Kentucky Youth Advocates is looking for photos of Kentucky kids to include in the 2014 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 carrying them in your wallet, on Instagram and on Facebook. Here’s a great chance to promote those great kids through Kentucky Youth Advocates’ materials. We need your photos by May 31 so please start sending them in. In order to use the photos, we [...]

This post originally appeared as an Op-Ed in The Courier Journal. You can view it online here.  Spring in Kentucky is animated by certain rituals. As the first Saturday in May approaches each year, we become experts on horses. Students begin to wonder about final report card grades. And the governor and General Assembly are graded as well. I recently was on KET's "Kentucky Tonight" and heard my fellow panelists give tough grades to the [...]

Yesterday, April 9, was KY Gives Day. It was a day when people stepped up to invest in non-profits all across the Commonwealth, and we thank everyone who gave to Kentucky Youth Advocates (KYA) yesterday. If you missed KY Gives Day, you can still make a donation to KYA today or any day at https://kyyouth.org/donate/. Children often don’t have a voice in decisions made by our policymakers, and your support will help make sure Kentucky Youth Advocates can continue [...]

By: Rebecca Ghent, 2013-2014 KYA Intern Every child in this state should have a chance to succeed.  A lot of people are committed to making that idea a reality.  As a social work student, I have had the opportunity to see the varied efforts of many people hard at work.  I have seen it in people working in schools, in lawyers working with refugees and immigrants, and now at Kentucky Youth Advocates.  I have met [...]

On April 9, 2014, our community will come together for KY Gives Day, and we need YOU to join us. It's 24 hours of unprecedented nonprofit giving-and it's your chance to make a real difference, right here in our community. Children often don't have a voice in decisions made by our policymakers, and your support will help make sure Kentucky Youth Advocates can continue to be THE independent voice for Kentucky kids. This is YOUR chance to make a real difference for [...]

We are currently in the homestretch of this year’s legislative session, and as Kentuckians that prioritize speaking up for our most vulnerable citizens, we already have some reasons to celebrate as well as reasons to remain hopeful that the session will result in important wins for kids. An important win for some of our youngest Kentuckians came in the form of the passage of House Bill 157. This bill requires training on the recognition and [...]