Winter 2010
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Help for Floridians lost in health-care system
For five years, Jodi Guin sat on a busy Tallahassee, Fla., street corner selling peanuts to earn enough
money to buy the shady lot where she would later put the yellow doublewide that is now her home.
Sometimes it got so hot, she'd put her feet — shoes and all — into a bucket of ice.
"On the bank it showed it was 105 a lot of times, and we'd be sitting down there selling peanuts," Guin
remembers.
After she bought the trailer with a small inheritance, she lived there alone until one night, she went to a
dance at the American Legion Hall, and she met Bobby.
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Foundation Fact
Individual donations supporting Children's Legal Services totaled $220,763 in 2009. More than 5,000 donors contributed to one or more of the following fundraising efforts supporting children's grants: the Lawyers' Challenge for Children on The Florida Bar Annual Fee Statement; the Foundation's 2009 end-of-year campaign for Children's Legal Services; or the purchase or renewal of a Kids Deserve Justice license plate.
These donor contributions are added to regular Foundation funding for Children's Legal Services. In 2008-09, the Foundation awarded 23 grants to local legal aid programs for their Children's Legal Services projects, enabling them to represent the legal needs of children in nearly 3,000 cases.
The Foundation's priorities for its Children's Legal Services grants include representation of foster children and access to special education, as well as medical, developmental and mental health services that are required under law.