Youth and Education
Committee Accomplishments
The Shelby County Nonprofit Committee brought together nonprofits across varied sectors to share concerns and draw attention to issues that are barriers to residents’ success. We collectively identified major issues per sector and identified ways to address a part of a systemic problem. This is a different approach. Our focus has been on narrowing a focus, coming up with a project that chips away at a big problem, that’s achievable in a year. Previous projects in this sector include:
- Problem: Early Literacy strategies across the county were not always aligned and resources provided to students often didn’t look like the students reading them nor reflect their daily lives.
- Strategy: The Children, Youth, and Education Committee worked with the Early Literacy Consortium and partners to align early literacy resources that culminates in a Shelby County inspired phonics book that looks like and reflects the diversity of our residents. Shelby A to Z will be distributed to thousands of early readers.
- Problem: Youth Mental Health is an on-going problem exacerbated by the pandemic. Students often get a referral to see a mental health provider but don’t have the time, means, or transportation to see that provider.
- Strategy: The Children, Youth, and Education Committee worked to create a new model for tele-health services through a pilot program so that kids who need mental health support don’t have to travel to get it. 10 tele-health suites have been created in schools and family resource centers where the needs are greatest, connecting students virtually, on site, with mental health providers through University of Memphis’ SMART CENTER.
Participating Nonprofits
- A+ Better Day Learning Academy
- Academy for Youth Empowerment
- Agape Child & Family Services, Inc
- Agricenter International Inc.
- AngelStreet
- ARISE2Read
- Beyond Educating Foundation
- Bikers & Social Clubs 4 Change
- Black Children's Book & Authors
- (The) Black Pearl Nail Academy
- Blues City Cultural Center
- Bonds Kids
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis
- BRIDGES
- Bridges for the Deaf and Heard of Hearing
- Children and Family Enrichment at Idlewild
- Clean Memphis
- Communities In Schools of Memphis
- Couture Cares
- DI'MANS, Inc.
- Diverse Learners Cooperative
- Developing Noblemen Academy (DNA)
- ECHO Foundation
- EDA Flyers Youth Track Club
- Feed The Needy
- Fire Museum of Memphis
- First 8 Memphis
- Frayser Community Schools
- Freedom Preparatory Academy
- Freeman Outreach Center
- Germantown Education Foundation
- Girls Inc. of Memphis
- High Calling Services, Inc.
- Hope House
- Hope4Healing Ministries
- Hutchison School
- Image Builders Memphis
- Inspiration 4 the generation
- Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South
- Junior League of Memphis
- Kem's House
- LeBonheur Children's Hospital
- Legend Reading Center
- Liberty Memphis Inc
- Literacy Mid-South
- Madonna Learning Center
- Memphis Athletic Ministries
- Memphis Bear's Inc PAL
- Memphis Dream Center
- Memphis Education Fund
- Memphis Jewish Community Center
- Memphis Leadership Foundation
- Memphis Youth Arts Initiative
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Nothing But Love Foundation
- One by One Ministries
- Porter-Leath
- Power Solutions LLC
- Project Transformation Tennessee
- Reading with Mrs. Richardson
- Red Robin's Academy of Learning, Inc.
- Refugee Empowerment Program
- Respondents Inc.
- Rhodes College
- Rising Together Foundation
- SchoolSeed Foundation
- Seeding Success
- Sheriff's and Police Activities League of Memphis and Shelby County Tennessee
- South Side Wildcats Organization
- Stand for Children Tennessee
- STS Enterprise Corporation
- SVP Kids Inc.
- The Peer Power Foundation, Inc.
- The Urban Child Institute
- TN Voices
- UCAN Of Memphis
- University Aviation Association
- University of Memphis
- University of Memphis-Center for Research in Educational Policy
- Urban Community Ministries
- Whole Child Strategies, Inc.
- YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South
- Young Ladies of Change, Inc.