Memphis Youth Development Group

10/09/2026

Due to incoming severe weather conditions from Hurricane Isaias, we are cancelling tomorrow’s mentoring session at Gaston Community Center. Families and mentors will be notified about the next session.

Until then, stay safe everyone!

10/06/2026

Cossitt Library downtown is hosting this free STEAM workshop for Middle & High Students during their Fall Break! Perfect opportunity to have youth gain new skills towards a potential career

See the Cossitt Website for more information

09/26/2026

After 2 weeks at 4 different sites across the city, our mentoring data shows that 65% of our mentees had mood improvements after completing our mentoring sessions; even better, 100% of our mentees moods either stayed the same or improved. None of them felt worse leaving our mentoring sessions over the last 2 weeks!

Within the first 2 weeks of mentoring, Mentees also collectively rated our program activities a 4.6/5! They are engaged and enjoying how they’re being developed.

This is a major win for our first 2 weeks! The work continues 🔥

09/25/2026

Get your teams ready! Our cookout & day of play is scheduled for Sun. October 18th.

RSVP on our website now: www.memphisydg.org >> Sessions & Events

09/24/2026

Last season we got the opportunity to make one of our mentees the Pre-game Ball Kid for the Memphis Grizzlies. Today, we celebrate him. Happy birthday, Peyton!!

09/11/2026

Families: Emails have been sent with all information for our mentoring season, including site schedules for the year.

Reach out with any questions; looking forward to starting next week!

09/10/2026

TODAY: Parents should have received an email, text message with the meeting link. The link is also here: Memphis Youth Development Group is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Virtual Parent Info. Meeting
Time: Sep 10, 2026 05:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/84316555149?pwd=DVUhC3fwx17yoaLJhtE1Q352IS1A0T.1

Meeting ID: 843 1655 5149
Passcode: q4GWAW

Join instructions
https://us05web.zoom.us/meetings/84316555149/invitations?signature=EvlyfZbXz5uzwzlEcqhelHhE3CLU47LQLM3um7v0WvE

TOMORROW! Link is on the site: https://www.memphisydg.org/event-details/virtual-parent-info-meeting

09/10/2026

50 swag bags from the Memphis Grizzlies going to our mentees!! Thank you to the Grizzlies for always supporting our youth programming

Mentoring starts next week!

09/09/2026

TOMORROW! Link is on the site: https://www.memphisydg.org/event-details/virtual-parent-info-meeting

09/04/2026

Signing day with Bellevue Middle! We’re excited to begin this partnership. Thank you to MSCS Partnerships for helping to make this happen.

Parents: Afterschool mentoring at Bellevue begins Monday, Sept. 14. Virtual Parent meeting is Thursday, Sept. 10th from 5-6.

More info can be found on our site at www.MemphisYDG.org