Boone Memorial Health

Project Name:

Growing Futures @ Market on Main

Award Received:

$125,000.00

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Award Summary:

Funds are being used to expand Growing Futures @ Market on Main, a structured youth prevention initiative serving at-risk children ages 8 to 13 in Southern West Virginia. This investment supports weekly mentoring circles and greenhouse-based horticulture programming that integrates evidence-informed social-emotional learning with hands-on, STEAM-focused education. By targeting youth with high ACE scores, foster care involvement, or parental incarceration, the program fills a critical gap in consistent after-school prevention services. Resources strengthen mentoring relationships, experiential learning, and community engagement opportunities that build resilience, improve school connection and healthy habits, and reduce the likelihood of risk behaviors, advancing WVFF’s youth prevention priorities with measurable, long-term outcomes.