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In 2015, Robinson founded The Healthcare Institute, a nursing college, and received $1.6 million in grants from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. She received a total of $2.2 million in federal grants from 2015 to 2019. [5] [6] The Healthcare Institute started with two students and later expanded to over six hundred ...
The Division of Youth Services (DYS) operates juvenile correctional facilities. [2] One, Oakley Training School, is open, while Columbia Training School has been closed. The two training schools are 125 miles (201 km) apart from one another. [3] As of 2003 the majority of children committed to the training schools were non-violent offenders. [4]
On January 11, 2016, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant appointed John Davis as the director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services. [2] At the time, the agency was providing a record low number of recipients with direct cash assistance welfare in favor of other programs, such as job training classes.
(The Center Square) – Memphis Mayor Paul Young cited costs on Thursday saying he would not enter into a consent decree with the Department of Justice over allegations of use of excessive force ...
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MPD Assistant Chief Shawn Jones, who joined the department in September 2021, is not a Memphis or Shelby County resident, according to voting records. Jones, in fact, is not a Tennessee resident.
The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services was created in 2016 by Mississippi Legislature. This separated it from the Mississippi Department of Human Services. Mississippi Senate Bill 2179 was signed by Governor Phil Bryant in May of 2016. MDCPS is an independent agency with its commissioner joining the Governor's cabinet.
In 1987, Porter-Leath, in collaboration with the Memphis/Shelby County Health Department, received a five-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to begin on-site services at Northside High School. The Health Department opened a school-based health clinic and Porter-Leath opened an on-site infant care center.