Reclaiming Our Identity is our well-defined, citywide plan to re-establish exactly who we are, with the clear vision to know exactly where we’re going. Never again can we allow anyone to own our Youngstown success narrative. It’s time we take back and tell our own story.

Reclaiming Our Identity encompasses a deep sense of community pride and a collective sense of self that exists throughout the entire City Of Youngstown and beyond. Once embedded into our community policy, process and planned agenda it will tap into the ambitions and potential of the City Of Youngstown. It’s out of a well-defined Youngstown Identity that we will reinvigorate Youngstown Industry.

Reclaiming Our Identity is a shared vision, and a shared goal, where individual plans, and personal agendas must give way to a shared identity that guides us into a new City Of Youngstown. When we clearly define who we are, it will help clearly determine where we’re going. Reclaiming Our Identity includes:

• using culture, character, and integrity, all working together to open up the doors to a modern & responsive City Hall for us all

• honoring, engaging, and empowering residents, to help solve the quality of life challenges of our neighborhoods 

• boldly and fiercely becoming champions of Youngstown’s accomplishments;
• operating within a newfound, citywide Educational & Academic hunger and rigor
• leaning all the way into our “grit” and letting our Athletic talent roar;
• solidifying our place as being renowned for our Arts & Entertainment culture and community
• deeply developing our Entrepreneurial  & Economic Development Acumen

Reclaiming Our Identity is how we take our rightful place across the City, within the Mahoning Valley, the State of Ohio and well into the region. It’s well past the time to “turn the page” on allowing others to tell us who we are. We’re writing a new story and forging our chosen future —one in which Youngstown residents have the opportunity to create a better life and future for themselves and their families.

Join Us In Reclaiming Our Identity.

Youngstown City Hall is a vital key in Reclaiming Our Identity. Opening up its doors will ensure we are a transparent City Hall that engages us all and:

• is a trusted source for good goverment
• is a guiding star and beacon of hope for where we’re going
• serves at the pleasure of the people of the City
• employs a committed staff, that joyously serves and promptly responds 
• no longer reserves itself to default, status quo solutions

We’ve got to take back and tell our story better than anyone else. By investing significant resources into getting out our message, we will “own the airwaves” around our narrative. Using online/digital/in-print content marketing, along with tv/radio/social media advertising the City of Youngstown will be widely known for:

In Reclaiming Our Identity, we, the City Of Youngstown can boldly broadcast it.

• Now that we’re telling our own story, we can share it with the world.