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Join the Kentucky Teen Institute and Advocate for Your Community’s Health

The following post comes directly from an announcement made by the Kentucky Teen Institute.  Announcing an exciting opportunity to improve teen health, youth leadership and civic engagement in your school and community! Applications and information available here. The Kentucky Teen Institute, a program of the KY YMCA Youth Association in partnership with the University of Louisville, is now accepting applications for its leadership program for high school age youth and adult advisors. Applications are due [...]

By |2013-03-13T13:02:17-04:00March 13th, 2013|Blog, Health|
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Demystifying the Health Care Law

The Affordable Care Act passed in March 2010 resulted in many changes to the health care system and there are more changes coming soon. Health care reform will impact populations, both young and old. Given that the health care reform bill was 2000 pages long, it can be confusing for people to figure out how the new law affects them. If you have questions about what the health care law means for you, join an [...]

By |2013-03-11T12:00:15-04:00March 11th, 2013|Blog, Health|
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Sequestration’s Effects on Kentucky Children and Families

Well it happened. After months of warning and endless debate on Capitol Hill, it happened. Across the board cuts, known as sequestration, went into effect over the weekend. While it is still too soon to tell exactly how the cuts will impact children, families and the agencies who serve them throughout the state – it is clear there will be an impact, possibly with devastating effects. Here are just a few examples of how Kentucky [...]

By |2013-03-07T10:04:51-05:00March 7th, 2013|Blog, Economic Security, Education, Health|
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Upcoming Kentucky Walk Bike Summit – Register Today

We want to make sure you are aware of an upcoming Kentucky Walk Bike Summit organized by Kentucky Rails to Trails Council on April 11-12, 2013 at the Capital Plaza Hotel in Frankfort, Kentucky. This is a great opportunity to learn more about how to promote pedestrian and bicycle friendly communities. Join community leaders, advocates, professionals, local and national experts to discuss how bicycling and walking can lead to safe communities, strong economies, and healthy, happy [...]

By |2013-03-05T14:27:31-05:00March 5th, 2013|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Health|
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Another Hearing for Smoke-Free Kentucky

As a student in the University Of Louisville’s School Of Public Health, we often discuss methods to reduce behaviors that are harmful to health and increase wellness at the community level. We discuss strategies such as increasing sidewalk safety to promote exercise, the placement of healthy foods in school cafeterias to promote nutrition, reducing the spread of communicable diseases to promote wellness, and yes, we discuss reducing tobacco use in Kentucky-- a lot. Tobacco use [...]

By |2013-02-28T16:07:34-05:00February 28th, 2013|Blog, Health|
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Managed Care 101: Medicaid Managed Care Status Update

Managed care is certainly a hot topic in our state. As we’ve discussed in previous posts, Kentucky has undergone major changes to its Medicaid program since 2011 by bringing in multiple private companies to run Medicaid in order to save costs. This new system is called Medicaid managed care. The transition has been anything but easy, and it looks as if the road will remain bumpy for awhile longer. The House Budget Review Subcommittee on [...]

By |2013-02-21T11:52:13-05:00February 21st, 2013|Blog, Health|
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February is Children’s Dental Health Month: Let’s Take a Stand Against Poor Oral Health

Guest Post by Dr. Jim Cecil, retired public health dentist and former State Dental Director I’ve been a dentist, an oral health and public health professional, for more than 40 years and I have to be honest, I am fed up with the state of oral health among Kentucky’s kids. When I was a student dentist at the University of Kentucky, College of Dentistry in the late 1960’s, the oral health status of children was [...]

By |2013-02-19T10:11:58-05:00February 19th, 2013|Blog, Health|
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It’s Time to Clear the Air

 Last month I asked my children to draw a poster to submit for Children's Advocacy Day on what they thought would make Kentucky a better place to be a kid. My 5-year-old child and I talked about some different ideas, but my 7-year-old son jumped right in to drawing. He had his idea and set to work. A picture emerged of a pizza restaurant with a no smoking sign on the front door. When I [...]

By |2013-02-12T13:50:30-05:00February 12th, 2013|Blog, Health|
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Children’s Advocacy Day 2013: When it comes to kids, do we have courage?

The weatherman cooperated.  Citizens from throughout the Commonwealth – hundreds of them – showed up.  The atmospherics were great – the Blue Apple Players performing a scene from “Lincoln”; a high school dance team jazzing up the scene; and, young people talking about public policy issues like human trafficking and a smoke-free environment  that count in their lives.  And the 9th Children’s Advocacy Day kicked off. The sun may have been shining bright on our [...]

By |2013-02-07T14:37:36-05:00February 7th, 2013|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Youth Justice|
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“We’ll Need to Equip Our Children for the Future”

    After a national election devoid of much discussion of poverty in America - let alone child poverty - The Children's Leadership Council worked with Spark Action to produce a video highlighting what issues children and young adults care about. The video features the voices of young people, ages 5 to 25, discussing the issues they hope the President and Congress will address in the next four years to ensure all kids can grow up [...]

By |2013-01-21T14:15:00-05:00January 21st, 2013|Blog, Child Welfare & Safety, Economic Security, Education, Health, Youth Justice|
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