Presley Place
In June of 1999, the EPCF (Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation), announced its commitment to fund the building and operational costs of Presley Place, a $1 million-plus development managed by MIFA (Metropolitan Inter-faith Association) as part of Estival Communities, MIFA's housing program for homeless families.
Presley Place is a joint venture between the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation and the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) that houses dozens of families annually. The complex consists of two four-bedroom apartments and 10 two-bedroom apartments and is part of MIFA's Estival Communities with 77-units providing homeless families with transitional housing in south-central Memphis.
It officially opened to its first residents on July 10, 2001. Lisa Marie Presley, Chairman of EPE (Elvis Presley Enterprises) and EPCF, cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the new facility. The grand-opening ceremony provided the public an opportunity to view the facility and learn more about this program to assist families in crisis.
New resident families -- formerly homeless -- began moving into the fully furnished units the next day. Since it opened in July 2001, Presley Place has been home to more than 13 adults and 32 children who were forced from their homes by fire, eviction or domestic violence. Presley Place gives these families a safe environment to live in while they get the job skills or the education and training they need. Without Presley Place, these families would have no place to go.
Over the holidays with the help of her mother Pricilla and her daughter Riley Keough, Lisa Marie celebrated the holidays at Presley Place. Three years ago Lisa Marie cut the ribbon on the transitional housing facility which has an 87 percent success rate in breaking the cycle of homelessness. She and Priscilla and Riley spent the afternoon with the families of Presley Place passing out presents with Santa.
MIFA's Estival Communities program provides qualifying homeless families up to one year of rent-free housing in the apartments on its various campuses like Presley Place and provides a comprehensive program of child day care, career and financial counseling, family management guidance and other tools to help them break the cycle of poverty and regain self-esteem and independence. For more information visit the MIFA website
CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is dedicated to exposing and eradicating criminal acts and human rights abuses within psychiatry. The sister organization, Fight For Kids educates parents worldwide on the facts about today's widespread practice of labeling children mentally ill and drugging them with heavy, mind-altering, psychiatric drugs.
On September 26, 2002, Lisa Marie Presley, International Spokesperson for Children's Rights, testified before a Congressional Hearing.
Lisa Marie has said, "The Psychiatric labeling & drugging of children has become too widespread. Normal childhood behavior is being diagnosed as a disorder and psychiatrists are automatically putting these kids on various psychotropic medications such as Ritalin. Kids are lining up in school to receive their pills. There are other solutions to these so-called disorders."
"It is insane and has got to stop!"
LEAP
Lisa Marie is very involved with children and literacy. In October of 1997, Lisa Marie, along with friend and fellow Memphian Isaac Hayes, opened the Literacy, Education and Ability Program (LEAP). LEAP is a free program for children and people of all ages in Memphis, Tennessee. LEAP provides effective educational services and materials that help people learn how to learn and study effectively and thereby have the ability to achieve their goals and realize their full potential. LEAP provides effective learning tools, known as Hubbard Study Technology. Study Technology is based on break-through research by author/educator L. Ron Hubbard, which enables the student to isolate and repair his areas of learning difficulty such that he can effectively learn and apply what he learns. Application of these study techniques gives the student the ability to improve his own education and re-instills in him/her a love for learning. In addition, LEAP (Literacy, Education and Ability Program) increases the literacy rate of its students by resolving earlier literacy problems and putting in the basics to an easy understanding of the English language, including phonics and grammar.
LEAP began as grass roots program helpings hundreds of students in Memphis achieve a better education. In 2002, LEAP became authorized by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission as a post-secondary school to train teachers and tutors in Study Technology. LEAP became a full Applied Scholastics® non-profit school, offering an after-school tutoring program for youth. All courses use a step-by-step, self paced approach to learning that combines theory with practical exercises.
The objectives of The Literacy, Education and Ability Program (LEAP) are to increase the learning potential of all students in the community as well as the effectiveness of our school's teachers in order to ensure the success of our future generations.
In June of 1999, the EPCF (Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation), announced its commitment to fund the building and operational costs of Presley Place, a $1 million-plus development managed by MIFA (Metropolitan Inter-faith Association) as part of Estival Communities, MIFA's housing program for homeless families.
Presley Place is a joint venture between the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation and the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA) that houses dozens of families annually. The complex consists of two four-bedroom apartments and 10 two-bedroom apartments and is part of MIFA's Estival Communities with 77-units providing homeless families with transitional housing in south-central Memphis.
It officially opened to its first residents on July 10, 2001. Lisa Marie Presley, Chairman of EPE (Elvis Presley Enterprises) and EPCF, cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the new facility. The grand-opening ceremony provided the public an opportunity to view the facility and learn more about this program to assist families in crisis.
New resident families -- formerly homeless -- began moving into the fully furnished units the next day. Since it opened in July 2001, Presley Place has been home to more than 13 adults and 32 children who were forced from their homes by fire, eviction or domestic violence. Presley Place gives these families a safe environment to live in while they get the job skills or the education and training they need. Without Presley Place, these families would have no place to go.
Over the holidays with the help of her mother Pricilla and her daughter Riley Keough, Lisa Marie celebrated the holidays at Presley Place. Three years ago Lisa Marie cut the ribbon on the transitional housing facility which has an 87 percent success rate in breaking the cycle of homelessness. She and Priscilla and Riley spent the afternoon with the families of Presley Place passing out presents with Santa.
MIFA's Estival Communities program provides qualifying homeless families up to one year of rent-free housing in the apartments on its various campuses like Presley Place and provides a comprehensive program of child day care, career and financial counseling, family management guidance and other tools to help them break the cycle of poverty and regain self-esteem and independence. For more information visit the MIFA website
CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is dedicated to exposing and eradicating criminal acts and human rights abuses within psychiatry. The sister organization, Fight For Kids educates parents worldwide on the facts about today's widespread practice of labeling children mentally ill and drugging them with heavy, mind-altering, psychiatric drugs.
On September 26, 2002, Lisa Marie Presley, International Spokesperson for Children's Rights, testified before a Congressional Hearing.
Lisa Marie has said, "The Psychiatric labeling & drugging of children has become too widespread. Normal childhood behavior is being diagnosed as a disorder and psychiatrists are automatically putting these kids on various psychotropic medications such as Ritalin. Kids are lining up in school to receive their pills. There are other solutions to these so-called disorders."
"It is insane and has got to stop!"
LEAP
Lisa Marie is very involved with children and literacy. In October of 1997, Lisa Marie, along with friend and fellow Memphian Isaac Hayes, opened the Literacy, Education and Ability Program (LEAP). LEAP is a free program for children and people of all ages in Memphis, Tennessee. LEAP provides effective educational services and materials that help people learn how to learn and study effectively and thereby have the ability to achieve their goals and realize their full potential. LEAP provides effective learning tools, known as Hubbard Study Technology. Study Technology is based on break-through research by author/educator L. Ron Hubbard, which enables the student to isolate and repair his areas of learning difficulty such that he can effectively learn and apply what he learns. Application of these study techniques gives the student the ability to improve his own education and re-instills in him/her a love for learning. In addition, LEAP (Literacy, Education and Ability Program) increases the literacy rate of its students by resolving earlier literacy problems and putting in the basics to an easy understanding of the English language, including phonics and grammar.
LEAP began as grass roots program helpings hundreds of students in Memphis achieve a better education. In 2002, LEAP became authorized by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission as a post-secondary school to train teachers and tutors in Study Technology. LEAP became a full Applied Scholastics® non-profit school, offering an after-school tutoring program for youth. All courses use a step-by-step, self paced approach to learning that combines theory with practical exercises.
The objectives of The Literacy, Education and Ability Program (LEAP) are to increase the learning potential of all students in the community as well as the effectiveness of our school's teachers in order to ensure the success of our future generations.