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This Archive contains information and available recordings for Forums since January 1, 2020.

All Forums since January 1, 2017 have been recorded and most are available on our YouTube page.

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Food Insecurity Challenges & Solutions

Speakers: Darcy Freedman, PhD, Professor, CWRU School of Medicine Julie Johnson, CEO, The Hunger Network. Food insecurity has increased since the pandemic, with an estimated 226,000 people hungry in Cuyahoga ...
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Constitutional Crisis, Insurrection or Democracy….in 2024

Speakers: Jonathan Entin, JD, CWRU Emeritus Law and Political Science Professor Cherie Strachan, PhD, Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics University of Akron How will the 2022 election ...
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Labor Shortage: What’s the Future in Northeast Ohio and Beyond?

Speakers: Bethia Burke, President, Cleveland-based Fund for our Economic Future Jacob Duritsky, Vice President, Strategy & Research, Team Northeast Ohio (Team NEO) Studies show that labor shortages are still prevalent ...
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Water: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘til It’s Gone

Speakers: Kristin Hall, Executive Director, Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District Judy Huichun Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, CWRU Lake Erie is an asset of Ohio that is ...
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Midterm Elections: Meltdown, Referendum or Party Switching?

Speaker: Tom Sutton PhD, Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University Inflation, gas prices, guns violence abortion and democracy itself. All are on the ballot. The party that occupies the ...
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Financial Challenges of Healthcare

Speaker: Donna Graham, Vice President, Revenue Cycle, MetroHealth Medical Center; Kinsey Jolliff, Principal, Health Policy & Payment Innovation, The MetroHealth System. Staffing shortages, rising expenses, supply chain issues and limited ...
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Where Have All the (Aﬀordable) Houses Gone?

Speakers: Sally Martin, Director, and Tim Kobie, Manager, Strategic Code Enforcement Initiatives, both of Cleveland Building and Housing Department Ayonna Blue Donald, Vice President, Ohio Market, Enterprise Community Partners The ...
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Getting to Know Non-Binary People

Speakers: Kate Mozynski, Staff Attorney, Equality Ohio; Phyllis "Seven" Harris, Executive Director, LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland Most of us know people who are gay, lesbian or transgender, but ...
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Post-Roe: Impact & Options

Speakers: Adarsh Krishen MD, MMM, FAAFP, Chief Medical Oﬃcer, Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio Mary Schatzman RN, gynecology, Northeast Ohio Women's Center What will the vulnerable do without Roe? A ...
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Guns: How Can We Keep Our Loved Ones Safe?

Speakers: Brent Larkin, Columnist, cleveland.com Ohio State Senator Matt Dolan (R-24) Gun deaths rose 43% from 2010 to 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. The Gun Violence Archive reports ...
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Forums open to the community have been a distinctive part of UUCC’s tradition for many years. During Forums That Matter, leading experts and leaders present current, thought-provoking forums on a wide variety of issues that affect us as individuals, the communities in which we live and the world beyond.

Attendees from both inside and outside the congregation exchange views and participate in stimulating question-and-answer sessions to create a stronger, more accountable, informed community.

The weekly forums support the Unitarian Universalists’ fourth principle, “free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” They encourage personal reflection, social action and individual and collective growth for all who attend.

On Sunday mornings during fall and winter, the forums are held both virtually and in person at the Shaker Heights location. They break new ground in the continuing search for truth and importance of serving others.

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