LA Aims 4 the Heart

Expand existing program

Convergence & Freeborn Productions, in collaboration with Aim 4 the Heart, work as the for-profit vertical that will allow for Aim 4 the Heart to scale as a non-profit organization. We will be building out the infrastructure, county broad reach, brand integration & donations, live event actions, and volunteers to scale what has already successfully worked, to a more extensive scope of audiences and individuals.

Emotional health doesn't have a face. Our curriculum is applicable to the affluent as well as underserved communities. It creates and builds bridges between high and low functioning individuals, across social class, race, gender, age, and geographic divides by utilizing topics to unify all participants. As an organization our primary focus historically and currently has been to provide services to high risk and underserved communities. Heart Sessions workshop has now been serving the Central Long Beach community since 2009, servicing high-risk youth between the ages of 14-24. Open Mic Sessions has been offering community programming for 20 years within all of Los Angeles County & City of LA. The curriculum has been refined over the course of this time with coarse material and workbooks now available. LA Aims 4 the Heart exponentially grows our organization’s efforts by making the curriculum available digitally and to targeted Los Angeles neighborhoods.

In 1996 AIM was incorporated as Assemblies In Motion. In 2014, AIM officially changed its name to AIM 4 The Heart to reflect almost thirty years of creating and implementing a sustainable model of community-based programs designed to positively intervene in the lives of high-risk youth and individuals through the arts. After 25 years of experience hosting assemblies and facilitating workshops, Leila decided to move the organization’s work forward by having her life’s work developed into a curricular model called heArt Education that could be implemented inside of schools, community centers, juvenile halls, institutions, trauma centers, and prisons. At its core, heArt Education is an adaptable emotional literacy curriculum that utilizes the visual and performing arts as the primary medium to facilitate dialogue about varied topics. Leila has assembled a team of highly qualified teachers and volunteers who have a history of successful program administration.

Our program brings an arts and emotional literacy program to the fingertips of Angelenos through online and mobile accessibility. That digital experience grows into live connection. It's important, especially in this climate, to give our youth access to these tools at home to guide them through this experience. Expression through art will help create a future population of Angelenos that are more emotionally intelligent. The program unites Angelenos around shared core values, experiences, and expression. Making this knowledge accessible assists in relieving the angst that many of us are feeling and will have a positive impact on our mental health as we move through these uncertain times.