Secondary education in America is a right, not a privilege. On December 10, 2015, President Barrack Obama reauthorized the law. This act was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which came into existence in the mid-1960s under the leadership of President Lyndon Johnson. ESEA was designed to address educational equality for all students across the United States.
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 MoreOne of Meritan’s host agencies recognized and celebrated Ms. Arzella Warren (Meritan’s Senior Employment Participant) as an outstanding Woman of the Month. Learn more about Arzella Warren by reading our blog.
Read MoreMeritan, Inc., the Mid-South’s leading non-profit provider of healthcare and social services for people in need, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Founded in 1961 as a small agency to serve the unmet needs of senior citizens in Memphis, Meritan has grown into a multi-service organization offering an array of programs for homebound seniors, children living in foster care, victims of elder abuse, and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as senior employment opportunities.
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 MoreMarch was Women’s History Month, and Top Workplaces has recognized Meritan as a woman-led organization that “believes in the power of putting people first” (Woman-Led Top Workplaces 2021).
Read MoreGreat news! Arkansas Family Focused Treatment Association (FFTA) will be hosting its first ever virtual AR Chapter FFTA Institute in 2021. The planning process is underway, but the exact date is still to be determined. Meritan AR, along with approximately a dozen other Treatment Foster Care agencies comprise the Arkansas chapter.
Read MoreWith National Intern Day being the last Thursday of next month, we wanted you to meet one of our amazing interns named Nirali Patel. Nirali Patel is a native Memphian and first-year Master of Health Administration graduate student at the University of Memphis, where she a member of the Master of Health Administration Student Association (MHASA).
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