“The founders of Welcome House and West Haven, the Steudel Family, had envisioned that persons with DD could live in group homes or family style homes that replicated as close as possible the kind of living that they were used to growing up.”
When friends and staff of Welcome House Inc. gather Friday at Brothers Lounge in Cleveland to celebrate the organization’s 40th anniversary, they will usher in the next generation of support for families touched by developmental disabilities.
Nick Alexander, president of the Welcome House board, is once again hosting his Pints for Pins event to raise funds for the organization’s bowling program. Nick has a son with autism and wanted to find an organization that supports developmental …
Welcome House Inc. moved its headquarters from Rocky River to Westlake last month. The move represents continued growth for the company, which offers group home living opportunities and community-based programming for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
A walk through Tower City this time of year is sure to evoke and create plenty of holiday memories. The Rocky River-based Welcome House is presenting Gingerbread Lane for the fourth year in a row at Tower City. Located on the …
A holiday tradition at downtown Cleveland’s Tower City Center continues with the Nov. 25 opening of Gingerbread Lane. Beautifully decorated gingerbread houses — this year with a “Holidays through the Year” theme — help to raise funds to benefit for …
Nick Alexander, a resident of Cleveland’s West Park neighborhood and president of the Welcome House Board of Trustees, was honored recently as one of Northeast Ohio’s Top 25 Under 35 Movers and Shakers.
Tony Thomas doesn’t mind being the one to clear the table and wash the dishes after dinner at Welcome House Inc. It’s a subtle gesture, but it’s one that earns him a level of respect from his 255 employees at …
Tony Thomas started running from his Coleridge Road home at 5:59 a.m. Aug. 11 and he didn’t stop until he reached his office in Rocky River. The 17.4 mile journey, which was part of a wellness initiative at his company, took …
Not-so-easy commute: Tony Thomas, executive director of Welcome House – an organization that runs assisted living facilities for people with developmental disabilities in the western suburbs — ran to work Thursday. No big deal, until you consider that he lives in Cleveland …
Homes are in foreclosure all around us these days but, in the case of a gingerbread house, foreclosure is best done with the mouth. It takes special chefs to make a gingerbread house designed with enough style to go on display …