Basic Information
Funding
This organization seeks funds from contributions and grants. These funds will be used for unrestricted
operating expenses and special projects.
Locations Served
Chief Executive Profile
Samieka Mitchell, Executive Director, graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Sociology. She was awarded the "International Who's Who" of Public Service Award for 2002. It was during
her second year of college that one of her Anthropology professors, Dr. Jill Korbin, offered her a job working as a
Research Assistant for a research project on Child Abuse and Neglect. This position eventually led her to eight years of
social research, even at other institutions as Kent State University, Temple University, Cleveland State University, and
Akron University.
Having worked on several different social research projects in the past, she came across
practically every social issue concerning America today. She worked on research projects where participants were
people who were abusing drugs and/or alcohol, people who were selling drugs, victims of domestic violence, both male
and female, perpetrators of domestic violence, both male and female, victims of child abuse and neglect, perpetrators of
child abuse and neglect, issues of poverty, people dependent on welfare, people with not enough education and/or skills
to obtain suitable employment, single parents, both male and female, who were struggling to make ends meet, families
with unfit living conditions, and more.
An estimated 90% of all the people she was in contact with while working on
these research projects asked for her help in some capacity. While most of the projects she worked for required that she
not get personally involved in the lives of the research participants in fear that it would skew the data, she was unable
to provide the help that she knew she was able to give them at that time. Just by asking for her help let her know that
people recognize a need for change in their lives, but just don't know how or where to obtain it. Often, the help they
needed was inaccessible or unaffordable to them. Ms. Mitchell knew that there was something she could do to help meet the
needs of the people in the community. She felt in her spirit that there must be something more that she was supposed to
be doing. God gave her a vision for a multi-service, multi-program facility that would meet the most predominant needs
of people in the community, thus, the birth of THE CLEVELAND CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION.
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