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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Equipping people of faith and goodwill to organize communities for systemic change through collective action.
Youth Leadership Training
Mon, May 27
|Centenary United Methodist Church
The focus of the MICAH Youth Leadership Training is for current and rising high school students to reflect upon what it means to be a leader in the public arena.
Time & Location
May 27, 2024, 9:00 AM – May 31, 2024, 3:00 PM
Centenary United Methodist Church, 584 E McLemore Ave, Memphis, TN 38106, USA
About the event
Effective leadership is imperative if transformation is to take place in your organization, community, or congregation. The emphasis throughout this training will be on engagement with the participants along with some learning by doing, including hands-on skill practice sessions and feedback from peers and trainers.
This immersive program will give students the opportunity to look at social issues in their own communities through the lens of organizing and build the skills to make an impact on those issues–both in the future as adults and today as young people. Throughout the week, you will delve deeper into the topics of power, self-interest, one-on-ones, public vs private, power analysis, issues and actions, effective meetings, teams and propositions. The week will also include a field trip to Civic Center Plaza, to tour Memphis City Hall and the Vasco A. Smith Jr. County Administration Building.
Type of Program: Non-Residential Public Target: Rising 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th graders,…
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Upcoming Events
- Mon, May 04Location is TBDJoin MICAH on May 4th, 2026 for our May 2026 Issues Night! All tasks forces except BTBM will be having a breakout session during the upcoming meeting.
- Multiple DatesTue, May 05Location will be sent by email.Shelby County Primary Elections on May 5th, so we're reaching out to the community now!
- Tue, May 12Register to receive locationAdvocates for Immigrant Rights (AIR) and Vecindarios 901 are organizing immigration court observation in order to document obstacles to due process experienced by immigrants.
- Sun, May 17National Civil Rights Museum
- Multiple DatesThu, May 21Idlewild Presbyterian ChurchBetter Transit for a Better Memphis, led by daily riders and other community champions, organizes and advocates for fully funded, accessible, and equitable public transit.
- Sat, May 30Centenary United Methodist ChurchJoin MICAH, Tennessee Interfaith Power & Light, & Young, Gifted, & Green from 9:00am-2:30pm on May 30th for a workshop exploring the power of spiritual nonviolence in the traditions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi.