Building A Stronger Family

05/13/2026

Whether it’s giving talks at schools or counseling children directly, she’s committed to serving the youth.

REPORT: https://www.21alivenews.com/2026/05/12/fort-wayne-woman-driven-by-personal-journey-help-others-struggling-with-mental-health/

05/12/2026

Building A Stronger Family's youth department started with one pillar in it and over the past few years we have seen growth and expansion having added 3 other pillars for youth programming.

-Financial Literacy
-Shadow For Success
-Gear Up
-BLISS

Each pillar aims to empower and inspire youths mental, physical, spiritual and emotional development.

We see youth where they're at. We hear youth where they're at. So, we MEET them where they're at.

Want more information on one or more of these pillars make sure to check out our website or direct message us and we will gladly connect with you.

https://buildingastrongerfamily.org

STRONG FAMILIES
BUILD STRONG COMMUNITIES

02/27/2026

Our partners Building A Stronger Family are launching Round 2 of the youth-led Black Youth Su***de Project. Youth will be compensated for their time. Please consider sharing this with Black, Black Biracial, or Afro-Latino/a youth in your life!

01/08/2026

Money Matters!

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01/07/2026

Enrollment is now open for our financial literacy program Money Matters 💰

🗓️ Start Date: Saturday Jan. 31
🕙 Time: 10:30am to 11:30am
👤 Who: 13-17 year olds

Youth will learn practical skills they can use now and in the future: budgeting, banking, credit, investing, stock market, smart decision making and more!

Youth will receive $200 for budgeting and $100 to invest in the stock market!

We'd love for your youth to be a part of this opportunity to create generational wealth.

SIGN UP NOW❗️
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10/19/2025

What a night of COMING FULL CIRCLE! A night to come to together and celebrate the 10 years of legendary work Building A Stronger Family has done.

10 years of service
10years of love
10 years of community
10 years of unity
10 years of healing
10 years of transformation
10 years of growth
10 years of collaborative work

Thank you to everyone who came out. Thank you to all our sponsors and collaborative partners for this 10 year journey! We hope you stick with us and help us through the next 10!

04/30/2025

BASF Mentor group (girls) from Lane Middle School took a trip to Sweetwater today!

Wrapping up the school year with some fun and new experiences with these girls!

Thank you Sweetwater for welcoming us and sharing your space with us. Thank you Lane Middle School for the support and encouragement towards helping us empower and guide your girls!

11/05/2024

10/15/2024

And that is a wrap to our Black Youth Su***de ambassadors group!!

It was a fun, exciting, informative, supportive, empowering and inspiring 4 days with the youth. It was an honor and privilege to hear them voice their voices out on the matter of Black Youth Su***de.

We want to let all youth and specially our Black youth know that you are truly not alone in your walk of life but even more so your walk of mental health.

HUGE shout out and thank you to Dr. Tennisha Riley and Jazlyn Rowan for taking their time and days to come out to Fort Wayne and initiate and execute this work the way that they did.

Shout out and thank you to Colleen Carpenter and Lauren O'Reilly for their presentation that was packed with amazing data for our youth.

Shout out and thank you to everyone who played an important part behind the scenes in recruitment, outreach and engagement.

The work continues and we can't wait to meet with this group again soon!!