{"id":165962,"date":"2025-09-18T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165962\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:36:16","slug":"county-durham-gets-500k-funding-to-improve-mental-health-and-wellbeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/165962\/","title":{"rendered":"County Durham gets \u00a3500k funding to improve mental health and wellbeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that many residents are finding things tough right now, and it&#8217;s affecting both their mental and physical health,&#8221; the Reform UK councillor said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In our recent Wellbeing Survey, only half of adults living in the most disadvantaged areas of County Durham said they had good mental health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brown added local grassroots groups were key to providing support, as &#8220;they often connect with people who might not feel comfortable using other services&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This fund will help these groups offer a wider range of activities and reach more residents across the county, without them having to reapply for financial help each year,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We know that many residents are finding things tough right now, and it&#8217;s affecting both their mental and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-165962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}