DAYTON, OH – The non-profit arm of a local real estate investment firm is partnering with one of the country’s top psychiatric hospitals on a Dayton-based groundbreaking research project aimed at understanding the biologic link between childhood hardships and mental disorders. The study, dubbed the Connor-McLean Healthy Kids Development Program, is a combined effort of
On the south side of Columbus, in a low-income neighborhood, is an early education and child care program that this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. But the work being done within its walls has little to do with the traditional 4-year-old nursery school model. Quite the contrary. The work being done in recent years at
Hospital launches partnership, innovative mental health program
After the storm As Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas in 2019, The Connor Group sprang into action once again asking, “How can we help?” Kids & Community associate Chip Faruki immediately began formulating a strategy. He reached out to Matthew 25: Ministries – a Cincinnati-based nonprofit that specializes in disaster relief. Together, they devised a
A Burden Lifted Casey Petrae is an achiever. Senior class vice-president, prom king, active in volunteer work, leader of the school spirit squad, works part-time during the school year, full-time during the summer. He’s shown so much responsibility and maturity beyond his years that his classmates in Vandalia Butler’s class of 2019 nicknamed him the
