MEMPHIS YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Intervention Strategies

Memphis TeamoMayor, City of Memphis, A C Wharton, Jr.oCommissioner, Department of Safety and Homeland Security, William GibbonsoUnited States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton, IIIoShelby County District Attorney General, Amy WeirichoDirector, Memphis Police Department, Toney ArmstrongoChief of Staff, City of Memphis, Robert WhiteoChief, School Safety Security & Emergency Management (MCS), Gerald DarlingoExecutive Director, Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, Michelle FowlkesoMajor, Memphis Police Department, Charles NewelloPastor, First Baptist- Broad, Keith NormanoDirector, Youth Services, City of Memphis, James Nelson

YOUTHoKenneth Douglass, Frayser Youth CounciloJhukuruin Corley, Juvenile Intervention & Faith-Based Follow-Up Participant

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OUR VISION

RISK FACTORS

o Employment• Unemployment rate is exacerbated by significant

percentage of young, unskilled workers. o Poverty • Memphis Metropolitan Area is the most

impoverished large metro in the nationo Gun Violence• 50% of crimes involve youth. Most are gun-

related.

EarlySuccess

Coalition WorkforceInvestment

Network

MemphisAmbassadors

Program

HopeAcademy

People FirstCoalition

JIFF

Urban Youth Initiative

PRE-NATALto

24 YEARS

STRATEGIES YELLOW circles represent multi-agency collaborations

Operation Safe Community: A Memphis Fast Forward Initiative

S.H.A.P.E.

Number of Transfers to Juvenile Court from SHAPE Schools by

School YearShelby County Bookings into Juvenile Detention, 2006-2010

HOPE Academy Enrollment August 2011-February 2012

Provided by HOPE Academy

HOPE Academy’s Monthly Return August 2011-February 2012

District Attorney’s Mentoring and Truancy Program

o July 2011- September 2011 o 377 children servedo 100% of program minority youth diverted

from detention

Place-based Strategieso Frayser Youth Councilo Defending Childhood Initiative (DCI)o Gang Reduction Assistance and Saving Society’s Youth (G.R.A.S.S.Y.)o Gang, Inc.o MPD’s Community Outreach Program (COP)

Challengeso School Consolidationo State Takeover of Selected Schools within

Target Area of Fraysero Reallocation of Resources

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