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MEMPHIS YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

MEMPHIS YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION. Intervention Strategies. Memphis Team. Mayor, City of Memphis, A C Wharton, Jr. Commissioner, Department of Safety and Homeland Security, William Gibbons United States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton, III

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MEMPHIS YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

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  1. MEMPHIS YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION InterventionStrategies

  2. Memphis Team • Mayor, City of Memphis, A C Wharton, Jr. • Commissioner, Department of Safety and Homeland Security, William Gibbons • United States Attorney, Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton, III • Shelby County District Attorney General, Amy Weirich • Director, Memphis Police Department, Toney Armstrong • Chief of Staff, City of Memphis, Robert White • Chief, School Safety Security & Emergency Management (MCS), Gerald Darling • Executive Director, Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, Michelle Fowlkes • Major, Memphis Police Department, Charles Newell • Pastor, First Baptist- Broad, Keith Norman • Director, Youth Services, City of Memphis, James Nelson YOUTH • Kenneth Douglass, Frayser Youth Council • Jhukuruin Corley, Juvenile Intervention & Faith-Based Follow-Up Participant

  3. OUR VISION 25%

  4. RISK FACTORS Employment Unemployment rate is exacerbated by significant percentage of young, unskilled workers. Poverty Memphis Metropolitan Area is the most impoverished large metro in the nation Gun Violence 50% of crimes involve youth. Most are gun-related.

  5. STRATEGIES YELLOWcircles represent multi-agency collaborations

  6. Operation Safe Community: A Memphis Fast Forward Initiative

  7. S.H.A.P.E. Number of Transfers to Juvenile Court from SHAPE Schools by School Year Shelby County Bookings into Juvenile Detention, 2006-2010

  8. HOPE Academy Enrollment August 2011-February 2012 Provided by HOPE Academy

  9. HOPE Academy’s Monthly Return August 2011-February 2012

  10. District Attorney’s Mentoring and Truancy Program • July 2011- September 2011 • 377 children served • 100% of program minority youth diverted from detention

  11. Place-based Strategies • Frayser Youth Council • Defending Childhood Initiative (DCI) • Gang Reduction Assistance and Saving Society’s Youth (G.R.A.S.S.Y.) • Gang, Inc. • MPD’s Community Outreach Program (COP) Challenges • School Consolidation • State Takeover of Selected Schools within Target Area of Frayser • Reallocation of Resources

  12. NEXT STEPS

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