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Directions for Youth & Families' two annual events, Open Your HeART for Kids and the State of the Child Luncheon, raise funds to support programming. Program youth participants, through their voice and presentations, inform about challenges faced by young people and families in our community, and entertain with music and dance performances.

State of the Child Luncheon

Thank you to Title Sponsor Huntington Bank and all other sponsors and contributors for providing our community the data and stories that tell us the issues children and their families face daily.

Many thanks to other major sponsors:
American Electric Power
Limited Brands
Nationwide
CB Richard Ellis
Grange Insurance Companies
Honda of America Mfg, Inc.
Jones Day
Ohio Children's Foundation

Battelle
Deloitte & Touche
Fifth Third Bank
The Georgetown Company

Nationwide Children's Hospital
Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur
Robert Weiler Company
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
Wolfe Enterprises

Big Lots
Columbia Gas
Dedicated Technologies
EMH&T
Messer Construction
Odyssey Consulting
OhioHealth
Park National Bank
Plante & Moran, PLLC
US Bank

Applied Performance
Diversified Systems, Inc
Glennon Karr, LLC
Hamilton Parker
High Street Neighborhoods
Hodge Cramer & Associates
McDonald's Corporation
OSU Office of Minority Affairs
Palmer-Donavin Manufacturing Company
Performance Management
RSM McGladrey
Sullivan Staffing Strategies

View photos of the May 12 Luncheon.

To sponsor, attend, or volunteer with one of these events, please contact the Development Office at the main office.

To see what else is going on at Directions, visit our Calendar.

Help us share the challenges facing today's youth while raising money for programs helping them achieve promising futures.