Partner Spotlight

HCP Partner Spotlight: Carmella Williams Entrepreneur, Director, Gardener, and the "Hair Lady" “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” - Maya Angelou Carmella Williams, the "Hair Lady" In her final reflection as part of the Healthy Community Partnership cohort for the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health, Carmella Williams assigned herself the alias “the Hair Lady” with the superpower of never giving up, no matter what. For the June Partner Spotlight, we are highlighting Carmella Williams, who serves as a HCP’s Steering Committee member and partner on [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: 2022 Community Ride Leaders Newly Trained Community Ride Leaders (from Left to Right) Ronnell Elkins, YoGo Bike Share Kris Kriebel, Trumbull County Combined Health District Tricia D'Avignon, Boardman Township Zoning & Development Doris Bullock, Stepping Out Program at Mercy Health Jessica Romeo, Community Health Education at Mercy Health Sarah Lowry, Healthy Community Partnership/Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley Ira Cross, Mahoning County Veterans Service Commission/CycWard Bike Club (Trainer) Kelan Bilal, Excalibur Barber & Grooming Lounge/CycWard Bike Club (Trainer) “Cyclists see considerably more of this beautiful world than any other class of citizens. A good bicycle, [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: Leigh Greene Director of Community Health at Mercy Health Youngstown National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 2022 National Minority Health Month Header In April, we celebrate National Minority Health Month, Black Maternal Health Week, National Public Health Week, and World Health Day. Which means, we also celebrate one of our public health sheroes who has dedicated her life and career to promoting health equity: Leigh Greene. First, an overview of the origins and purpose of National Minority Health Month: Build awareness about the disproportionate burden of premature death and illness [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: Stephanie Dyer Environmental Program Manager at Eastgate Regional Council of Governments Celebrating those who take care of us | Image by Melissa Askew March is a month of celebrating those who take care of us–from our own mothers to the mother of us all, Earth. We recognize the contributions of women and individuals who identify as women during Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (March 8). March is also when we usher in the beginning of spring (March 20) and the reawakening of the natural world so it is fitting that [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: Miles Jay (Johnson) Community Organizer with Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership “You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I’m attempting to do right now.” — Angela Davis City of Warren Mayor Doug Franklin and Miles Jay (Johnson) recognizing a member of the Jefferson K-8 Men of Distinction Anyone who has had the fortune to meet Miles Jay (Johnson) immediately feels the presence of his leadership, partnership, and mentorship.  Whether he is in [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: 2021 Wrapped HCP Celebrates another Successful Year with a 2021 Partner Spotlight Highlights Playlist We've made it through another memorable sometimes breath-taking, sometimes gut-wrenching roller-coaster of a year. Like everyone else, HCP celebrated milestones and accomplishments, but we also experienced setbacks, delays, and lost opportunities. Throughout all of the ups and downs each year rolls out, HCP continues to move forward and onward because of our partners, our relationships, and our commitments to each other. In honor of our partners' ongoing outstanding work, we are wrapping up the year with a Partner Spotlight Highlight [...]

HCP Partner Spotlight: Deryck Toles, Founder & CEO Inspiring Minds Inspiring Minds works to create a community and a vision for the future that believes anything is possible. Interview with Deryck Toles, Founder & CEO Inspiring Minds Deryck Toles, Inspiring Minds Founder & CEO “You don’t mentor a child for a week, a month, or a year. When you truly mentor someone, you mentor them for life.” – Deryck Toles This year, Inspiring Minds celebrated 15 years of dreaming big and transforming lives. Since 2006, Inspiring Minds has: Expanded to 5 communities across the [...]

HCP-MV Partner Spotlight: Deonte "Tae" Stubbs, Visual Communications Intern Welcoming, Recognizing, and Celebrating the Contributions of Our Interns Helen Hayes, legend in the U.S. theater community “The expert at anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award winner) The Healthy Community Partnership is an ongoing conga of constructive, consistent, contradictions: we simultaneously prioritize working towards a healthier present and future; we act with a sense of urgency but also a commitment to working intentionally; we are rooted in data but driven by story and experiences; we strive for results, to [...]

HCP-MV Partner Spotlight: Dawn Turnage, City of Youngstown Parks and Recreation Promoting, Preserving, and Preparing Our Parks for the Future For nearly 40 years, the United States has celebrated National Parks and Recreation Month in July. The National Recreation and Parks Association describes the purpose of the month long celebration, which is to: promote building strong, vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation, and to recognize the more than 160,000 full-time park and recreation professionals — along with hundreds of thousands of part-time and seasonal workers and volunteers — that maintain our country’s local, [...]

HCP-MV Partner Spotlight: Cassandra Clevenger--Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership Community Resource Coordinator: Convening, Collaborating & Connecting Cassandra Clevenger distributing seeds and information about TNP's programming The season has shifted into summer: temperatures are warming, flowers blooming,  strawberries are heavy and ready for harvesting, busy bees are buzzing here and there--our June Partner Spotlight shines on Cassandra Clevenger, TNP's Community Resource Coordinator, who is at the center of much of this hive of activity. Ms. Clevenger is also part of the cohort representing HCP in the CDC's National Leadership Academy for the Public's Health and current Trumbull County Co-Chair [...]