Poverty-hit parents a target of plan

A plan to help parents experiencing poverty in the Cincinnati region get and keep jobs is set to be released soon.

The Child Poverty Collaborative is scheduled to unveil its anti-poverty action plan in January, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Dave Herche, a member of the collaborative’s management council, has pledged $1 million a year for five years to pay for the initiative.

The collaborative said the plan includes several elements to help the under-employed get jobs and remain employed, including helping with transportation and providing emergency funds and wrap-around services like legal aid and family services, according to the newspaper.

The Enquirer reports that a recently released U.S. Census Bureau estimate shows poverty for children in Cincinnati remains above 40 percent with little improvement since the Great Recession.

Police were called around 12:30 a.m. about a shooting on the 1800 block of East 19th Street near Cleveland State University. A 24-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his side was brought to MetroHealth, police said.

The third shooting occurred about 2 a.m. at East 93rd Street and Benham Avenue in Cleveland’s Union-Miles Park neighborhood, police said.

Men in a car fired shots at Cleveland police officers, according to police. No officers were hurt and they did not return fire, police said. One man is in custody.

About five minutes later, officers responded to another shooting about two blocks away, police said.

Someone shot a 53-yearold woman in the leg in the area of East 93rd Street and Union Avenue about 2:05 a.m., police said. She was driven in a private car to MetroHealth.

Officers responded about 2:15 a.m. for a call about a shooting in the area of East 78th Street and Carnegie Avenue in the city’s Fairfax neighborhood. A 27-year-old man suffered two gunshot wounds to his abdomen and buttocks, police said.

Officers responded to the sixth shooting about 2:20 a.m. on the 3400 block of East 143rd Street in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, police said.

A 37-year-old man was brought to University Hospitals for gunshot wounds to his legs, according to police.