Strengthening youth and nurturing connections will help 1,575 youth in monroe county, MS develop relationship skills for a successful transition to adulthood using love notes 4.1 and money…

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families awarded Aiming For Healthy Families Inc. a $1.237857 million Cooperative Agreement on September 30, 2025, under the Healthy Marriage Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants program (CFDA 93.086).

Aiming For Healthy Families Inc. will implement the Strengthening Youth and Nurturing Connections (SYNC) project, delivering 12-hour workshops using the Love Notes 4.1 and Money Habitudes for Teens curricula to high school students in grades 9–12. The project will serve 350 students annually, reaching 1,575 youth over the five-year performance period ending September 29, 2030. Sessions will be conducted in school settings across the Aberdeen, Amory, and Monroe County school districts in Mississippi. The workshops are designed to help youth build relationship skills, improve family functioning and self-esteem, and prepare for successful transitions to adulthood with greater economic stability.

Place of performance is Corinth, Mississippi. Aiming For Healthy Families Inc., a woman-owned nonprofit headquartered in Corinth, has implemented youth development and health education programs in rural northeast Mississippi for over twenty years.

Strengthening youth and nurturing connections will help 1,575 youth in monroe county, MS develop relationship skills for a successful transition to adulthood using love notes 4.1 and money habitudes. - aiming for healthy families, INC. Will implement the strengthening youth and nurturing connections (sync) project to serve 350 high school students annually in grades 9-12 in monroe county, mississippi. The project will deliver 12-hour workshops using love notes 4.1 and money habitudes for teens curricula to help youth build relationship skills and prepare for successful transitions to adulthood. Sessions will be conducted in school settings across aberdeen, amory, and monroe county school districts. Over the five-year project period, sync will serve 1,575 youth, improving their family functioning, self-esteem, and economic stability.