Heart Change Ministries Inc

Our programs include a pre-school educational program for children ages 0 to 5. We served approximately 45 pre-school children over the course of 2024, plus an additional 47 grade school and high school children in the summer months and school vacation weeks. Our goal is to prepare our pre-school children for their academic journey so that they enter kindergarten on par with or ahead of their classmates who have benefitted from pre-school experiences. Specific learning objectives are: appropriate social behavior, develop listening skills, follow instructions, fine motor skills, large motor skills, letters, colors, numbers, understanding the concept of being asked a question and answering a question and building vocabulary. In the summer of 2024, we continued to support our high school aged boys with developing future vision for their lives post high school providing significant experiences and field to expose them to a wide range of opportunities for work/careers as well as a college campus visit to connect them with an advisor, breakdown fears of the unknown and help them see that college could be a reality for them. During the fall semester of 2024, we launched our intensive parenting course, invested moms, with six mothers. Each of these moms were highly traumatized as a child, not raised by mother and came into motherhood with virtually no role models or advance knowledge of childhood development. This course is designed to promote and teach healthy attachment, prevent trauma and foster intentional parenting for healthy brain development during the first three years of life. We also launched a new social enterprise which will allow us to employ more women earlier in their heart change journey.

Food: in 2024, we fed approximately 3689 children's breakfast snacks and 7833 lunches for all. Much of the food we serve is donated; however, we do purchase a significant amount of it. We also continued to distribute food to our most food insecure families at the end of each month, focusing on protein, dairy, and fruits and vegetables. On average we are distributing food to 7 families per month.