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Kentucky Ranks 40th in Child Well-Being While Inaccessible, Unaffordable Child Care Deeply Impacts Families and Economy

Contact: Mara Powell mpowell@kyyouth.org 502-895-8167 X122 Kentucky Ranks 40th in Child Well-Being While Inaccessible, Unaffordable Child Care Deeply Impacts Families and Economy Data Show Child Care Challenges Caused Over 1 in 9 Kentucky Parents to Miss, Quit, or Scale Back Work, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Finds LOUISVILLE, KY — Kentucky ranks 40th in child well-being, according to the 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report of recent household data developed by the Annie [...]

By |2023-06-13T16:52:15-04:00June 14th, 2023|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, News Room, Race Equity|
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, and Fuel Stops

Greetings, from the road! The Sowing Resilience: A Bloom Kentucky Listening Tour is about halfway complete. We are making 19 stops in total across every region in Kentucky. We have powerful partners in every region that have been integral to the success of this Listening Tour series.  Much like the motto used by the fabled Dillon Panthers in the hit TV show Friday Night Lights, our Kentucky Youth Advocates team members are focused and operating [...]

By |2023-06-16T15:18:59-04:00June 13th, 2023|Blog, Bloom Kentucky, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Justice, Race Equity, Youth Justice|
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REFORM Louisville: Finding Power in My Voice

By Leondrea Johnson About a year ago, one of the staff people at YouthBuild Louisville told us he had an opportunity for a couple of us to participate in. When we met the first time with Kentucky Youth Advocates, the work they talked about pulled me in. They asked us about what changes we wanted to see in our community and talked about things that some of us had experienced - like school suspensions [...]

By |2024-08-20T16:31:56-04:00June 9th, 2023|Blog, Justice, Race Equity, Youth Justice|
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Call for Photos: Let’s See Your Cute Kids!

Kentucky Youth Advocates is looking for photos of Kentucky kids to include in the 2023 Kentucky KIDS COUNT County Data Book and other Kentucky Youth Advocates publications. We know you all proudly share pictures of your kids and grandkids by hanging them on your refrigerator and posting them on social media. Here’s your chance to promote those cute kids through Kentucky Youth Advocates’ materials. We need your photos by September 1st so please start sending them [...]

By |2023-06-13T15:33:26-04:00June 8th, 2023|Blog, Kids Count|
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How YOU Can Help Assess Kentucky’s Oral Health Landscape

June is National Oral Health Month, an optimal time to recognize the importance of oral health as a key part of overall health and well-being. Kentucky Youth advocates is joining the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition (KOHC) in celebrating throughout the month of June and highlighting opportunities to get involved. KOHC is a project of Kentucky Youth Advocates and is a statewide group of concerned citizens, oral health providers, parents, and many others working to improve [...]

By |2023-06-07T12:31:10-04:00June 7th, 2023|Blog, Health|
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Kentucky’s Application Open for Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program

The entire workforce is struggling to find the high-quality employees that it needs to stabilize business. In the past, employers could offer a competitive salary and a benefit package with health insurance and that would be enough to draw in the employees they needed.  However, that is no longer the case. Eighty-three percent of working families with children under the age of five are struggling to pay for child care. If the adults in the [...]

By |2023-06-02T14:55:06-04:00May 31st, 2023|Blog, Economic Security, Education|
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New Efforts to Boost WIC Participation in Kentucky

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women’s, Infant, and Children (WIC) provides vital support for the food and nutrition security of pregnant women, new moms, babies, and young children by providing food assistance via an EBT card, nutrition education, and breastfeeding support. While this support is critical for new parents and young children, the WIC program is out of date and does not reach everyone who is eligible. Kinship caregivers and Kentucky’s Latinx population face [...]

By |2023-05-25T21:43:43-04:00May 25th, 2023|Blog, Economic Security, Health, Race Equity|
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Health Youth Ambassadors Reflects on the Importance of Mental Health Awareness

By: Trent Cox, Health Youth Ambassador Mental Health Awareness In Youth The awareness of mental health is something that people may recognize, but oftentimes it isn't recognized enough. Mental health issues can stem from a wide range of things such as problems at school, work, or even in the home.  Mental health issues are extremely prominent in our youth population. The National Institute of Mental Health states that 49.5% of adolescents report to suffer from mental [...]

By |2023-06-09T15:27:25-04:00May 19th, 2023|Blog, Health|
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Guest Blog on Truth Telling Circle: Portraying My Testimony Through Art

By: Tia Humphrey Over the past year or so, I have worked with Kentucky Youth Advocates and other Young Adults on a grant surrounding the disproportionality African American youth face with the foster system. Not only has this given me the opportunity and platform to share my testimony of experience, but it has also allowed me to connect and relate to my peers with different and similar experiences. Not only was I able to share my testimony, [...]

By |2023-05-18T14:32:07-04:00May 18th, 2023|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Race Equity|
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Kentucky Continues Making Strides Toward Family Well-being

Though it has only been a couple months since the last Thriving Families, Safer Children (TFSC) Kentucky update, the drive continues to push noted progress. Across the Commonwealth, child, family, and community well-being remain a high priority and collaborative emphasis. Here are a few recent TFSC Kentucky happenings: TFSC Kentucky Team Thriving Families, Safer Children is first a national movement. Beneath the core guiding organizations, it is a collective statewide effort through a group of [...]

By |2023-06-13T10:12:14-04:00May 16th, 2023|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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