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ACS client, Every Child Succeeds is front-page news regarding their national model to reduce infant mortality—data show that Every Child Succeeds has dropped infant mortality rate evenly across racial lines to 4.7 per 1,000 births! Read more below and click on the link to view the entire in-depth story. “What’s the best way to reduce […]

Via The Ohio 8 Coalition, ACS client, Cincinnati Public Schools’ innovative model for turning schoolhouses into Community Learning Centers has earned the district a National Community School Award for Excellence by the National Coalition for Community Schools.

ACS Client, The Ohio 8 Coalition, includes the State’s largest urban school districts — Akron, Canton, Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland and Youngstown. The Akron Beacon Journal article below found that students from these districts were 3.3 times more likely to be hit by a vehicle than in surrounding suburban districts because the state offers […]

Great work is only half of an organization’s success; the other half is sharing the story. That’s why the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority recently hired ACS to help boost its communications muscle. ACS will provide the Port with a new set of messages that clearly demonstrate its value to turn the surrounding community and residents […]

ACS leaders Lori McClung and Scarlett Bouder are presenting two public engagement and advocacy workshop sessions at the 2013 National Smart Start Conference in Greensboro, NC, April 29 — May 2. The workshop topics are “Prepare Your Organization to Build an Early Childhood Public Awareness Effort” on Wednesday, May 1, from 1:30-3:00 and “Advocacy, Communication […]

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) was recently highlighted in Education Week for implementing a bold and holistic strategy that turned around 13 of that city’s low performing buildings. Read more…

Who is an English-language learner? Across 50 states and tens of thousands of school districts, answers to that fundamental question can be quite different. But with the Common Core State Standards widely adopted, and common assessments under development to test those new standards, states are reaching a point where perhaps they can start to wrestle […]

ACS client, Every Child Succeeds, is featured in a column outlining the significant impact of the home visitation program, helping mothers, fathers, and babies get the best start possible to help prevent infant mortality, low weight births and encourage success in school—among many other positive measurable outcomes. See the video and read the article here…

Health Management Systems, Inc. (HMS), as a subcontractor to lead firm Accenture, has secured a portion of $300 million contract with the State of Ohio to provide a comprehensive revamp of the State’s 30-year-old IT structure that houses Medicaid and health and human services eligibility systems. HMS will provide a software solution to help verify […]

ACS has received national certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE). We’ve also been certified as a Small Business Enterprise (SBE) by Ohio’s largest County government, Cuyahoga County. Both of these certifications will help us reach new clients and build new organizational relationships in the coming year. […]