First Year Cleveland

06/18/2026

A warm welcome to our summer intern, Taylor D'Eramo! She is a rising junior at Colgate, majoring in Sociology with an interest in global maternal/infant health.

Taylor shared, “This summer I’m hoping to gain experience in the nonprofit world, understanding how organizations like First Year Cleveland work to make an impact in their respective communities.

06/17/2026

See below for details about ThirdSpace Action Lab’s upcoming Juneteenth events and check out their community events calendar on their website: https://3rdspaceactionlab.co/events

06/17/2026

Have you heard of Baby Bonds? Baby Bonds are an increasingly popular bipartisan government policy in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth.

Learn more about states and communities that have implemented Baby Bonds: bit.ly/4xw0D8r

More info at: bit.ly/4emVvux

Questions? Contact First Year Cleveland's Stacey Hren, one of three members of Ohio's Baby Bond Community of Practice at [email protected].

Explore baby bonds, a bipartisan policy proposal that’s gaining momentum, in which every child born into poverty receives a publicly funded trust account at birth.

06/16/2026

💙📚Join Beech Brook for an afternoon of stories, smiles, and summer fun at Books with the Brook: Backpacks, Books & Bright Futures! Families can enjoy story time, free books, community resources, and a backpack giveaway.

🗓️ Saturday, June 27
🕐 1:00–4:00 p.m.
📍 Garfield Heights Library
5409 Turney Road, Garfield Heights

At Beech Brook, we believe that every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive—and it all starts with connection. We hope you'll join us as we celebrate literacy, support families, and help build bright futures, one book at a time. 📖✨

💙Funding for Books with the Brook is generously provided by Ohio Children's Alliance 💙

06/16/2026

We’re thrilled to announce that our new First Year Connects app is now live! Please help us share the message far and wide that this app is available and has a wealth of resources for pregnancy and parenting through baby's first year.

Check it out using the links below!
On the web: bit.ly/4uydWCx
Apple store download: apple.co/4xtBlId
Google Play store download: bit.ly/4xsmg9D

06/15/2026

Join the First Year Cleveland community to empower yourself and your community to DO democracy!

At our next Community Partner Meeting we’ll review bills at the Ohio Statehouse, election year updates, plans for Infant Vitality Advocacy Day, and provide tools to support your clients, patients and community to VOTE!

🗓️ Thursday, August 6
🕢 Breakfast and networking at 8:30 am; meeting from 9–11 am
📍Tri-C Metro’s Jerry Sue Thornton Center

Save the date and look for registration coming soon!

06/11/2026

our June newsletter highlights upcoming opportunities to engage in this work through in-person meetings and events taking place throughout the summer. Read it here: bit.ly/4dHFQH9

If you haven’t already, please join our email list to get the next newsletter straight to your inbox! bit.ly/subscribe-FYC

June is here!! Summer breaks, vacations, outdoor activities, and most importantly, Father’s Day! In the maternal and infant health space, dads are sometimes left out of the conversation. We tend to focus our efforts on mom while she is pregnant and then the baby when they are born, which, in some ...

06/11/2026

We’d like to thank the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation for its support over the next two years allowing us to implement our new strategic plan. It’s because of generous support like this that our work to improve infant vitality is able to continue.

Read Mt. Sinai Health Foundation’s June grant announcement here: bit.ly/49PGLTH
Learn more about our strategic plan here: bit.ly/42olz2S

06/10/2026

“As long as we continue to do the work as a coalition and engage even more constituents across the state to connect with their legislators on the importance of the issue, I am fully confident that we can get SB 396 across the finish line,” said Executive Director Angela Newman-White.

Read more from this The Land article about SB 396, proposed legislation that would provide Ohio workers with 14-weeks of paid time off to care for a new child, ill family member or themselves.

Read the article here: https://thelandcle.org/stories/will-ohio-workers-finally-get-paid-leave-sb-396-promises-help-for-families-caregivers/

Learn more about the Time to Care Ohio Coalition: https://timetocareohio.org/

On April 23, State Senators Louis W. Blessing, III (R-Colerain Township) and Beth Liston (D-Dublin) announced Senate Bill 396 — paid family leave legislation that would support Ohio workers in need of time off to attend to personal health needs, whether it be for themselves or someone in their car...

06/10/2026

Please join our colleagues from Cuyahoga County Board of Health in partnership with Healthy Birth Day, Inc. and Count the Kicks, to increase fetal movement awareness and reduce fetal mortality. Complete this brief survey through mid-June: bit.ly/4fYyY9I