Thousands gathered at Celeste Center on a raining evening on Monday, May 7, 2012, to call for and then celebrate commitments from:
Juvenile Court Judge Elizabeth Gill to lead a planning process to find funding and develop procedures for nine community restorative justice boards to divert at least four hundred children out from the Juvenile Court system;
Ohio Medicaid Director John McCarthy to support a plan to place community health workers at each of the nine community health center sites in Columbus.
These health workers will conduct intensive follow-up with 300 of our sickest medicaid patients in our community to make sure that the find a "medical home."
City Councilman Zack Klein to work with BREAD leaders to raise new capital for micro-loans and City Councilman Troy Miller agreed to work with BREAD to plan and implement a market study to plan for the development of four small business incubators.
