Catholic Community Connection

Catholic Community Connection is a unique collaboration of Catholic-sponsored education, health care, human services and senior living ministries. Working out of a shared mission of Catholic identity and values, Catholic Community Connection fosters collaboration in response to human needs across all stages of life.

Catholic Community Connection offers valuable programs, services and resources for individuals, groups and communities across Northeast Ohio. Equally important is the organization’s role of convener, catalyst, clearinghouse and community connector. Each member organization is an important anchor in the community and contributes to the well-being of Cleveland’s civic fabric.

A strategic planning process in 2008 set the stage for new, community-based activities from Catholic Community Connection, including marketing and outreach; wellness programming; increased utilization of group purchasing; more robust coordination of care and services, including a dedicated phone line and an experienced Nurse Navigator; and new collaborative efforts to better advocate for sound public policy to strengthen communities and families, especially the vulnerable, persons with disabilities, children and seniors.

Learn more at www.catholiccommunityconnection.org.

Len Calabrese

President,
Catholic Community Connection

Leonard M. Calabrese has been president of Catholic Community Connection since 2008. Before that, he served for 20 years as executive director of the Commission on Catholic Community Action at Catholic Charities Health and Human Services, Diocese of Cleveland. He was an adjunct faculty at John Carroll University in 2007 and taught Catholic Social Teaching at St. Mary's Seminary in 2002. From 1977 until 1987, Mr. Calabrese was on the faculty at The University of Akron. Len has served on numerous boards of local and national organizations. Read More »