With the support of our generous donors and funders, last year alone, Greenleaf Family Center served more than 25,750 individuals through behavioral health and prevention services, family support and education, and D/deaf and Hard of Hearing services and support.
Year-end donations provide flexible, year-round operating support that allows us to do what we do best as we serve individuals, children and families across greater Akron with compassion, dignity and care.
A gift of any amount helps ensure that no one has to face life's challenges alone.
Client Story: Randae - Looking for Help and Finding Community
It started with just looking for some help. Greenleaf client Randae was having a difficult 2025. Experiencing housing instability and unemployment, and raising one son by herself, with one on the way (a third, her oldest, was living with his grandfather), her mental health was suffering, and she was having a hard time managing her anger. She needed a helping hand.
Through Greenleaf's Family First Steps program, what she got was a not only a community of helpers and friends, but the support she needed to turn things around for herself and her family.
Read Randae's inspiring story: https://www.greenleafctr.org/news/randaes-story
Client Story: Katie and Jackson - Creating a Village at Greenleaf
Tuesdays have become the best days for Jackson and his mom, Katie. On Tuesdays, 7-year-old Jackson looks forward all day to his visit with Chelsea Spoonamore, his counselor at Greenleaf Family Center.
“He runs up to the door,” Katie says, laughing. “He’s raring to go.”
Chelsea, a licensed behavioral health clinician, has been seeing Jackson since he was in kindergarten (he just started second grade in August). She provides Jackson, who has been diagnosed with childhood anxiety, ADHD, and level 1 autism, with a safe space where he can express his feelings and be himself.
“We use game play to help Jackson grow more comfortable with his feelings,” Chelsea said. "Sometimes, he shows me big feelings that only his mom sees. I’m proud to be his safe person.”
Read Katie and Jackson's full story: https://www.greenleafctr.org/news/katie-and-jackson
Greenleaf Impact on the Community 2025
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