HOPE Realized
In 2025, The Centers was focused on HOPE – Healing for our community, Optimism for the future, Partnership with key stakeholders who share our vision, and Enrichment opportunities for our clients and staff. We continued to provide a wide array of programs and services to over 21,000 individuals and families under our four pillars of care: Integrated Health and Wellness, Workforce Development, Early Learning and Family Support, and Youth Residential. We hope you enjoy exploring last year’s impact report and learning about all the ways we showed up for our community and reduced barriers to care and success.
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Agency Highlights
From the transformation of The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus, to planning for the Glick Recovery Campus, to continuously evolving our services, 2025 was a year of growth and adaptation. Click below to explore highlights from our four service areas:
Healing
Integrated Health & Wellness
Optimism
Early Learning & Family
Engagement
Partnership
Youth Residential
Enrichment
Workforce Development
Over 21,000 Northeast Ohioans served in 2025 by approximately 700 staff
Message From the President & CEO
To our supporters and stakeholders,
As I reflect on 2025, I am grateful and humbled by the many sparks of hope I witnessed every day—from our dedicated staff and leadership team, committed Board of Directors, the clients we serve, community partners, and our generous funders. Together, we faced new and unexpected challenges alongside exciting opportunities for growth and progress. The transformation of The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus® began in earnest, thanks to critical support—both in advocacy and financial contributions—from so many of our stakeholders. By reimagining how we care for young people in crisis and forging innovative partnerships, the H.O.P.E. Campus is providing a space for youth to heal, grow, and stabilize, knowing they are worthy and that they belong. We could not have done this without our community stakeholders believing in us, or without the grit and perseverance of our staff.
These same sentiments apply to the incredible planning and coordination efforts behind the Glick Recovery Campus (GRC), a behavioral health crisis center opening in September 2026. Leveraging a model of care not yet seen in Ohio, the GRC will support individuals in crisis move toward stability, reduce emergency room visits and incarcerations for behavioral health conditions, and provide timely, tailored care to people when they are most in need. We are not doing this alone, and I cannot thank enough the supporters, experts, community organizations, local government, and funders with whom we have collaborated for their commitment to this vital project.
This report also highlights our continued focus on adapting our programs and services to respond to an ever-changing needs landscape. From opening a second location for people to access Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) to strategic collaboration with community partners to transform the H.O.P.E. Campus to meet the needs of our community’s youth, we continue to rise to the occasion when a need is identified.
Guided by our shared purpose and disciplined stewardship, we ended the year in a positive financial position and with a strategic plan that will guide our work for the next 10 years. We’re excited to share more about that plan with you in the coming months. Transformation for a brighter tomorrow was more than a theme for 2025; it was and continues to be reflected in our core values of purpose, belonging, we can and we will, gratitude and growth, and bravery. These values shape how we show up for one another and for our community.
Looking ahead, our focus remains firmly on long-term impact—reimagining how we deliver care, responding thoughtfully to the evolving needs of our community, and deepening partnerships that foster healing and opportunity. While I know 2026 will involve continued complexity and hard work, I am confident that, together, we will meet the moment with courage, collaboration, and optimism, building a stronger future for the individuals and families who place their trust in us.
Eric L. Morse, MSSA, LISW-S
President & CEO
Message From the Board Chair
It is a privilege to serve on the Board of an organization so deeply committed to creating futures rooted in healing and possibility, even as community needs grow more complex amid an uncertain landscape. On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I extend my sincere gratitude to our donors and funders for believing in our mission; to our supportive community; and to the dedicated staff who bring this work to life. Your generosity and commitment enable us to serve thousands of Northeast Ohioans every year, as we strengthen and expand our programs and continually reimagine what comprehensive, responsive care and support can look like—no matter the challenges we face together.
I look forward to building even deeper partnerships alongside The Centers in 2026 and again thank all our stakeholders for their support and dedication to our community.
Brinton C. Lincoln
Board Chair
Community Engagement
Throughout the year, The Centers worked closely with Cuyahoga County, the ADAMHS Board of Cuyahoga County, our state legislators, state agency officials, congressional offices, and many other stakeholders to inform the planning and development of large projects we have underway. The construction of The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus, the forthcoming behavioral health crisis center, and our new Early Learning Center within the Parma Heights Library would not have been possible without the support and collaboration of our government and community partners. We are sincerely grateful to all the public officials who attended our two legislative breakfast events, the Groundbreaking Ceremony at The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus, the Sparks of HOPE event, or who toured one of our sites in 2025!
The Centers showed up for our LGBTQ+ neighbors by participating for the fourth year in a row at Pride in the CLE on June 7, marching and providing resources to the community.
We celebrated Juneteenth at Uptown with games, line dancing, food trucks, and vendors.
Our Community Engagement team shared information about our services—often alongside program staff—and linked community members to our resources by collaborating with dozens of organizations and events in 2025, including:
- City of Cleveland – Home for Every Neighbor
- Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA)
- Cleveland’s Annual Homeless Stand Down
- Cleveland Rape Crisis Center
- Cuyahoga Community College
- East Mt. Zion Community Health Fair
- The Friendly Inn
- The Job Corps
- Neighborhood Pets
- Shaker Heights Middle School
- Shiloh Baptist Church
- St. Ambrose Care Ambassador event
- Third Space Action Lab
- The 2025 Vet Connect event at Huntington Bank Field
- Thrive with Pride Health & Wellness Fair hosted by the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland
- Young Professionals of Parma
On September 18, we held the Sparks of HOPE fundraiser, where we brought friends and supporters together and raised over $150,000 toward the transformation of The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus. In recognition of their unwavering support for the Campus, Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie J. Antonio, and Medical Mutual were each presented with The Centers’ Champion Award. Our emcee for the evening, Katie Ussin of News 5 Cleveland, helped tell the story of the H.O.P.E. Campus’ impact in addressing our community’s child placement crisis.
Advocacy from our Leaders
The Centers does more than provide direct care; we serve as a leading voice for families at the state level. In May 2025, The Centers’ Chief of Programs Carole Beaty testified before the Senate Health Committee advocating for meaningful early childhood investments in Ohio’s state budget legislation, House Bill 96.
The Advocacy Platform: Our 2025 advocacy focused on the fundamental needs of working families:
- Affordability & Quality: Pushing for sustainable funding to ensure high-quality early childhood education remains affordable for all parents.
- Economic Impact: Highlighting that when children thrive and are kindergarten-ready, they build the foundation for a stronger, more resilient state economy.
- Workforce Stability: Advocating for policies that allow parents to work or attend school with the peace of mind that their children are in a safe, nurturing environment.
In partnership with Cuyahoga County, The Centers also successfully advocated for the inclusion of $20 million in House Bill 96 to support the development of regional Child Wellness Campuses modeled after The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus. This statewide recognition of the H.O.P.E. Campus as an emerging as a model for trauma-informed, dignified residential care shined a light on The Centers and Cuyahoga County’s innovative solutions to a complex issue.
2025 Leadership
2025 Board of Directors
Angela Beasley Fielding
Director, Provider Experience and Transformation
Humana Inc.
Camille Billups
Managing Director, Sites
Team NEO
Daniel S. Blain
CEO
Jewish Community Board of Akron
James M. Crane
Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel – Global Architectural
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Rebekah Dorman
Principal/Founder
Kadima Consulting LLC
Robert Faxon
Partner
Jones Day
Lisa B. Forbes
Judge
Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals
Rev. Dr. Lisa M. Goods
Senior Pastor
Shiloh Baptist Church
David H. Gunning II
Member
McDonald Hopkins, LLC
Moses Jhirad
Managing Director, Midwest Regional Group Manager
PNC Healthcare
PNC Bank, NA
Brandon Jirousek
Senior Vice President, Digital Experience
Cleveland Cavalier
Rob Kochis
Managing Director
The Townsend Group
Pamela LeRose
Senior Vice President
Commercial Banking Team Leader – Cleveland
First National Bank
Brinton C. Lincoln
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer & Chief Financial Officer
Selman Co.
Letitia Lopez
Executive Director
Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center
Donald A. Malone, Jr.
Emeritus Staff
Cleveland Clinic
Tracey N. Mason
Chief Administrator, Nonprofit Executive
Stephen McHale
Founder, Director & CEO
Graici
Bradley Ngah Ouambo
Partner
Frantz Ward, LLP
Selina M. Pagán
Executive Director
Young Latino Network
Venyce Sanders
Senior Manager, Sustainability Compliance Assurance
Eaton
Manuela W. Weeber
Executive Administrator
Lake Shore Christian Church
Seth M. Wolf
Deputy General Counsel
University Hospitals Health System
Susan Yarborough
VP and Zonal Clients Solutions Manager
AIG (retiree)
2025 Associate Board
Sarah Slack, Chair
Nichole Davis, Vice Chair
Ashley Bailes, Secretary
Brett Litzler, Leadership Chair
Meghan McHale, Volunteer Chair
Rebecca Plow, Fundraising Chair
Andris Balodis
Kasia Bufford
Victoria Byler
Saba Khalid
Ryan Moore
Asha Sethuraman
Jarin Vaughn
Ex Officio Directors
President & CEO, The Centers
Associate Board Chair
Associate Board Vice Chair
Emeritus Directors
John W. Ball, DDS
Erskine Cade
Leonard H. Calabrese, DO
John Corlett
Elizabeth Porter Daane
Patrick J. Dugan*
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Sondra Hardis
Matthew C. Litzler
Bruce McCrodden
Donald H. Messinger, Esq.
Carol Metz, Esq.
Jeffrey Milbourn
Chuck Niles
Debra Rex
Nancy G. Rome
Margo Roth
Marc A. Sanchez
Jean Sarlson
Linda Schneider
Stephen F. Thome
The Centers Executive Leadership
Eric L. Morse, MSSA, LISW-S
President & CEO
Carole Beaty, MPOD
Chief Program Officer
Kerry Bohac, PHR, SHRM-CP
Chief Operating Officer
Vincent Caringi, M.D.
Chair, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Christine Gambatese, MBA, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Leon Harris, Ph.D.
EVP Quality Improvement and Evaluation
Dodie Rimmelin, M.D.
Chair of Primary Care
Stacey Rubenfeld, MPA
Chief of Institutional Advancement
Christie Tatman-Stroh, MNAL
EVP Growth and Project Management
Dawnya Underwood, LMSW
Executive Director, The Centers’ H.O.P.E. Campus®
Martin Williams, MSSA, LISW-S
EVP Behavioral Health and Social Services
Elena Yanchar, D.O.
Chair of Psychiatry
Accreditations and Awards
Accreditations and Certifications
Members
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