ABOUT MUM
A Community Development Center
Founded in 2024, Mane Up Memphis™ is a community development center focused on strengthening community wellness through mental health services, financial education, and prevention-focused programming across Shelby County and West Tennessee.
We work alongside children, youth, young adults, and families to heal emotionally and grow financially, creating stronger and more stable communities.
Because when individuals and families thrive, communities thrive.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Racheal Shantel
With academic training in Human Sciences, Commercial Construction Management, City and Regional Planning, and Local Government Management, Racheal Shantel brings a multidisciplinary perspective to one central question: What does it take to build stable communities? Now pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Affairs, her work examines how public policy, health, human behavior, and place shape community stability, leading to the development of her Community Stability Loop, a framework grounded in investing in both people and place. That philosophy became Mane Up Memphis™, a behavioral health community development organization that invests in people before instability becomes crisis through preventive education, emotional wellness, financial learning, and community connection. Her vision extends beyond programs to building communities where youth, young adults, and families have the tools and support to heal emotionally, grow financially, and thrive where they live.