Summer Avenue-area women’s sanctuary will close due to funding woes
The Lisieux Community sanctuary, which provided support for traumatized women, will close due to lack of funds. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Lisieux Community’s drop-in center, which opened in 2021, has been a temporary refuge from the streets that offered its guests hot showers, warm meals, clean clothes and a safe place to rest a while.
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Lisieux Community Jordan Boss Summer Avenue Mental healthAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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