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Lula Holt Robertson
Director of Communication
(216) 736-2691
robertson.lula@CuyahogaBDD.org
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Archive of events and news releases
2012
- Check out our Euclid Adult Activities Center's mural project.
- Flame concert a hit! The rock band from upstate New York made up of 10 people who have developmental/physical disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome and blindness, kicked off DD Awareness Month with a sold out show March 2 at the House of Blues in downtown Cleveland. Rule 11 & the Sanctions from Jones Day and Ulmrer & Berne law firms opened the show for Flame. The event was jointly sponsored by the Arc of Greater Cleveland and the Cuyahoga County Board of DD. Read more about and hear Flame.
- Each year, we promote Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in March along with other organizations that serve people with developmental disabilities throughout Ohio. The goal is to increase the public's awareness and understanding of people who have developmental disabilities so that these citizens have increased access to employment, education, housing and social opportunities. Take a look at our billboards, which appeared in 20 locations around Cuyahoga County, and our video spots, which ran on cable.
- The Sprout Film Festival brought an end of this year's Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month events. The festival featured films by, for and about people with developmental disabilities. If you weren't able to attend, take a peek at one of the films, Up Syndrome. Or look over the synopses of the films from our festival and call (216) 310-3763 or email our Instructional Media Center if you'd like to borrow one or more. (Some of the films were not available for institutional purchase, so we do not have them all.) If you'd like to purchase streaming video, downloadable media or DVDs from Sprout, you will be supporting the filmmakers and the work they do, go to www.sproutflix.org. Use fundraising code 1203D when ordering, and Sprout will donate 25 percent of your purchase to the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities PTCU Foundation, our parents group.
- Congratulations to the Cuyahoga County Board of DD's Rockets, winners of the 2012 Men's Division I State Special Olympics Basketball Championship!
The Rockets kicked off the state tournament on Friday, March 30, with a 64-34 win over the Erie County Bucks. Keeping their focus, the team roared back on Saturday morning to defeat the Hamilton County Ballers by a score of 67-40 to win the State Championship! This championship was well deserved and was the culmination of six months of hard work. The last time the Rockets were state champs was in 1997. Since then, there have been many second-place finishes. This victory made all of those efforts worth the wait!
2012 Rockets Roster
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Eric Bouyer
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Floyd Osborn
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James Brady
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Ray Slaughter
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Alonzo Etheridge
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Bryant Taylor
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Reggie Morman
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Leonard Thompson
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Willie Morman
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Lester Williams
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Anthony Napier
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Ricky Wright
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Rockets Coaches
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Tyrone McCann |
Mary Lombardo |
Terrell McCann |
Rockets Assistant
- Congratulations to the Cuyahoga Board of DD's Eagles
The Eagles, our school-age basketball team, won their unified tournament March 3 undefeated this season! This team consists of players with and without disabilities. We are so proud of them as they represent the Board of DD in such a positive way out in the community! Go, Eagles!
- Cuyahoga Board of DD publications win statewide awards
The 2010 Annual Report: Together and the 2011 winter card won awards of merit at this year's Ohio Public Images Media and Awareness Awards March 19 in Columbus. The awards program, conducted as a part of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, recognizes members of the media and developmental disabilities organizations for their efforts to create greater public awareness and acceptance of people with developmental disabilities. See all of the award winners.
- New manager at Maple Heights
- Community-Based Care Conference
This one-day event featured Leon Evans and Gilbert Gonzales from the Center for Health Services in San Antonio, Texas, exploring effective ways of meeting the needs of those with multiple disabilities, particularly developmental disabilities and severe mental illness.
- Razzle Dazzle 12: We Are Family!
The cast and crew of Razzle Dazzle produced another stellar original show with “We Are Family!” May 4-5 at the Beck Center for the Performing Arts in Lakewood. The performers are part of an inclusive musical theater group based at our Rocky River Adult Activities Center and include individuals from that center and our Northwest Employment Services. Audiences totaled more than 650 for the three performances, a record!
Archive of events and news releases
2011
- Board of DD volunteers featured on WCPN Long-time volunteers at our Rocky River Adult Activities Center, Tim and Joanne Clemens, appeared on WCPN-90.3 FM's The Sound of Ideas to talk about their commitment to individuals with developmental disabilities. Also featured on the show is Bill Member, who established RePlay, an organization that adapts toys for use by children with disabilities, after volunteering with CHIP, our program that refurbishes used computers for use by children and adults with developmental disabilities.
- Just-A-Buck II now open on the East Side
Owned and operated by SAW, Inc., the nonprofit division of the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, the store employs 15 workers with developmental disabilities who handle stocking and receiving, cleaning, check-out and bagging.
This is the second Just-A-Buck store operated by SAW. The first, in the Midtown Shopping Center in Parma, opened in 2009. See what WKYC-Channel 3 said about the new store. See what WKYC-Channel 3 said about the new store.
If you are in the area of Mayfield and South Green in South Euclid, please stop by! You can save money while helping people with DD earn a paycheck.
Store Hours: Monday through Saturday 9 am-9 pm, Sunday 11 am-6 pm
Maymore Plaza, 4507 Mayfield Road, South Euclid (next to Marc's), (216) 291-2825 (BUCK)
- New executive director named at SAW, Inc.
Richard Hoban takes on leadership of SAW, Inc., the Board of DD's nonprofit division.
- Catch the American spirit beginning September 9 at HeARTworks, and for a video peek inside our store located in the Galleria downtown, check us out on CoolClevleand.com
- Did you know that we're a big part of the #1 urban farming community in the U.S. right here in Cleveland?
- It may have taken forever to get those plants in because of the wet spring,
but the crops are starting to come in. Stop by one of our urban farms every week for fresh veggies. Locations in Ohio City, on East 105th and at our original Stanard Farm.
- Thanks for your support of the Friends of DD
We are grateful to all of those who took part in the 20th Annual Friends of DD golf outing as sponsors, donors, players and volunteers.
- Did you hear about our Just-A-Buck store and other employment ventures on WDOK?
Catch Jim McIntyre's interview now. (Just-A-Buck is in Parma, near Snow and Broadview Roads, and an East Side location, at Mayfield and Green Roads in South Euclid, will open later this year. And, yes, everything is just a buck!)
- Acting GM of Community & Medicaid Services named
John Parkowski will fill the position of acting GM for the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities' Community & Medicaid Services Division.
- New assistant superintendent named
Kelly Connor Petty has been named assistant superintendent of the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities.
- Cuyahoga Board of DD named to 2011 Top Workplace in Northeast Ohio by The Plain Dealer
We're pleased to announce that we have been named a 2011 "Top Workplace" in Northeast Ohio as ranked by WorkplaceDynamics and published in The Plain Dealer. The Cuyahoga Board of DD ranked #10 out of 28 large organizations (500+ employees) on the list and was one of a total of 132 organizations named. Congratulations to our staff for making this recognition possible! Read our profile on cleveland.com.
- East Cleveland center dedicates labyrinth
The labyrinth at our East Cleveland Adult Activities Center was nine months in the making.
- Recapping Razzle Dazzle
Performers from our Rocky River Adult Activities Center's talented inclusive musical theater program skipped, swayed and danced their way through "Green Acres" looking for their "Pink Cadillac" in the "Purple Rain" May 6-7 at the Beck Center. If you missed the show (or if you were there and want to recapture a few moments), take a look.
- Diabetes and developmental disabilities
If you weren't able to attend our March 2011 educational forum, The Diabetes Dilemma, here's an overview of the presentation on how to best assist people with DD in managing their diabetes.
- Pulleys Coffeehouse 36
Visit our cafe located in Tyler Village.