About

Our Mission

The cycle of criminal behavior is difficult to break and often involves a comprehensive approach to address a host of issues; including but not limited to: Employment, Housing, Substance Abuse, Mental Health Treatment, Education, Healthy Living/Wellness, Recovery, Financial Literacy, Life Skills Training and Trauma Informed Care. We will extend all services to our Honored Veterans population to enhance, enrich, and empower their lives.

Our organization sees a world without poverty, identifying institutional obstacles and finding ways to remove barriers that will ensure more opportunities, reduce recidivism, take a measured approach to crime reduction, and eradicate inequities.

We will discover a Vision, Interpret a Mission and Disseminate a Strategy that will afford everyone their GOD given right to a Quality Life. 

SLED Board of Directors

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Darvin D. Lewis

Mr. Lewis is an entrepreneur that has over 15 years of a proven record of growing direct sales and marketing services for Telecommunications, Energy, Cable, Utility Company Service plans, and Gov’t programs. He is the CEO of Quality Residential Services, LLC (QRS Marketing Group) a direct sales and marketing firm he founded in early 2009 that offers various Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 clients campaigns through business-to-consumer, business-to-business, & business-to-retail.

He grew QRS’s client base to 20+ clients with 5 of them being Fortune 100 companies since company’s inception.

Prior to establishing QRS Marketing Group he held Management positions for Just Energy Marketing Corp as the Regional Distributor in Michigan, New York, and Ohio.

DTE Energy, Supervisor, Detroit Michigan- Revenue recovery department.

Male2Man Ministries, Founder, Male enrichment program committed to ‘Impart to Empower’ young males to become more impactful Men in society.

Mr Lewis served as a Sergeant in the US Army, XVIII Airborne Corp, Ft Bragg, NC from 1985-1989. During his military career he was deployed to Honduras, Panama, and Grenada.

Education: Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute, Indiana ITT Technical Institute, Troy, Michigan Faith Bible College, Detroit, Michigan
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Rev. Yvette McCrackin Ursery

Rev. Yvette McCrackin Ursery is a World Changer overflowed with God's love with a range of responsibilities. And out of that love, she has invested her God-given gifts to serve others, fulfilling the words of 1 Peter 4:10 (ESV) "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace." in the continued work of servanthood by recognizing and respecting the values of inclusiveness, reaching all people with compassion and commitment. Rev. Yvette has served for over 20 years as a realtor leading to her current role as CEO of cyds, LLC dba cyds Real Estate and Design. Handling the general public and her company's most stressful profit and loss transitions and personal assets with thought, care, and diligence have made all the difference in the world with people's lives. Not only does she design people's lives physically but spiritually as well helped her to transition to the CEO of cyds, LLC dba jjjs a Ministry, which allowed Rev. Yvette to collaborate with different ministries, specifically My Brother's Keeper Homeless Outreach Ministry, and various church programs. Rev. Yvette serves as a Pastoral Chaplain serving 11 Ascension St. Vincents Hospitals throughout the state of Indiana. Addressing daily emotional and spiritual distress, suffering, death or end of life, grief, relationships with or without God for all religion demographics, moral ethics, advance directives, support isolation, rituals, sacraments, funerals, celebrations, and much more for all visitors, patients, and staff. In addition, Rev. Yvette is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Indiana Wesley Seminary working on her Spiritual Formation dissertation project estimating the graduating date of 12/2023. Lastly, Rev. Yvette is an Associate minister and teacher for The Trinity Center Youth and Family Services Church, reaching all people with compassion and commitment. Rev. Yvette is an advocate and servant to humanity's benefit, bringing a good quality of life, wholeness, spirituality, and total transformation to all people.

 

Rev. Yvette was responsible for managing Cummins International Accounts for Ceva Logistics, through significant market challenges while managing to find innovative increase opportunities for revenue growth. Rev. Yvette served for over 20 years as the Youth Works Coordinator for Olivet Missionary Baptist Church Youth Ministry. Yvette worked in Campus Ministry and Community Service Ministry at Bishop Chatard Archdiocesan High School. She also assisted with the Nursing Home Ministry with the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center Hooverwood Senior Living. Periodically Rev. Yvette worked with Mozel Sanders on the Yearly Thanksgiving Day Meal. Yvette was a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity Women Build. She participated in the Leadership Evaluation & Awareness Program. She worked as United Way Coordinator for 3 years. She completed the Pre-Leadership Management Training Program for previous employers.

 

Rev. Yvette graduated Cum Laud with her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Indiana Institute of Technology, Ft. Wayne, Indiana in May 2002. She continued her education by completing her Master of Divinity at Indiana Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University Marion, Indiana April 2018. In 2019 she received her Chaplaincy Intern Certification through Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) from Ascension St. Vincent Hospital. She has completed all educational classes in the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) Program at Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University, and is currently working on her Project Dissertation.

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Our Organization

Charleston L. Bowles

President

Frederic I. Bowles

VP of Operations

John T. Smith

VP of Development

Gina E. Bowles

VP of Client Services

Duane Gunn

VP of Human Resources

S.L.E.D. Funding