HealthMPowers

12/28/2025

🌟 Help Us Empower Georgia’s Youth Leaders! 🌟

As we step into 2026, HealthMPowers is taking a bold leap to amplify youth voices and drive healthier communities. We’re creating a digital Youth Health Leader Platform—a safe, secure space where young changemakers can connect, collaborate, and lead together.

This platform is shaped by youth, for youth, and your year-end gift will make it possible. Your support creates:
✅ Connection – Linking youth health leaders across Georgia to share ideas and resources.
✅ Community – Building a network where young voices are heard and valued.
✅ Growth – Providing digital tools for leadership training and health advocacy.
🎁 Give today and help us build the future of youth health leadership!

https://healthmpowers.org/donate/

12/23/2025

Happy holidays from your HealthMPowers team! Get outside, eat some food that nourishes your body and spirit, and don't forget to laugh!

12/21/2025

🎁 Our Healthy Holiday Wish for Georgia’s Youth Leaders 🎁

As 2025 wraps up, our team is filled with gratitude. 🙏

This year, we:
🥕 Rescued 66,924 pounds of food
💚 Certified youth in Mental Health First Aid
🏅 Elevated Youth Advisory Board leaders to statewide recognition

But the BEST is yet to come…

In 2026, we’re launching a digital platform to connect youth health advocates across Georgia—creating year-round community, peer support, and collaboration that doesn’t exist today.

Your gift isn’t just tech. It’s belonging. Connection. Empowerment. 💛
It’s the moment a youth leader realizes: I’m not alone in this work.
👉 Make the Vision Real: https://healthmpowers.org/donate/

Let’s give Georgia’s youth the BEST gift for 2026. 💫

12/19/2025

Our team is winding down for the year and we are so nourished from our time this week at Stone Mill ES! Thank you to everyone who made it possble!

12/19/2025

✨ Giving Back: Our HealthMPowers Annual Service Tradition ✨

Every year, our team closes out the year by giving back—and this year was no exception! We joined forces with Helping Hands Ending Hunger, DC77-IUPAT, and the amazing Student Health Advocates at Stone Mill Elementary, a proud HealthMPowers partner school.

Together, we packed bags filled with:
🍎 Fresh apples
🥔 Sweet potatoes
🥬 Cabbage
🥩 Meats
🛒 Pantry staples

Each bag included healthy recipe ideas to inspire families to make nutritious meals at home. The food was distributed to families at dismissal. This annual service tradition for our staff reminds us that when we work together, we can make a real difference in our communities. 💪

12/16/2025

Exciting News!

HealthMPowers is partnering with Share Our Strength's Kid Hungry campaign to tackle food insecurity in Georgia. Did you know young people make up the majority of Georgians who rely on food assistance? At the same time, their voices are rarely part of the debate and conversation! That ends now. Through a new grant, we'll be working together to amplify youth voices and educate young people about food assistance programs, and support new innovations to increase food access like summer EBT. 💪🍎

We welcome Kate Goodin, Senior Manager for the No Kid Hungry State Campaigns, to the HealthMPowers community. "Centering young people in conversations about nutrition programs like summer EBT recognizes the power of youth voices, especially because these programs support their peers and help ensure every child has the nutrition they need to thrive."

12/16/2025

Look at these Eagle's Landing GEMs! They spent the afternoon ziplining at Banning Mills as part of the Girls Empowering Movement goal of providing unique opportunities for girls to experience different kinds of physical activities, and build leadership skills and confidence at the same time.

12/11/2025

Time out for a little FUN! (One of the HealthMPowers values, BTW. 😉) We're celebrating long-time staff member, Kendall, who had a goal of getting out of her comfort zone in 2025 and joined an improv troupe . A year of growth in public speaking, problem solving and confidence came to a head this week as she performed in her first public show! And, you might notice another HealthMPowers alumni in the photos - Suzanne Glenn came out of retirement to be in the audience and was even chosen to come on stage. Join us in celebrating Kendall!

12/05/2025

Each year, our team does a service project to close the year. On Dec. 17th we'll be at one of our partner schools, Stone Mill ES, packaging food to send home to families for the holiday season. Showing up in community with our people is one of our values - in it together - and we invite YOU to join us. We're collecting food and essentials to be handed out on the 17th. You can donate non-perishable items and we'll make sure they get where they are most needed. DM us for more info.!

We are partnering with Helping Hands Ending Hunger INC. for another food drive! Come help us support the community in Dekalb County. This drive will take place Wednesday, December 17th at Stone Mill Elementary School (4900 Sheila Ln, Stone Mountain, GA 30083). Volunteers please arrive by 12pm to pack bags. If you and your family need food the distribution and loading cars will be from 2:30 pm to 4:30pm!

12/04/2025

We did it—together! 💛

Because of YOU, we met our $5,000 match and raised nearly $10,000 this Giving Tuesday to support Georgia’s youth leaders.

Your generosity means that in 2026:

✅ 300+ youth will be trained in Mental Health First Aid

✅ GEM will reach even more counties

✅ More student-led food pantries will open

✅ And more youth discovering their power to lead

You didn’t just help us reach a goal—you joined a movement. And it’s just getting started.

💛 Thank you for believing in Georgia’s young leaders who are transforming their schools and communities.

12/02/2025

It's —and Georgia's youth are already leading the change. 🌟

A Murray County student wasn't sure about joining the food pantry program. Then she saw food being thrown away while families were hungry.

"I loved being in charge of all the bags. I loved being needed."

This year: 66,924 lbs rescued. 2,000 families served. One student discovered her power.

That's happening everywhere:

💪🏽 500+ schools → 14 million minutes of physical activity logged

💪🏽 Youth leaders → winning statewide awards

💪🏽 Students → being certified as Mental Health First Aid responders

Youth don't just participate. They lead the change.

Today, every $ is MATCHED up to $5,000. https://bit.ly/4pgClLk

Join us as we aspire to a vision where every child is nourished and active!

12/01/2025

A note from our Board Chair, Jasmine Hoffman:

"Every time I meet a student impacted by HealthMPowers, you can see the difference—in their confidence, in their energy, in how they carry themselves. It's beautiful."

💎I've watched Pratima grow from a nervous 7th grader presenting to our board to a confident senior co-chairing our Youth Advisory Board.

💫I've watched Alvaro find his voice in board meetings and become Georgia's Rising Star Award winner, awarded by the Georgia Afterschool and Youth Development Initiative.

💪🏽At our Youth Summit, I met 26 youth leaders from 20 counties—and I saw that beautiful difference in every single one.

That's why our Board is matching every gift tomorrow on , up to $5,000.

You can see the difference when youth lead the change. Please oin us and invest in this work! https://bit.ly/4pgClLk

— Jasmine Hoffman, Board Chair