Why should we care?
SCS’s ability to provide a quality, equitable education is being undercut by high teacher turnover and year-long teaching vacancies, as well as significant maintenance deficiencies within the schools, all of which leads to higher financial, educational, and health costs. A lack of access to wraparound services provided by qualified social workers, psychologists, and nurses inhibits the successful treatment of trauma or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Abuse, neglect, and trauma significantly increase the likelihood of suspensions, juvenile criminal behavior, and incarceration. With a median age four years below the national average, Memphis’s population can support economic development, but only if we provide children in our community access to opportunities and support.
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Partnering for power. Acting for justice.
Wed, Sep 20
|Scarritt Bennett Center
Ntosake 2023
Women Trained by Fire
Time & Location
Sep 20, 7:00 PM – Sep 23, 12:00 PM
Scarritt Bennett Center, 1027 18th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212, USA
About the Event
The Gamaliel staff and Ntosake trainers welcome you to our annual training event. We
are excited that you have traveled to become a more powerful, who has already braved the
flames of life: flames that could have already destroyed you, but you have survived! We
have been through hell. Our rights are being eroded: our safety threatened; our future
insecure. It would be a dire narrative for us to live into, except this is not an end to our story;
this is the opportunity to write a new narrative and to live into the power raging within us.
You are not a training to get power: you are here to transform the power within you to fight
for your rights, for justice for your community, and a sure future for the welfare of our world.
You can do this because you have already been through the unimaginable flames of racism,
sexism, classism, and you don’t even smell like smoke! Training will help you harness your
power so that when you see a flame, you smile because it is an opportunity to release the
power already within you to demand the change we need to live!