Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino is proud to announce that 4KIDS Treasure Coast has been selected as a 2026 Hard Rock Heals Foundation grant recipient. The organization will receive a $5,000 grant to support the mission of providing hope to kids in crisis.

Nominated by the team at Seminole Brighton Bay, 4KIDS is one of 51 global nonprofit organizations to receive a grant as part of Hard Rock’s ongoing commitment to strengthening the communities it serves. The grant is awarded this year by the Hard Rock Heals Foundation, with $255,000 total supporting local nonprofit organizations around the world.

“We nominated 4KIDS  because of its commitment to helping children find safe, loving homes and supporting families in crisis throughout our region, including Okeechobee County,” said Marty Johns, General Manager at Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino. “We’re honored to support their work and proud to partner with organizations that bring Hard Rock’s mottos, ‘Love All – Serve All’ and ‘Take Time to Be Kind,’ to life in our community.”

Based in Stuart, 4KIDS Treasure Coast is a faith-based nonprofit serving children and families in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee counties. Since 2014, the organization has worked to provide safe, loving foster homes, keep siblings together and offer prevention and therapy services that help children and families find stability and healing.

The grant will cover 25 hours of EPIC therapy that cannot be billed for children affected by trauma in foster care or adoptive homes. After 26 weeks of therapy, the program aims for participants to improve their assessment scores by at least three points compared with their scores before therapy. The program also aims for 95% of participants to show symptom improvement or progress toward treatment goals, as documented in their discharge plans.

To celebrate the grant, Marty Johns, General Manager, and Aaron Mollura, Director of Marketing and Promotions at Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino, presented a $5,000 check to Kenya Reinhardt, Community Relations Coordinator at 4KIDS Treasure Coast, on Oct. 2.

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About Hard Rock Heals Foundation®

The Hard Rock Heals Foundation® is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization that oversees philanthropic activities for Hard Rock International. Guided by the belief that music is a universal force for good, the Foundation funds health, wellness, disaster relief and community-based programs that promote healing through music and kindness. Since launching its grant program in 2016, Hard Rock Heals Foundation has supported hundreds of local organizations making a lasting impact. For more information, visit the Hard Rock Heals Foundation website.

About Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino

The new resort, which replaced Seminole Casino Brighton (first opened in 1980), includes a casino with a total of nearly 38,000 square feet, including space for a total of 640 slot machines and 18 tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other house-banked card games, along with high-stakes bingo action. Included in the totals are a smoke-free gaming space with 104 slot machines and a high-limit gaming area with 42 slot machines and four table games. Dining options include EE-TO-LEET-KE GRILL with 126 seats, a steak house (Josiah Steakhouse) with 62 seats and a fast-service and carry-out cafe offering a combination of items from a coffee bar (Constant Grind) and pizza kitchen (Slice). The resort also boasts an indoor event space with 400 seats for banquet events or bingo games, or 900 seats set up as a performance hall. In a first for any Seminole Casino, the new resort offers a ten-lane bowling alley (Brighton Bay Bowling) of 7,044 square feet. The complex includes the first hotel to be built on the Brighton Seminole Reservation, featuring 100 guest rooms on four stories, totaling 72,000 square feet. Guest rooms include a mixture of rooms with either one king bed or two queen beds, plus three suites and a fitness center. The resort’s name salutes popular sportfishing sites of nearby Lake Okeechobee, where Fisheating Bay is a little more than two miles from the resort. Fisheating Bay and Fisheating Creek get their name from the Seminole name recorded on a military map of 1839, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, translated as “the river where fish are eaten.”