Heart 2025 - saint francis ministries will implement the heart 2025 program to provide healthy marriage and relationship education services across kansas, nebraska, arkansas, oklahoma, and texas

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Saint Francis Community and Residential Services, Inc. a $2.5 million Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086).

Saint Francis will implement the HEART 2025 program to deliver healthy marriage and relationship education services across Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas through September 29, 2030. The program will provide the evidence-based ELEVATE curriculum along with supplementary workshops on economic advancement and parenting skills targeted primarily at adults and couples involved with the child welfare system. Services will be delivered through a combination of in-person and virtual workshops and individualized case management to accommodate rural participants. Over the five-year period, HEART 2025 will serve 900 individuals who attend at least 90 percent of primary workshops. Saint Francis, a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Salina, Kansas, specializes in child welfare services and family support programs and has been registered in SAM.gov since August 2015. Place of performance is Kansas.

The program will deliver the evidence-based elevate curriculum, with supplementary workshops on economic advancement and parenting skills for adults and couples primarily involved with the child welfare system. Services will be delivered both in-person and virtually to accommodate rural participants through a combination of workshops and individualized case management. Over five years, heart 2025 will serve 900 individuals who attend at least 90% of primary workshops across the five-state region.