POWER ATL Pathways to Prosperity: Strategies for Self-Sufficiency, Healthy Relationships & Thriving Futures - Project Summary Project Title: POWER ATL Pathways to Prosperity: Strategies for Self-Sufficiency, Healthy Relationships & Thriving Futures Applicant: P.O.W.E.R. Atlanta, Inc. Address: 1024 Avon Avenue SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30310 Phone Number: 404-301-9989 Email Address: agates@poweratl.org – grants@poweratl.org Requested Amount: $450,000 annually for each of three 12-month budget periods, approximately $1,350,000 over a 36-month project period beginning September 30, 2026 P.O.W.E.R. Atlanta, Inc., a Georgia 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, proposes to deliver General Departmental Sexual Risk Avoidance Education to 800 unduplicated youth ages 10 through 19 over a three-year project period. The project serves a five-ZIP-Code Tabulation Area corridor in Southwest Atlanta and adjacent South Fulton County (ZCTAs 30310, 30311, 30314, 30315, and 30344), an area of approximately 155,192 residents, including an estimated 14,173 youth ages 10 through 19, with an aggregate poverty rate of 25.5 percent. Youth in this corridor experience elevated reportable sexually transmitted disease rates, chronic school absenteeism, and documented trafficking vulnerability, alongside a persistent teen birth rate, conditions that together support the need for accessible, voluntary sexual risk avoidance education. The project will use Love Notes 4.2, Abstinence Only Edition, published by the Dibble Institute, as its sole primary curriculum, delivered across thirteen lessons in twelve-week cohorts. The curriculum addresses all six statutory topics required under 42 U.S.C. 710(b)(3) and incorporates the Success Sequence for Poverty Prevention. Every participant also receives POWER’s Human Trafficking Universal Education Module, meeting the federal universal-education requirement. Programming is delivered at POWER’s 7,600-square-foot headquarters in Year 1, with controlled expansion to school, community, and specialized-partner sites in Years 2 and 3. POWER will serve approximately 160 youth through 8 cohorts in Year 1, 280 youth through 14 cohorts in Year 2, and 360 youth through 18 cohorts in Year 3. POWER’s project team includes a dedicated Project Director, a Program Coordinator, two SRAE Youth Facilitators, and a Data and Performance Specialist, supported by POWER’s Executive Director and existing fiscal infrastructure. The project will collect and report OMB-approved performance measures semiannually, monitor curriculum fidelity against a 90 percent standard, and use a structured continuous quality improvement process at the close of each cohort wave. POWER does not propose to conduct an optional local evaluation and will direct resources instead toward required performance measurement and fidelity monitoring; POWER agrees to participate in the national evaluation if selected by FYSB. The project’s sustainability plan builds on infrastructure, certifications, and referral relationships POWER operates today independent of this award, so that project elements continue to function regardless of any single year’s federal funding decision.
