Shelby County
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) was awarded $265,000 by the U.S. Department of Health and Services (HHS). This funding will help PPGMR expand and enhance its existing High Impact HIV Prevention program, as well as allow PPGMR to expand its outreach to the Spanish-speaking community.
Dear Friend,
I am writing to you today from Washington, DC. After spending the week in Memphis, I came back to attend many events surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington taking place in our nation’s capital over the next week, including a breakfast with Dr. C.T. Vivian tomorrow.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – After President Obama announced a new agenda to fight rising college costs and keep higher education within reach for middle class families this morning, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) highlighted his work to make college more affordable for Memphians and Tennesseans. When he served in the Tennessee Senate, Congressman Cohen led the fight to create the HOPE Scholarship program and in Washington he has fought to keep student loan rates down as well as to treat private student loan debt the same as other types of private loan debt.
[MEMPHIS, TN] -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Serenity Recovery Centers in Memphis has been awarded $520,000 in funding to expand and enhance substance abuse and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services for low-income African American women. The grant comes through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will be used on Serenity’s collaborative Memphis Substance-Using Women’s Action Team (SWAT) project.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the Memphis-based Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation (Seedco) Mid-South has been awarded $1,216,013 in grant funding to help provide in-person assistance to area residents who want additional help in shopping for and enrolling in plans available through the health insurance Marketplaces that will open this fall. This funding comes through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Navigator grant program.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the University of Memphis has been awarded a $311,662 research grant that will spur computer software research to help make software development less time-consuming and easier. The funding will be used by the University to conduct research to improve the methods with which software developers use code to obtain information.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – After a dozen organizations from across the political spectrum thanked him for leading a successful effort to curb wasteful and risky spending in the Fiscal Year 2014 Defense Department Appropriations bill, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today highlighted his work to rein in our overgrown defense sector and protect taxpayers as well as critically important projects, programs and agencies—from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and early childhood education to infrastructure and food stamps—from the disastrous effects of though
[MEMPHIS, TN] — Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and more than 200 of his House colleagues in calling on Speaker Boehner not to push more Americans into hunger. In a letter, they urged the Speaker to include funding for nutrition programs in any future Farm Bill that comes before the House of Representatives. Nearly 270,000 residents of Shelby County, Tennessee, rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—more than double any other county in the state.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has been awarded a total of $187,500 in funding to study emotional disorders related to traumatic brain injury. This grant funding comes through the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
“These funds will help continue the important work being done by the skilled researchers at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis,” said Congressman Cohen.