CHRC > Programs & Services

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Community Outreach

• Complaints – CHRC receives and investigates complaints regarding discrimination based on race, age, disability, gender, and sexual orientation; economic and housing discrimination; and other issues of human relations.  Individual and issue-oriented concerns are investigated and/or referred as needed.

• Conflict Mediation – CHRC has trained and certified mediation staff available to resolve issues involving community-wide crisis, racial/ ethnic disputes, and hate crimes.

• In-Focus Cable News Program - Interviews and has panel discussions about human relations issues. (Aired on Time Warner cable channel 23).

• CHRC's In-Focus with Youth "Debaters" cable news program coming this year!

• Community Relations Monitors (CRM) – Watches over the City of Cincinnati's neighborhoods; assists in monitoring crowds at local events - diffuse potentially dangerous situations.

• Resource Fairs – More to come.

Adult Outreach

• Community Outreach Workers – Conducts an assessment of needs in neighborhoods that have the highest levels of human relations needs. Works with community councils to address specific community needs.

• CHRC Mentors – Provides one-on-one mentoring to clients referred by HCDDS (ages 18-25 years). Clients are ex-offenders or are at risk of becoming offenders to the criminal justice system. Mentors serve as positive role models and engage the mentees in activities that enable them to practice healthy behaviors within a positive social relationship. Mentors help clients learn to make good decisions and avoid mistakes.

Youth Outreach

• Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) – Project-based community service program for youth on parole. They preform services on Saturday. The program receives support from the Ohio Department of Youth Services and the Cincinnati Police Department.

• Great Youth Debate - Includeds training youth in research, formal debate format, and persuasive public speaking skills.

• Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) - A partnership with Procter & Gamble Foundation, City of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency.

• Peace Bowl – Youth football tournament between neighborhood teams. The event is held in August as a community-building event to promote peace and harmony.

Annual Events

• Human Relations Month (Month of March) – Established in 2007.The month of March has several gatherings that include an Intergenerational Youth Luncheon, International Event Festival, and a Senior Citizens' Luncheon.

• Human Relations Summit – Held in November. Provides an opportunity for community members to participate in an interactive panel discussion addressing important human relations issues facing Cincinnati.

• Disability Awareness Month event on Fountain Square - Was held in October 2007 and 2008 to recognize organizations that advance employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

Safety and Police Community Relations

• Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV)

• Unites community members, service providers, and law enforcement in a coordinated partnership to keep young men from resorting to gun-violence.

• CIRV Streetworkers identify violent groups in the community, interact and work with the community to send the to reinforce positive behavior.

• Partners with University of Cincinnati Division of Criminal Justice, Hamilton County Adult Probation, Society for Advancing and Reforming Felons, Straight to the Heart, Out of the Crossfire, and Urban League of Greater Cincinnati.

• Provides outreach for CeaseFire Cincinnati through Community Police Partnering Center.