Memphis group receives $3.8M grant to help combat youth homelessness
Pam Scarbrough is the executive assistant and office manager for the Community Alliance for the Homeless, which recently scored a two-year, $3.8 million grant to help combat youth homelessness. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
The grant is an initiative from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development aimed at helping communities come up with solutions for combatting youth homelessness.
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Community Alliance for the Homeless homeless services homelessnessAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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