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What Cuts to Child Safety Programs Could Mean for Kentucky Families

This is part of Kentucky Youth Advocates’ series on the federal landscape and the impacts on Kentucky children and families.  As Congress moves forward with this year’s federal budget, some long-standing child safety programs are facing major reductions or being eliminated altogether. While some of these cuts are still being debated in Congress, others have already gone into effect through recent executive decisions. These shifts affect the programs that help keep kids safe and supported [...]

By |2025-06-05T10:15:23-04:00June 5th, 2025|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Health|
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Reunification Is Possible: The Power of Someone Walking With You

By Kayla Harmon, a member of KY SEAT Reunification—the process of bringing a family back together after separation—can feel like an uphill battle. It’s overwhelming, emotional, and filled with obstacles that sometimes seem too heavy to bear. But here’s the truth: you can succeed. And one of the greatest factors in that success is having someone walk beside you—someone who believes in you even when you’re struggling to believe in yourself. You Weren’t Meant to [...]

By |2025-06-25T12:51:07-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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Connection to Support: How Regional Prevention Collaboratives are Prioritizing Family Needs

When it comes to preventing child abuse and keeping families from unnecessarily engaging with the child welfare system, economic and concrete supports are essential. In Kentucky, many of the Thriving Families, Safer Children Kentucky Regional Prevention Collaborative teams noted that knowledge of and access to supports and resources for families is a need within their community, including transportation, child care, housing, and access to service providers. The need for these supports and resources were highlighted [...]

By |2025-05-29T15:20:59-04:00May 29th, 2025|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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Understanding TANF Reform and Its Impact on Kentucky Families

This is part of Kentucky Youth Advocates’ series on the federal landscape and the impacts on Kentucky children and families.  As a part of the federal government’s overhaul of the country's long standing safety net programs, recent updates and conversations about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program give insight into the potential changes ahead. This spring, a pilot project that aimed to shift TANF away from strict work requirements and toward measuring success [...]

By |2025-05-29T13:04:45-04:00May 29th, 2025|Blog, Economic Security|
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Together We Bloom Summit Recap

Earlier this month, Bloom Kentucky convened for the first-ever Together We Bloom Summit that included an incredible lineup of speakers: Dr. Robert Sege, Dr. Wendy Ellis, Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers with Pantsuit Politics Podcast, and Criscillia Benford and Anna Marie Trester with Frameworks Institute. We also welcomed over 20+ local child and family-serving organizations as exhibitors from across the Commonwealth focused on mitigating Adverse Childhood Experiences and cultivating Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) [...]

By |2025-12-17T09:31:59-05:00May 22nd, 2025|Blog, Bloom Kentucky|
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What Federal Changes in SNAP Means for Kentucky Kids and Families

This is part of Kentucky Youth Advocates’ series on the federal landscape and the impacts on Kentucky children and families.  It’s been a busy month in Washington as Congress works to finalize the federal budget for the next 10 years. Earlier this week, the U.S House Budget Committee narrowly advanced a budget reconciliation measure that will cut an estimated $300 million from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – the largest proposed reduction in program history.  The proposal [...]

By |2025-05-22T15:54:44-04:00May 22nd, 2025|Blog, Economic Security|
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The Key to Success in Foster Care: Inclusion and Communication

By Kayla Harmon, a member of KY SEAT Having a child in foster care is one of the most heart-wrenching and complex experiences a biological parent can go through. It’s not just a separation from your child; it’s a journey full of emotional ups and downs, personal growth, and—most importantly—learning to trust in a system that will hopefully bring your family back together.  But one thing is certain: the key to success in this process [...]

By |2025-05-22T14:56:58-04:00May 21st, 2025|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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Racial Disparities in Foster Care: A Continuing Crisis

This blog was originally published on True Up. By: Tatum Abel, Peer Engagement Coordinator The foster care system is designed to protect children in vulnerable situations, offering them a haven when their biological families cannot safely provide care. However, data compiled by Kentucky Youth Advocates persistently shows that Black children are being removed from their homes more than their white peers once involved with the child welfare system.  In 2021, more than 390,000 youth across the country [...]

By |2025-05-15T15:30:55-04:00May 15th, 2025|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Race Equity|
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The Impact of Proposed Medicaid Changes on Kentucky Families

This is part of Kentucky Youth Advocates’ series on the federal landscape and the impacts on Kentucky children and families.  As we near warmer summer days and the end of another school year in the Commonwealth, our federal delegates are busy in Washington DC narrowing in on a budget reconciliation package. In other words - Congress is nearing the end of its process to develop a federal budget for the next year and outline spending [...]

By |2025-05-15T13:37:57-04:00May 15th, 2025|Blog, Economic Security, Health, Medicaid|
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What Gets Measured Gets Changed: Leveraging Opioid Data Dashboard Updates

The saying, “what gets measured gets changed,” has long been a cornerstone of the Kentucky KIDS COUNT project, which has reported county-level data on critical measures of child well-being for more than 35 years. As Kentucky faces an unprecedented opportunity to address the opioid epidemic through Opioid Settlement funds, we can prevent future generations from suffering the impacts.  Kentucky Youth Advocates released new data this month on the Opioid Data Dashboard on Children and Families [...]

By |2025-05-14T14:47:54-04:00May 14th, 2025|Blog, Bloom Kentucky, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Justice, Race Equity|
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