HEART Program

 

History of HEART

The Four Mounds Foundation has provided innovative approaches to engage at-risk and disconnected youth since 1995. Over 4500 young people have participated in exceptional vocational training, team building and recreational programs.

By 2000, the City of Dubuque had targeted the Washington Neighborhood for revitalization and asked Four Mounds to take our innovative approach off-site and into a neighborhood where properties were blighted and police had the highest calls for service.

Together we created the Housing Education and Rehabilitation Training Program and what evolved is HEART YouthBuild, where students are leading community revitalization while building themselves up—working toward post-secondary education, developing viable careers and becoming better leaders.

Click on the video below to see our HEART students at work transforming the Washington Neighborhood in Dubuque. Click here to view the HEART booklet, our advertisement pamplet for the HEART Program. You will need Adobe Reader, free software, to view it.

Variety the Children's Charity Helps HEART Students Succeed  

 

 

 

YouthBuild Affiliation

In January 2009, the HEART Program in Dubuque became a YouthBuild USA Provisional Affiliate which means we are part of a larger association of like-minded programs across the United States.

As an affiliate, we’re able to learn best practices from other communities and better connect to other programs and resources to improve what we’re doing with young people in Dubuque.

To learn more about YouthBuild USA, click on the video below or visit www.youthbuild.org .