Self-Sufficiency Program

The Shelby County Community Services Agency’s Self-Sufficiency Program offers support that will promote, empower and nurture families or individuals. These services include but are not limited to case management, information/referral, advocacy, family and/or individual counseling and voucher assistance. The goals of the program are:

  • Coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income individuals
  • Encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in an effort to relieve or remedy poverty conditions in the community
  • Provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on the causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem
  • Provide activities designed to assist low-income participants
  • Provide on an emergency basis such supplies and services, nutritious food, and related services as may be necessary to counteract conditions and malnutrition among the poor

Address:  2670 Union Ext., Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38112

Ph: (901) 222-4200