Court Community Service (CCS) presented the 10th annual Ronald B. Adrine award at it’s annual luncheon on September 21, 2012 to Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry Emergency Men’s Homeless Shelter. The shelter, located at 2100 Lakeside Avenue in Cleveland, was chosen as this year’s recipient as result of the successful partnership they have had with CCS over the past 6 years. Since 2006, individuals referred to the shelter by CCS have completed more than 48,000 hours of community service work helping with a variety of tasks including food service, laundry, cleaning, and building maintenance.
The Board of Trustees of Court Community Service created the Ronald B. Adrine Award in 2002 to honor Judge Adrine. The award recognizes an individual or organization that demonstrates the qualities of creativity and leadership in the support and promotion of community service sentencing and the benefits it provides to our community
Judge Ronald B. Adrine was first elected to the Cleveland Municipal Court in 1982. After recognizing the need for alternative sentencing options and the benefits of community service work, Judge Adrine approached the Cleveland Foundation with a new and creative concept. The Cleveland Municipal Court would offer the program to other courts throughout Cuyahoga County and create a centralized, efficient means to administer community service sentencing. As a result of much planning and discussion, Court Community Service was founded in 1985. Judge Adrine’s vision created a program that would soon grow from serving fewer than 400 referrals in its first year to more than 12,000 annually.
Past Ronald B. Adrine Award recipients are:
St. Vincent de Paul Society (2002)
Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District (2003)
Harvard Community Services Center (2004)
The Cleveland Foundation (2005)
City of Cleveland Dept. of Aging (2006)
St. Augustine Church and Hunger Center (2007)
Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center and Family Thrift Stores (2008)
RET Job Corp (2009)
Burt W. Griffin (retired Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge) (2010)
Court Community Service Facts:
CCS was formed in 1985 under the leadership of Judge Ronald B. Adrine of the Cleveland Municipal Court.
- CCS has received nearly 230,000 community service referrals from courts throughout Cuyahoga County since 1985.
- Individuals assigned by CCS have completed nearly six million hours of community service work at hundreds of local charitable and governmental agencies. This represents a savings of more than $45.5 million to the community.
- CCS provides a cost effective alternative sentencing option that benefits the community at large and saves scarce and expensive jail space.
- CCS operates supervised work crew programs that collect litter along public roadways throughout Cuyahoga County. Since 1985, more than 700,000 bags of litter and more than 350,000 scrap tires have been collected by CCS work crews.
- CCS work crews provide services to non-profit and governmental agencies in Cleveland. Work crews perform neighborhood improvement projects including litter collection, community cleanups, and assisting not-for-profit agencies in Cleveland.
- CCS also operates a full-time supervised crew that works in conjunction with the City of Cleveland Dept. of Aging providing senior homeowners with lawn mowing, leaf raking, and other yard maintenance, as well as snow shoveling.
The photo from left to right.
Michael Moguel, Director of Shelter Operations; Charles See , LMM Vice President, Service Director of Community Re-Entry; Sheryl Thomas, Director Shelter Program; Trisha Brown, Shelter Board of Directors President; Michael Sering, LMM Vice President. Service Director of Housing and Homeless Services; Judge Ronald B. Adrine, Cleveland Municipal Court; Kelly Camlin, Associate Director of Housing and Homeless Services; Steven Mattlin, President - CCS Board of Trustees Lynne Sedensky, CCS Assistant Director; Paul Klodor, CCS Executive Director; David Blunt, First Shift Supervisor; John Schanz, Building Maintenance Supervisor; Stephen Jones, Second Shift Supervisor.