Mission
- Outreach and educate
- Pre-K through senior citizens
- Role of the Coroner’s Office in death investigation
- Highlight careers in scientific, medical, and forensic fields
- Educate the public about the Coroner’s Office role in organ and tissue procurement
- Emphasize the importance and benefits of becoming an organ/tissue donor
- Provide first-hand information regarding the possible outcomes of risky behaviors
- Focus on education involving safety measures and prevention
Vision
- Through outreach endeavors we are striving to achieve awareness and personal responsibility for the betterment of the greater community
- Provide individual opportunities for high school students to explore career interests in this expansive forensic field
- Continue to showcase our agency through tours and presentations
- Develop and build relationships with non-profit, city, state, and national organizations to collaborate for a common cause and explore solutions
- Societal issues that affects and involves multiple agencies
- Information
- Foster improved communication
- Education
- Heighten awareness for other organizations dealing with common issues and services so that we can better serve the community
- Directly informing constituents about our services
Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office Community Outreach Specialists
Blythe Kilcoyne
216.698-4590
Noreen Kyle
216.698-4608
Current Programs:
Programs include but not limited to:
- Careers in the scientific, medical, and forensic fields
- Our role in death investigation, and how the CCCO carries out this public service
- Civic program: CCCO role in death investigation, cover historic photos and cases
- Risky behaviors and prevention: aggressive driving, drinking/underage drinking, drugs, STD’s, teen pregnancy, violence/aggression, gangs. . .all encompass decision-making, short-term and long-term decisions
- Gun safety, pre-K through 4th grade with Eddie Eagle
- LifeBanc, organ and tissue donation
- In-service for medical staff: hospitals, long-term medical care centers, and nursing facilities about how to proceed/reporting a coroner’s cases
- Shadow Program for high school students
- Assets and Character Development