Memphis Allies Stories

Youth Villages Launches $60 Million Gun Violence Reduction Initiative

by Memphis Allies | Oct 21, 2022 | Memphis Allies

For more than a year, we’ve been working with community leaders and national experts to build Memphis Allies to address one of our community’s greatest challenges: deadly gun violence. We appreciate your support of the initiative and our work. Read this morning’s article about Memphis Allies in The Daily Memphian.

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‘Leading in Life Enterprise’ a key Memphis Allies partner

Unresolved trauma carries consequences. It is why the phrase “hurt people hurt people” resonates. Emotional wounds are easily passed from one person to another, like a toxic baton.

Kinah Burks, founder of Leading in Life Enterprise (LLE), a Memphis Allies partner, understands this truth.

Want to change culture? Change social media

Social media. Young people. Positive content. Sadly, those three things don’t always go together.

Terrell Monger, pastor of One Accord International and who sometimes leads devotions with Memphis Allies staff, wanted to do something about that.

Case managers the ‘glue’ in Memphis Allies programming

Memphis Allies participants enter programming with real problems in need of practical solutions. Many times, a case manager is the person who leads the way in solving those problems.