Project Grant 24A60CP000168

The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to Pee Dee Healthy Start, Inc. (doing business as PD Healthy Start), a Black American-owned non-profit organization based in South Carolina. The grant, provided under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA 17.289), will fund initiatives to promote healthy families and relationships in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2027. PD Healthy Start focuses on providing sexual risk avoidance education, healthy family frameworks, and community-based programs aimed at improving the well-being of families in the Pee Dee area. This grant award builds upon the organization's previous federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, including a Sexual Risk Avoidance Education Program grant and a Pee Dee Healthy Start Frameworks grant.