The Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Awards Community Grant to Love Heals in New York, NY

In 2006, Love Heals launched the Leadership Empowerment and Awareness Program (LEAP) for Girls in response to increasing rates of HIV among young women of color in New York City. The program focuses on neighborhoods in Harlem, the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn that have felt the greatest impact from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Partnering with individual schools and community-based organizations, LEAP for Girls provides young women of color between the ages of 12 and 18 with training in leadership skills as well as information on HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health issues.