COMEC NEEDS VOLUNTEERS! EVENTS, MISC. DUTIES, DISTRIBUTION OF FLYERS AND OUR GOLF TOURNAMENT HELD IN SEPTEMBER ARE JUST A FEW ITEMS THIS WOULD INCLUDE.  PLEASE EMAIL CHRYSTALMBAKER@GMAIL.COM OR CALL US AT 901-222-0700 FOR MORE INFORMATION

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COMEC invites you to wear your best yellow on May 25^th in support of this National day. We encourage you to send in your best pics to be featured on our facebook page.

Together, let’s bring our children home.

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Pleasse email pics to chrystalmbaker@gmail.com!!!!

Greetings everyone,

Our next fundraising activity will be the hosting of COMEC’s 30th Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at The Links at Galloway, 3815 Walnut Grove Rd., Memphis TN. The tourney will begin at 8:00 am, shotgun start.

How about helping us help children? Here’s how you can do it:

-Purchase a corporate sponsorship for $2,500.00 and 2 teams of 4 players.
-Purchase a sponsorship for $1,000.00 and 1 team of players.
-Sponsor a 4-person team for $400.00 (100.00 per person -early registration – day-of registration 125.00)
-Purchase a hole sponsorship for $250.00
-Donating $500.00 for listing on our “Valued Supporters Banner.”
-Donating gift certificates or other items for door prizes and goodie bags.

Click here for more information.

We made it with another blessed and fortunate year here at COMEC. Here is an update for your review of our efforts in 2024:

First off, between COVID and the closing of Juvenile Court for 4 months with no access to our office, we are pleased to report that we have made it through the storm and have been able to continue to offer services and continued contact with the public without interruption.  There are many nonprofits and businesses who were not so lucky.  In our case, it was only a little luck.  We followed the principles of “prior planning prevents poor performance!.”  In fact, we reduced expenses, we made do with what we had on hand and we each worked remotely to meet the needs of the organization. 

Thank you all for your continued support of our efforts to promote the safety and protection of all children and caregivers.  As we begin this new year and chapter, one of our many goals for the year is achieving a succession plan for the future, which means aggressively soliciting more funding, recruitment of new volunteers along with creating additional volunteer opportunities.  In addition to this we will recruit new members for consideration to our Board.  

Raising awareness of our services is always crucial in order to inform the public of the help they can receive when they contact us.

There are a few awareness causes for the month of January coming up:

• January is National Stalking Awareness Month.
• January is National Mentoring Month- If you have ever mentored, this can have such a positive effect on lives, especially in teens and children.
  
  May this year bring prosperity, peace, and happiness to all of you.

Len Edwards, Executive Director
Crissy Baker, Volunteer Coordinator
Deborah Underwood, Office Manager
Sergeant Harris, MPD Police Liaison 

Thank you for your incredible support this year. Together, we’re making a difference. Wishing you and your loved ones a season filled with joy and hope. 🎄✨

Great news everyone – we are pleased to announce that our offices at the Juvenile Court have reopened, and our phone lines have been restored. We are happy to be back, and glad the issues with the building have been resolved.

Everyone, please click here for the photographs for the 2024 COMEC annual golf tournament.

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Thanks to everyone for coming out, and thanks to our sponsors!

Thanks to our hole sponsors!

1. A.C.R.E.(Retired City Employees)
2. BELFOR Property Restoration
3. Canup Engineering
4. Harvey Cook
5. Huey’s
6. IBEW (International Electrical Workers)
7. Jackson House Plumbing
8. Lakeside Behavioral
9. Rockers Oysterfella
10.Russann Lumber
11.Wood, Smith and Elzey

I hope you and yours have had a wonderful holiday season, and I hope you are looking to continue your efforts to provide leadership and help for our work at COMEC

During 2023, our nonprofit charity has continued to meet the needs of the community by maintaining our service programs to all who need them, free of charge. 

We have:

• Maintained an up-to-date comprehensive web site that promoted COMEC and the services we provide.
• Maintained our Child Safety Programs
• Maintained our Teen Substance Abuse Program
• Participated in the Juvenile Court’s Truancy Prevention Program
• Provided technical support for parents, caregivers and Law Enforcement who are searching forand recovering children
• Provided free counseling for children and families at our Juvenile Court Office
• Presented our 29^th Annual Charity Golf Tourney fundraiser
• Continued additional fundraising  for our worthwhile programs and services

This New Year (2024) will our organization’s 40^th anniversary of operation.  Our organization has been working to promote the safety and protection of all children since 1984.  This is quite an achievement that many nonprofits do not share.  Most non-profits have a life span of less than 20 yers.

Our longevity is due to the continued reliable free services that we provide.  This coupled with the long standing caring and support of our Board Members, Juvenile Court, Memphis Police Department and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department all have all contributed to our success over the past forty years.

Having been Executive Director for the past thirty (30) years of COMEC has been my honor and privilege and I particularly appreciate the continued opportunity to work with troubled families and their children.  I have often said that if a person has helped one child then you have left your mark on this walk of life.

Len Edwards

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COMEC is a non-profit agency that was established in 1984 as a cooperative effort between the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County and area law enforcement to better address the issues surrounding missing children and the issues that affect them.

COMEC has remained fully operational during 2021 and into 2022, and our offices and services have been open every day that the Court was open for business during the Pandemic. In 2021, COMEC experienced a continued decrease in the number of persons physically present in the Court and the majority of our services have been provided through telephonic or electronic data communications.

The COMEC Office handled calls for technical assistance on issues related to missing children (Runaways, Parental Abduction, and Stranger Abduction). Our services were provided free of charge to Law Enforcement, the Department of Children’s Services, Juvenile Court, and many others. COMEC also provides Child Safety Educational Programs, Teen Substance Abuse Screening, Bullying, and other programs to the community free of charge.

COMEC is very fortunate to have the continued support of the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County and the Memphis Police Department. In fact, COMEC has an MPD Liaison Officer who promotes additional contact with area youth and the issues that affect them. Sgt. Tucker is also the Child Abduction Response Team representative and assists with AMBER Alerts.