{"id":14608,"date":"2020-09-14T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:07:03","slug":"orange-county-non-profit-safety-grants-make-positive-impacts-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/2020\/09\/orange-county-non-profit-safety-grants-make-positive-impacts-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Non-Profit Safety Grants Make Positive Impacts in Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly acquired Non-Profit Safety Grants will make a positive impact on Orange County. The grants, which will be distributed throughout the community by Orange County&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocfl.net\/tabid\/104\/default.aspx#.X1pKVnlKg2w\">Neighborhood Services Division<\/a>, range from $1,000 to $10,000, and will assist local non-profit organizations with the delivery of programs and services that seek to reduce crime and enhance public safety in the region.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of its positive impact, just look at one of this year&#8217;s awardees, <a href=\"https:\/\/lighthousecfl.org\/\">Lighthouse Central Florida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 43 years, Lighthouse Central Florida has been the only provider of vision rehabilitation services in the tri-county area (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangecountyfl.net\/\">Orange<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osceola.org\/\">Osceola<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seminolecountyfl.gov\/\">Seminole<\/a> Counties) for people of all ages. Although their clients are blind and vision impaired, they are important, contributing members of society, as well as beacons of strength to the community.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that over 45,000 Central Floridians live with vision difficulty. Orange County accounts for 58 percent of people in Central Florida who are living with blindness and with vision impairments (<em>Prevalence of Visual Impairment in Florida by County<\/em>, Florida Agencies Serving the Blind, Oct. 2018).<\/p>\n<p>Orange County grant\u00a0funds have contributed to Lighthouse Central Florida&#8217;s implementation of the 1 Touch Project\u00a0<sup>TM<\/sup>, the first comprehensive self-defense program designed specifically for people who are blind and vision impaired\u00a0and those people legally viewed as vulnerable members of society.<\/p>\n<p>The program teaches hands-on self-defense techniques for dealing with assaults, aggressive behavior, and bullying. Orange County Government&#8217;s Neighborhood Services Non-Profit Safety Grant will help improve the safety and personal security of County residents from all walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Orange County Government&#8217;s Neighborhood Services Division, visit their webpage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfl.net\/Neighborhoods\">www.ocfl.net\/Neighborhoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo cutline: Lighthouse Central Florida&#8217;s 1 Touch Project <sup>TM<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly acquired Non-Profit Safety Grants will make a positive impact on Orange County. The grants, which will be distributed throughout the community by Orange County&#8217;s Neighborhood Services Division, range from $1,000 to $10,000, and will assist local non-profit organizations with the delivery of programs and services that seek to reduce crime and enhance public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29,542],"class_list":["post-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-services","tag-featured-stories","tag-neighborhood-preservation-and-revitalization"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orange County Non-Profit Safety Grants Make Positive Impacts in Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ocfl.net\/2020\/09\/orange-county-non-profit-safety-grants-make-positive-impacts-in-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orange County Non-Profit Safety Grants Make Positive Impacts in Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The newly acquired Non-Profit Safety Grants will make a positive impact on Orange County. 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