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Famicos is proud to be one of the organizations that was awarded funding by the Ohio Department of Health. We plan to use the funding we were awarded to hire a community health liaison to help run the lead remediation, food distribution, vaccination, and health screening programs in the Hough, Glenville and St.Clair-Superior neighborhoods.

Famicos is one of 150 community-based organizations across the country and one of only five in the State of Ohio to receive a large grant from the CDC Foundation to support our work to increase vaccination numbers among African Americans and Asians in Cleveland.

Famicos and other NeighborWorks network organizations are helping to overcome health disparities and vaccines to the people who need them the most.

In Ohio, only 77,000 African Americans have received their COVID vaccine while one million white Ohioans have received theirs. Famicos is on the front lines fighting yet another racial disparity.