Love of Bonita – Success Stories – Recent grant recipients from the Bonita Fund of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation that have been successful as a result of the generosity of others. Spring Creek Elementary School: purchased paperback books that are given away to every child who attends the monthly Roaring Readers program. Pinewoods Elementary School: Enhanced their outreach program for the lowest 25% of the school population through the mobile Classroom on Wheels (COW) program. Abuse Counseling & Treatment: Assisted with a portion of the salary of one counselor who provides outreach counseling and supportive services. For more information contact: Melinda Isley, APR, m.creativepr, 239-274-7736, [email protected] Produced by Bill Rogers

 

FEMA Approves .2 Million for Post-Sandy Mental-Health Outreach

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Within two weeks of receiving the ISP grant, Project Hope will have crisis counseling staff, professional (social workers) and indigenous community workers under their supervision, engaged in outreach to find and engage impacted individuals and deliver …
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The scope of an idea: Creating Tribe Rides increases access to off-campus …

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… '14 and Health Outreach Peer Educators, as well as the Student Assembly, for their recent creation and funding of Tribe Rides, a program designed to reimburse students for 50 percent of the cost of a taxi ride to and from an off-campus counseling …
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MMI Study Suggests Need for Holistic Debt Counseling

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"As students and borrowers continue to struggle in these challenging economic times and with increasing student loan debt loads and default rates, the local and personalized debt counseling, outreach and financial literacy activities that the members …
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