Navigation Grant to Legal Aid Service of Collier County supports project assisting over 400 at-risk children
Legal Aid Service of Collier County recently received a $10,000 grant from the Collier Community Foundation’s Disaster Assistance Fund to support its Legal Aid for Collier Kids Project, which is primarily funded annually by grants from the Naples Children & Education Foundation, founders of the Naples Winter Wine Festival.
The grant funds were applied toward the costs of sustaining the project operated by four attorneys and four paralegals and is dedicated to meeting the legal needs of at-risk children. Over the 12-month grant term, the Legal Aid for Collier Kids Project assisted over 400 children and caregivers in need.
“This generous grant from the Collier Community Foundation provided much needed support and was a vital supplement to the annual grant funding from the Naples Education & Children’s Foundation that sustains our Legal Aid for Collier Kids Project,” Carol O’Callaghan, deputy executive director of LASCC, said. “Thanks to these amazing donors, we were able to provide life changing free legal services to the most vulnerable children in our community.”
