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Council reviews community relations and youth programs; PIO outlines youth-employment slate and Cleveland Thrives update

Cleveland City Council Finance Committee · February 23, 2026
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Directors from the Community Relations Board and Prevention, Intervention & Opportunity described outreach, violent-interruption work, rec-center staffing, and a proposed $3.4M contracts slate; PIO reported 4,509 case-management contacts in 2025 and progress on a nearly $2M DOJ Cleveland Thrives grant.

The finance committee heard presentations from the Community Relations Board (CRB) and the Prevention, Intervention & Opportunity (PIO) office on proposed 2026 budgets, contracted programming and youth-employment efforts.

CRB Executive Director Angela Shute Woodson described the board’s district representative network, youth-diversion work and school-based outreach. Woodson said district representatives cover all five police districts and highlighted recent work in CMSD schools: "We are in 10 high schools," she said, and reported measurable declines in fighting at several schools where…

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