Compass, Community Solutions to Merge July 1
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Compass Family & Community Services and Community Solutions Association are merging, the organizations announced Monday, which will enable “a broadening of services in multiple sites within the Mahoning Valley.”
The combined organization will be called Compass Family & Community Services. Joe Caruso, president and CEO of Compass, will retain his leadership role when the merger takes effect July 1.
The nonoprofit agencies’ “missions and visions are closely aligned as evidenced by service to the community and strong penchant for working cooperatively with a variety of community partners,” Caruso said. “Each organization is bringing with it a working knowledge of the communities they operate in and a passion for the populations they serve.”
Compass, based in Youngstown, was formed in July 1, 2011 with the consolidation of the Burdman Group and Family Service Agency.
Caruso says his agency provides programs that “care for people from infancy through old age” in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana and Jefferson counties. The agency's programs include: the Center for Workforce Development, Financial Education Services, Sojourner House Domestic Violence Services, the Rape Crisis & Counseling Center, Daybreak Youth Crisis Shelter, Guardianship, Ryan White Medical Case Management Services, Counseling Services, Riverbend Center-Crisis Stabilization Unit, the Doris Burdman Home-Residential Treatment Center and an Intensive Community Treatment Team.
Community Solutions Association, based in Warren, was created in 2000 with the merger of 2 North Park Inc. and the Family Service Association of Trumbull County. Services are organized along a prevention-intervention and treatment continuum, says the agency’s president and CEO, Ken Lloyd. Its mission is to help individuals “develop knowledge, attitudes and skills to make positive life choices,” he notes.
“The integration of the two organizations’ programs and services establishes a synergy for program improvement and fertile ground for creativity in establishing future offerings for Valley residents,” Lloyd says.
Published by The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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