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Mayor, City of Memphis, A C Wharton, Jr.

• 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

Employment

• 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.

Number of Transfers to Juvenile Court from SHAPE Schools by School Year

• Number of Transfers to Juvenile Court from SHAPE Schools by School Year

• July 2011- September 2011

• 377 children served

• 100% of program minority youth diverted

• from detention

Frayser Youth Council

• 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