A local nonprofit aimed at helping young people get on track for adulthood is celebrating more than 50 years of serving the Jacksonville community. Many of the students in the program credit AMI Kids with saving their lives.

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The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office helped provide two new basketball hoops for students at AMIkids Gainesville.

The $3.1 million investment is part of an ongoing commitment by the Florida Blue Foundation to address mental well-being across the state. AMIkids’ Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) initiative provides preventative youth mental health education throughout Florida.

Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation (DCWAF), is pleased to announce it has donated $3.4 million to 16 children’s charities in Northwest Florida following another successful year of fundraising.

Since 1973, AMIkids Jacksonville (formerly the Jacksonville Marine Institute) has changed the lives of more than 6,000 at-risk teenagers.

At-risk children around Tampa Bay receive a firsthand lesson in marine life, which is an effort to program to expose troubled kids to nature.

Jerome “JJ” Ross Jr., 18, had been kicked out of multiple schools and ended up in an alternative school, Camelot Academy of Escambia County, but still he wanted a second chance to “be somebody.”