Community Services

Community Centers

King-Kennedy Community Center
The King-Kennedy Community Center's mission statement is to join in the collective effort to better the Portage County Community by volunteering at the King-Kennedy Center and working with area residents to improve living conditions.

Skeels-Mathews Community Center
Skeels is a community center which provides services and programs for all Portage County residents. The mission of Skeels Community Center is to improve the educational, physical, cultural, and social aspects of the community and surrounding areas.

Chagrin Falls Park Community Center
Community Centers promote activities, self awareness, and pride for ones own local community. Centers typically offer recreational, educational, and social activities for people of all ages. Often times, Community Centers target marginal and/or low-income areas and are located in either rural or inner city areas.

Kent Social Services
Feeding the hungry and providing emergency services to persons in the City of Kent and Franklin Township.

Center of Hope & Christian Cupboard
Opened in November of 1989, its mission is to serve hot meals and provide an emergency food pantry, along with referral and advocacy services.

Technology Training

King-Kennedy Community Center
The King-Kennedy Community Center's mission statement is to join in the collective effort to better the Portage County Community by volunteering at the King-Kennedy Center and working with area residents to improve living conditions.

Skeels-Mathews Community Center
Skeels is a community center which provides services and programs for all Portage County residents. The mission of Skeels Community Center is to improve the educational, physical, cultural, and social aspects of the community and surrounding areas.

Chagrin Falls Park Community Center
Community Centers promote activities, self awareness, and pride for ones own local community. Centers typically offer recreational, educational, and social activities for people of all ages. Often times, Community Centers target marginal and/or low-income areas and are located in either rural or inner city areas.

School Based Services
School-Based Services provides educational opportunities, emotional support, mentoring and after school programs for at-risk kids in Portage County. more>

Socialization

King-Kennedy Community Center
The King-Kennedy Community Center's mission statement is to join in the collective effort to better the Portage County Community by volunteering at the King-Kennedy Center and working with area residents to improve living conditions.

Skeels-Mathews Community Center
Skeels is a community center which provides services and programs for all Portage County residents. The mission of Skeels Community Center is to improve the educational, physical, cultural, and social aspects of the community and surrounding areas.

Chagrin Falls Park Community Center
Community Centers promote activities, self awareness, and pride for ones own local community. Centers typically offer recreational, educational, and social activities for people of all ages. Often times, Community Centers target marginal and/or low-income areas and are located in either rural or inner city areas.

Kent Social Services
Feeding the hungry and providing emergency services to persons in the City of Kent and Franklin Township.

Center of Hope & Christian Cupboard
Opened in November of 1989, its mission is to serve hot meals and provide an emergency food pantry, along with referral and advocacy services.

senior companion program
The Senior Companion Program, one of only six in Ohio, provides an avenue for income-eligible seniors to earn a modest tax-exempt stipend. They volunteer 20 hours each week in the homes of the elderly writing letters, preparing meals, assisting with light house work, and other tasks as needed. This program is provided in Portage, Summit and Stark counties. >more

Foster grandparents program
(Portage, Stark, Mahoning and Trumbull)
The Foster Grandparent Program is a volunteer service that gives a child the much needed attention that can change their life.