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Passion from Day One:

Words from the VP

-Juan Hall, Vice President CHOICES “Kids were coming to us because their parents needed help.”

As Vice President of CHOICES Behavioral Health Care, Juan Hall manages the daily operations of all of the program’s multiple locations. The program was founded in 2011 on the core principle of empowering people to make well-informed decisions that would lead them to better their lives. When the program first started, it was primarily focused on addressing inner-city gang activity and youth who were dropping out of school. “Each of these cases is a result of dysfunctional situations, broken families, or drug-related issues,” Hall said. “We were trying to work with the kids to address some of those core issues.” When the program’s first site in Cleveland was preparing to open, Hall relocated from Toledo to assist with its clinical services. “Upon getting there, I quickly realized the scope of what we were doing in that niche. We were sitting around a table in meetings with all of these resources, but there were certain aspects that kept coming up. Kids were coming to us because their parents needed help. There were so many needs in the community.”

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