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