College and Career Readiness Dept. of Communities In Schools of Memphis

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍽

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”
-James Allen

For 71 years, the Memphis Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity has been providing a forum by which to introduce young ladies from the Memphis community into formal society.

The Debutante experience is designed to prepare young ladies to be successful, confident, classy and sophisticated. It's the perfect compliment to a successful transition into finer womanhood. The culmination of the Debutante experience is the formal presentation. Be a part of something that will create a lasting memory and allow you to compete for ONE of THREE scholarships.

For more information visit: http://www.kappamemphis.com/events/debutante

Debutante - Memphis Alumni Chapter This is the web site of the Memphis Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Youth Open Mic Night! Ages 13-20

Location: 2471 Park Ave
6 PM - 8 PM

Free VIRTUAL ACT Workshop on October 30th 2021.

Registration required at: tinyurl.com/2021doveact

Motivational Monday:

"This mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

Motivational Monday:

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

The annual Southern Heritage Classic college and career fair will take place virtually tomorrow via the City of Memphis Office of Youth.

Time: 8:30am-1:30pm.

Motivational Monday:

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
- Marva Collins

Motivational Monday:

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

Free confidential counseling. Check out the flyer for more information! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Congratulations to class of 2021 CCR Program Alumni Jada Robertson. Jada was the recent recipient of the Peer Power- Caroll Brunthaver Scholarship, awarded to high school students planning to attend the University of Memphis who demonstrated academic merit, volunteer impact, and strong personal character. We are proud of her continued achievement!

Motivational Monday:

"Never stop doing great just because someone doesn't give you credit'"

Motivational Monday:

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

Motivational Monday:

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying"

Scholarship Alert! 📣

Two $500 dollar scholarships will be rewarded!

Who can apply: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students.

Check out the flyer for more information!

Scholarship Alert!!
Deadline May 31, 2021
Check out the flyer below!

Motivational Monday:

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you."

-Oprah Winfrey

Motivational Monday:

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is courage to continue that counts."

Motivational Monday:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Motivational Monday:

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. IT DOES."
- William James

STUDENTS!!! THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY!!

Motivational Monday:

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."
- Vladimir Lenin

Communities in Schools of Memphis is looking for two potential VISTA members to help serve our students. Follow the links below to apply!

Family Care Support VISTA - https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=101658

Grants & Development VISTA - https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?fromSearch=true&id=101660

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Motivational Monday:

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
- Ronald Reagan

Day 28: Black History Fact

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.

Day 27: Black History Fact

Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught.

Day 26: Black History Fact

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (1913 - 1980) was an American track and field athlete and four-time gold medalist in the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history.

Day 25: Black History Fact

Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

Day 24: Black History Fact

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Day 23: Black History Fact

Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.

Interested in learning about or joining the Communities in Schools College and Career Readiness Program?

The College & Career Readiness Program provides select seniors with the necessary coaching, counseling, and supportive services to ensure students graduate and are better equipped to chart a course for post-secondary education, vocational training, military, and/or career opportunities.

Check out the flyer below for more information regarding the CCR Program!

Day 22: Black History Fact

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Motivational Monday:

"Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person."

Day 21: Black History Fact

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York's 12th congressional district for seven terms from 1969 to 1983

Spring 2021 Youth Work Experience: Click the link below for more information

https://midsouthyouth.com/

Workforce Mid-South Youth

Day 20: Black History Fact

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Day 19: Black History Fact

Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice