Retiring Hope House head leaving legacy of ‘life-changing’ assistance
Elizabeth Dupont, executive director of Hope House since 1999, is retiring June 1. She has helped build an enterprise that has a nationally accredited day care and preschool, plus housing and social services. (Houston Cofield/Special to The Daily Memphian)
She added social services for adults, saying that there is no way to reduce generational poverty without engaging the adults and the children in the family.
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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