Past Grants

Friendship Bench: Pilot and Expansion

Award Amount $136,200

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Year(s) 2025
Duration 2025

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Counties Served Ottawa

To incorporate behavioral health support into everyday life without bureaucracy, this project designates 10 public benches as places a person can sit to talk with a trained community listener. The project will provide 2,000 bench visits particularly for groups experiencing heightened stress like Latinos and Laotians where volunteers listen, screen, and refer individuals requiring more long-term support to local private and public mental health agencies.

ID: 2507-157537

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