Children’s Home CEO emphasizes collaboration with other nonprofits

Ellen Johnson had been working at the Children’s Home of Cincinnati for about eight years when she realized she wanted to run the place.

It was 1998, and Wes Young, then executive director, had tapped Johnson to help create a new vision for the agency after the decision was made to close its residential treatment center. He asked her to work on program development, which involved helping to create a new array of programs and services to help the troubled and mentally ill children that the agency served.