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Community partners

The Village doesn’t heal alone. These are organizations across Memphis and Tennessee doing complementary work we’re proud to stand alongside — and where we send our own community, often.

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Community & economic development

Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) Midsouth

CTC Midsouth calls itself “The Authentic Community Partner,” and it’s the organization behind the building the Memphis chapter calls home — The Commons on Merton, a shared space at 258 N Merton St that houses BMHV Memphis alongside other nonprofits, churches, and community groups.

CTC works across six Memphis neighborhoods — Binghampton, the Medical District, Orange Mound, North Memphis, South Memphis, and Whitehaven — building resident-led power and equitable community development, so decisions about a neighborhood’s future are made with the people who live there, not around them.

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Suicide prevention & survivor support

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention — Tennessee Chapter

AFSP’s Tennessee Chapter works to eliminate suicide deaths across all 95 counties through prevention programs, public education, survivor support, and research funding — work that sits squarely alongside our own clinical and communal healing.

Their Healing Conversations groups connect survivors of suicide loss with trained volunteer facilitators, their Talk Saves Lives workshops (including sessions built for veterans and Latinx communities) bring suicide-prevention education into everyday spaces, and their annual Out of the Darkness Walks — held in Memphis and cities across the state — turn grief and awareness into community and fundraising.

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Families impacted by incarceration

Free Hearts

Free Hearts is led by formerly incarcerated women and organizes to support, empower, reunite, and organize families across Tennessee affected by incarceration and deportation — work rooted in the same belief that drives our Systems Healing pillar: that the people closest to a problem are the ones best positioned to solve it.

Alongside direct support for mothers, children, and returning citizens, Free Hearts runs participatory defense programs that bring families into the courtroom process, helps restore voting rights for formerly incarcerated Tennesseans, and organizes statewide around decriminalizing poverty.

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Partnering with the village

If your organization is doing complementary work in Memphis and the Mid-South, we’d love to talk about standing alongside each other.

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