{"id":129795,"date":"2026-03-04T23:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:33:09","slug":"lgbt-center-of-greater-reading-receives-state-funding-boost-for-counseling-community-events-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/129795\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Center of Greater Reading receives state funding boost for counseling, community events | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker delivered a big gift to the LGBT Center of Greater Reading Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>House member Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D- Berks) presented the center with a $50,000 state grant.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will help the center continue to offer counseling and mental health support, as well we host community events.<\/p>\n<p>The center works to create a welcoming and safe environment for LGBTQ community members and allies in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A state lawmaker delivered a big gift to the LGBT Center of Greater Reading Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5630,29043,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-129795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-johanny-cepeda-freytiz","tag-lgbt-center-of-greater-reading","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}