As we celebrate National Older Workers Month, we wanted to share a story about one of our Senior Job Training and Employment participants, named Bettina Horton. Bettina Horton, a 66-year-old, does not consider herself as a “Senior “citizen but a “Seasoned” citizen. Read more about Bettina’s experience from her personal point of view by clicking here!
Read MoreLinzie Madkins became part of the Family Model Residential Program in 2017. After returning home from yet another hospitalization March 2021, Linzie took time to explain how the program (particularly his caregiver, Mr. Edward Evans) have allowed him to continue to live a meaningful and full life despite all challenges in addition to sharing how one accident changed his life forever. Read more about Linzie’s inspirational story by clicking here.
Read MoreMeet our Board Member, Scott Walkup. He works for the Memphis and Shelby County Division of Planning & Development as the Administrator for the Shelby County Department of Housing. The Department provides critical affordable housing resources including down payment assistance loans, lead-based paint hazard reduction services and housing rehabilitation, financing for affordable housing development and support for large scale community initiatives like Resilient Shelby. Learn more about Scott and his involvement with Meritan by reading his interview.
Read MoreMeet our Board Chair, Kim Strickland. Kim is the Vice President and Senior Art Director of Kelley & Associates Advertising in Memphis, TN. Currently, she serves as Meritan’s Board Chair of our Board of Directors. Learn more about Kim and her involvement with Meritan by reading her interview.
Read MoreThis week, April 18-24, is National Volunteer Week in Canada and the United States, and we wanted to take a moment to thank all of our amazing volunteers for writing letters to our homebound seniors receiving in-home personal care. Your volunteerism means the world not only to the seniors that we serve but also to Meritan. We could not do what we do without all of our amazing volunteers. We wanted to highlight our Volunteer of the Month, Courtney Spencer.
Read MoreCongratulations to Jeanette Barbee-Cowans for being recognized as an Above & Beyond recipient! Meritan’s Above & Beyond award is presented to staff who have gone above and beyond their job duties at Meritan. Jeanette was nominated for her tireless efforts in assisting with this year's Silver Bells program, organizing the gifts, coordinating shipping, and helping ensure that the process went smoothly. Jeanette also does a stellar job of keeping staff in Memphis safe and COVID-19 protocol compliant.
Read MoreMarch is National Social Workers Month. This year, the theme for National Social Workers Month is “Social Workers are Essential.” This theme illustrates the importance of our social workers and the positive impact that they have on our clients in the community. We are so thankful for you. With March being National Social Workers Month, we wanted to recognize HCBS Case managers Anttrelena McClain and Takara Johnson. We asked them, "What it means to be a Social worker at Meritan?" See their responses by reading the blog.
Read MoreMeritan is excited to announce we were awarded a grant of $5,000.00 from the Union Pacific Community Ties Giving Program for our Older Workers Program. The Older Workers program is an employment skills, placement, retention skills, and community service opportunity for low-income older adults. Job seekers in the Older Worker program have experienced barriers to entering or reentering the workforce. The program seeks to help them overcome those barriers and ready themselves to find unsubsidized full-time employment through training and a paid part-time position at a local non-profit or government agency. All participants are at least 55 and over and live in a household with income no more than 125 percent of the federal poverty level.
Read MoreThank you WREG News Channels for having our President/ CEO, Melanie Keller, on your Live at 9 on December 30th. In this video interview, Melanie Keller shares helpful tips on how you can help the elderly and your loved ones during this time. She also discusses ways to prevent financial exploitation and abuse.
Read MoreShelby County, TN began their phase 1 rollout of COVID vaccinations in the first week of January 2021. The COVID vaccinations were for direct health care workers, first responders, and some other groups.
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