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Congress, Stand Up for Kids and Put Families First

Kids win when elected leaders stand up for them and their families. That’s just what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senator Rand Paul have been doing for Kentucky kids in Washington, DC. Thanks to Majority Leader McConnell’s leadership and Senator Paul’s support for the Protecting Our Infants Act of 2015, our nation will be better able to care for infants born exposed to substances. We also appreciate Senator McConnell’s work in partnership with First [...]

By |2016-09-27T09:47:36-04:00September 27th, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Health|
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Vote for Kids!

Your vote is your voice! In celebration of National Voter Registration Day, we encourage all Kentuckians of voting age to register. The November 8th ballot will include presidential candidates, as well as U.S. representatives and senators, Kentucky state representatives and senators, and U.S., state, and local judge seats. Children count on adults to speak up on their behalf. In fact, we've put together 5 reasons why Kentucky kids are depending on you to show up at your polling place [...]

By |2016-09-26T17:09:02-04:00September 26th, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Youth Justice|
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Restraints at Schools Present Risks to Students and Staff

This post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Courier-Journal on September 20, 2016. Read it online here. Children in Kentucky’s public schools spend a minimum of 170 days a year in the classroom. For some students, one or more of their days could find them in a situation where behaviors, classified as beyond control, lead to a staff member in their school employing a physical restraint or utilizing a seclusion room. This reality is especially true for [...]

By |2016-09-20T16:02:25-04:00September 20th, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Education|
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The Ripple Effect and Child Poverty

You remember, don’t you? You’re that twelve-year old kid on a hot summer day. You and your friends are exploring that lake or pond or stream. And you pick up a handful of jagged rocks and toss them into the water. Almost magically it happens. That rock hits the surface, plunges in and then in its aftermath, those small waves emanate from the center and seemingly reach out forever. The ripple effect. Physicists have taken [...]

By |2016-09-20T10:26:16-04:00September 20th, 2016|Blog, Economic Security|
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12,000 More Reasons to Protect Gains in Health Coverage

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released new health insurance data, revealing good news for Kentuckians. The data shows an increase in health insurance coverage rates for people of all ages in Kentucky from 85.7 percent in 2013 to 94.0 percent in 2015. Kentucky’s overall coverage rate is now tied with two other states at 10th in the nation. The one-year estimates from the American Community Survey revealed that 95.8 percent of Kentucky children under age [...]

By |2016-09-13T13:28:59-04:00September 13th, 2016|Blog, Health, Medicaid|
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Do Something Grand: Grandparents Day 2016

In September, the nation celebrates grandparents. Grandparents can play several roles in a child’s life, including role model, friend, and caregiver. They do extraordinary things like providing child care as respite for parents and making children feel special in order to support their families. And many grandparents across Kentucky and the nation are doing something grand everyday by stepping up to help raise their grandchildren when the child’s parents are unable. In Kentucky, an estimated [...]

By |2016-09-12T14:22:07-04:00September 12th, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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Should My Baby Be Doing That? (And More Developmental Questions from a New Parent)

Unbelievably, I have now been a parent for more than eight months. I have spent 2/3 of a year raising another human being and have mostly enjoyed the wild, hilarious, unexpected ride that parenting has been. I have never had to learn so much, so fast. How much should Nash be sleeping? I don’t know! Should he be talking more? I’m not sure! Will he ever stop putting everything in his mouth? Hopefully! I know [...]

By |2016-09-07T17:01:37-04:00September 7th, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Health|
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Special Report: Covering More Parents through Medicaid Expansion Helps Kentucky Kids

All children, especially those living in low-income and vulnerable families, need access to affordable health care. Today, we released a special report, Medicaid Expansion in Kentucky: Benefits to Kids and Families, which examines the numerous family and child health benefits that result from parents having affordable health coverage. The new report features research that shows parent health impacts child health. More specifically, when parents have health coverage, their children are more likely to be insured, too. [...]

By |2016-09-07T07:38:04-04:00September 7th, 2016|Blog, Health, Medicaid|
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Improvements to the Child Care Assistance Program Go into Effect Today

Good news! Several family-friendly improvements that will increase access to child care go into effect September 1, 2016. 1. More families are now eligible for child care assistance. Thanks to Governor Bevin and the Kentucky General Assembly, income limits for child care assistance are increasing to 160 percent of the current federal poverty level, up from 150 percent of the 2011 federal poverty level. This means that a family of 4 making up to $38,880 will [...]

By |2016-09-01T09:33:51-04:00September 1st, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education|
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The First Lady’s Youth Leadership Council Kick-Off Event

“So many people don’t know how to recognize abuse that isn’t physical.” “Help kids both within and outside of ‘the system’ to learn healthy methods to cope with their abuse.” “Abolish the rumors others outside of the foster care system start that automatically assume those within the system are ‘bad kids.’  Get kids out in the community doing good things.  Show people the good.” “Work on removing the moratorium and get the financial assistance up [...]

By |2016-08-31T15:14:47-04:00August 31st, 2016|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety|
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