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Okaloosa County Public Works, the Okaloosa School District and the Sheriff’s Office want to improve kids’ routes to school.

Michael Anderson, an engineering technician for the county, said the three agencies are working on an application for the Safe Routes to School grant through the state Department of Transportation. The grant covers the costs of needed infrastructure within a two-mile radius of the county’s most deserving schools.

“We have citizen concerns at a couple of locations where students were walking and it is a hazard,” Anderson said.

Those areas include north Crestview, Fort Walton Beach and Niceville, Anderson said. Anderson said the grant would cover 100 percent of costs associated with the extent of the work needed.

“We are trying to figure out where our needs are,” Anderson said. He said from what he sees on a regular basis, some schools need updates.

“There are schools in the county where kids are walking in ditches,” Venuti said. It’s a priority not only for the (school) district, but for us.”

Anderson said he is not sure when the funds will be awarded if the county wins the grant, but it is something he will make a priority now and in the future.

“It’ll be a lot safer for kids,” Anderson said.

Vital organisations working on projects to support people with mental health issues in Leeds have been handed a massive cash boost.

The Leeds Community Foundation (LCF), which partnered with the Yorkshire Evening Post for the #SpeakYourMind campaign launch on Monday, gave out a series of significant grants to mental health projects across the city.

The Strategic Health grants came from The Leeds Fund – which was set up in June with backing from the YEP as a way of giving extra help to community groups.

This year the fund has made mental health projects a key priority.

And Sally-Anne Greenfield, LCF chief executive, said the organisation has had an “overwhelming” number of applications in the latest grant round.

She said: “We are delighted that we have been able to support 6 fantastic projects that will help a variety of local people living with mental health problems and look forward to tracking their success to see how they have positively impacted our communities.

“Although we want to do more, the response to the first round of Leeds Fund Strategic Mental Health Grants was overwhelming receiving nearly 1.5m worth of applications from local community projects doing great work across the city.”

Dozens of organisations and services across Leeds, focusing on projects with mental health, applied to the LCF for funding from the pot in the latest round.

And six lucky groups were given a cash boost of more than 10,000 last week after being successful in the application process.

They include Leeds Mind, Getaway Girls, Leeds Women’s Aid, SignHealth, Women’s Counselling and Therapy and Leeds 14 Trust Company Limited.

Mrs Greenfield added: “Due to the high volume of quality applications, the Foundation is committed to raising more funds to help the projects that we have been unable to support in this first round.

“In order to do this we are calling on support from businesses and individuals to give what they can to The Leeds Fund to support these vital projects and help even more people in Leeds to improve their mental wellbeing.”

One of the organisations to receive a grant is the Leeds Mind charity, which supports people with mental health difficulties in the city.

The charity’s new project will be a peer support service, launching in January, for the city’s LGBT community to address a lack in support for the community in Leeds.

As part of the year-long project, a group worker, who is part of the LGBT community and has had their own experiences with mental health difficulties, will be appointed by the charity.

Helen Kemp, chief executive of the Leeds Mind charity, said: “We are delighted to be funded by the LCF’s Leeds Fund to do much needed work with mental health difficulties in Leeds.

“The grant will help us to continue our important work in the city with different groups of people.”

Another project that will receive funding from the LCF is being run by SignHealth, a charity that works to ensure people who are born deaf have access to healthcare and information.

The YEP’s #SpeakYourMind campaign launched on Monday, in partnership with the LCF who held a pioneering event for business leaders in Leeds to raise awareness about mental health issues.

The Leeds Leads: Healthy Minds for a Thriving City event last night included moving speeches from former Downing Street press secretary Alastair Campbell and ex-Leeds United footballer Clarke Carlisle, who have both battled with depression.

As part of our #SpeakYourMind campaign, the YEP is calling on businesses to pledge their support to the Mindful Employer Leeds initiative, which aims to make employers become more positive about mental health in the workplace.

The LCF’s The Leeds Fund relies on donations to help community organisations with grants for their projects.

Visit www.leedscf.org.uk to donate, or for more information about the projects the LCF is supporting.

Meet the projects being supported

A host of vital projects in Leeds received a funding boost from the Leeds Community Foundation this month.

One of those projects chosen is being run the Women’s Counselling and Therapy Service (WCTS) in Leeds.

The organisation is the only dedicated women’s specialist counselling service in the city.

And, after receiving an LCF grant of more than 20,000, it will now be able to launch a new project aimed at women migrants.

The project will include weekly courses, a qualified therapist for group discussions and support.

The project aims to develop a Leeds Deaf Support Network, to prevent and manage mental health crises for deaf people across the city.

It is building on the work done by the charity during its recent Deaf Health Champions project, which was funded by the Department for Health.

The project fought for equality for deaf people and campaigned for better access to health information across the North.

The LS14 Trust a community organisation set up by residents in Seacroft also received a cash boost from the LCF’s The Leeds Fund this month.

A new project is being launched by the organisation using the grant, focusing on a range of mental health issues including anxiety, depression, bipolar and post-natal depression.

The project will include a programme running three-days-a-week for 36 weeks that offers creative psychotherapy sessions for adults.

There will also be one-to-one sessions for adults, as well as dedicated sessions for parents and children in therapy classes.

The latest project comes after an initial pilot for the service for adults with mental health issues.

Educators for Fair Consideration, a San Franciso-based nonprofit organization working to empower undocumented young people, has awarded a $35,000 matching grant to U-Lead Athens, a local nonprofit that helps Athens-area students with varying immigration statuses prepare for, apply to, and pay for college.

The E4FC grant augments the $35,000 raised locally through a number of individual donations, and the $9,000 raised by the high school students served by U-Lead Athens who park cars on University of Georgia football gamedays at Oconee Street United Methodist Church, according to JoBeth Allen, a University of Georgia emeritus professor and a co-director of U-Lead.

The $70,000 in local and E4FC grant funds provides scholarships to U-Lead participants who will be heading to college in fall 2017, Allen said. She speculated Thursday that the increased support from E4FC is an indication of the nonprofit group’s confidence in U-Lead Athens, in part because the initiative operates with no overhead costs.

U-Lead Athens is an all-volunteer organization where undocumented high school students and recent graduates who lived in the United States for most of their lives gather weekly at space provided by the Oconee Street United Methodist Church to work with mentors from the University of Georgia’s Undocumented Student Alliance, UGA faculty, the Clarke County School District, and elsewhere in the community.

U-Lead scholars attend the University of North Georgia, Piedmont College, Agnes Scott College, Young Harris College, North Georgia Technical College, Athens Technical College, Emory University, Berea College, Eastern Connecticut State University, the Illinois Institute of Technology and Smith College. Scholarship awards are based on a number of factors, including other assistance obtained by students to help fund their collegiate endeavors.

Under rules adopted six years ago by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, undocumented students are effectively barred from attending the University of Georgia and other top-tier public universities in the state. According to Allen, it can be particularly expensive for undocumented students to attend the state schools where they can be admitted, because they have to pay out-of-state tuition rates that are about four times higher than in-state rates.

Tatiana Pinto, one of the students who received help from U-Lead Athens, and who was awarded a full scholarship to Atlanta’s Agnes Scott College through the separate Golden Door Scholars program, has high praise for U-Lead Athens.

“U-Lead has been more than just a place to help me academically, it’s been a second home,” Pinto, a Cedar Shoals High School graduate, said in a news release announcing the latest E4FC matching grant.

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