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Agenda

8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Opening Session
(April Buckner, moderator)

  • TN Department of Correction Commissioner Tony Parker
  • TN Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips
  • TNAchieves Executive Director Krissy DeAlejandro

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. Preparing Ex-Offenders for Productive Lives
(Shelby Co. Mayor Mark Luttrell, moderator)

  • Patricia Melton, Shelby County Div. of Corrections
  • April Buckner, TN Department of Correction
  • Asst. Commissioner Ed Welch, Rehabilitative Services,
    TN Dept. of Correction
  • Asst. Commissioner Alisha Shoates-James, Community
    Supervision, TN Dept. of Correction

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Break

10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Sources of Skilled, Qualified Workers 
  • (Mayor Jim Strickland, moderator)

  • Ron Wade, HopeWorks
  • Henry Lewis, Workforce Investment Network
  • Josh Davis, Economic Opportunities
  • DeAndre Brown, Lifeline to Success
  • Superintendent Taurean James, Mark Luttrell Correctional Center
  • Adrena Jackson, CEO Works

11:00 – 11:50 a.m. Voices of Experience-Employers and Employees (Bill Gibbons, moderator)

  • Representatives from HopeWorks, Economic Opportunities, and TN Department of Correction

11:50 – Noon Closing Comments

  • TN Department of Correction Commissioner Tony Parker
  • Bill Gibbons, executive director of the U of M Public Safety Institute & president of the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission
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