A Memphis group trying to allay childhood trauma lost funding. But here's how a key service will stay [commercialappeal.com]

By Laura Testino, Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 10, 2021

At the end of 2020, Memphis' ACE Awareness Foundation, a five-year-old organization that has provided free counseling and community resources to parents and families across the city, announced that it would fold at the end of March.

The foundation won't be returning, but one trademark free mental health resource will. Called Universal Parenting Places, or UPPs, the five Mid-South locations provide mental health resources and family activities through a model pioneered and created by the foundation. Although the foundation is leaving, Memphis-based Kindred Place, a family counseling organization, will keep the UPPs up and running.

"That wide range of work that supports families and healthy family relationships is sort of the perfect match between Kindred Place and the UPPs," explained Jennifer Balink, the executive director at Kindred Place, "to cover the full spectrum of what any parent in the community could need.”

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