Joe French

Joe French Receives Community Service Award

Joe French, CEO of Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health and EHHS graduate, received the Community Service Award for the 21st Masonic District at the Historic Canton Masonic Temple. 

A two-term Meyers Lake Village councilman, French is a community activist and graduate of Leadership Stark County. He serves on the boards of Stark County District Library, Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Northeast Ohio Regional Committee, Adventure Place Advisory Board, Leadership Stark County, Family Council of Stark County and JRC.

French has led Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health through Behavioral Health Redesign, the first mental health agency to pilot the Six Sigma process. He initiated the Stark County Schools Mental Health Week and Collegiate Self-Care Week to eliminate the stigma around mental health.

French has received kudos from Leadership Stark County’s 30 Faces of Leadership, the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce’s YStark Twenty Under Forty, and the DeHoff Emerging Philanthropist from the United Way of Greater Stark County. 

He is a Louisville High School graduate, and earned his bachelor’s degree from Kent State University in elementary education and his master’s degree in early childhood development from Ashland University.