbrella of Chagrin Valley Dispatch, a centralized hub broken into three subsections of 11 police departments each.
”It’s easy to spend other people’s money, especially when they think it’s a bottomless pit,” said Ronald Adrine, retired presiding judge of the Cleveland Municipal Court.
17-year-old James Woods was a track star at Streetsboro High School. The victim of sextortion. The teen took his life just days before Thanksgiving, after who he thought was a 19-year-old woman started messaging him on Instagram.