About Summit County Community Partnership
Our Mission
Summit County Community Partnership is a consortium of community resources committed to preventing substance abuse in Summit County. Our mission is to facilitate coalitions of community resources in order to prevent alcohol, drug abuse, and problem gambling in Summit County. We use evidence-based prevention techniques, information, and activities in an attempt to infuse them into every community system.
Our History
Summit County Community Partnership was founded in 1990 as a response to the costly impact of substance abuse in our community. A coalition of more than 180 businesses, municipalities, organizations, and community activists came together to implement environmental strategies that would decrease the amount of substance abuse in Summit County. In 1998, Summit County Community Partnership was granted 501(c)3, tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.
Since our founding in 1990, we have been on the front-end of addressing community-wide drug epidemics such as:
- 2007- Methamphetamine epidemic
- 2011- Bath Salts, K2 Spice problem
- 2012- Marijuana Summit
- 2014- Powdered Alcohol
- 2016- Graduated National Coalition Academy
As a founding member of the Summit County Opiate Task Force formed
Meet The Team
Darryl A. Brake
Executive Director
dbrake@cpsummit.org
Larry McCulloh
Operations Coordinator
lmcculloh@cpsummit.org
Board of Trustees
Michael Van Buren
President
Attorney
Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
Jan Wagner
Vice-President
Chief Executive Officer
CHC Addiction Services
Michael Evans
Director
Government Relations
Cleveland Clinic
Elizabeth Piatt, PhD
Director
Assistant Dean, Academic Diversity Success
Kent State University