As we enter the last days of April, Child Abuse Prevention Month, we’ve seen some great events and great support surrounding Family & Children’s Place and other efforts to protect children from violence, abuse and neglect. We’ve seen lawmakers increase protections, from mandating that educators in Kentucky be trained to recognize and report child abuse to affording dating couple the same protections as married couples from domestic violence. These are important and needed improvements. We’ve seen a Rally on the River, where Family & Children’s Place, the Kosair Charities’ Face It Movement, Kentucky Youth Advocates and others came together to […]

On Tuesday, April 21, a number of children and their families graduated the Family & Children’s Place HANDS program. The program can last two years and matched first-time parents with an agency associate who shared tools and techniques the family could use before and after their child’s birth to help manage stress and demands, and activities and resources to ensure the baby’s healthy and happy development. The event celebrated the child and family’s success and provided the opportunity for a family photo and presentation of a diploma – a true graduation. Families were asked to share their thoughts and feelings […]

Whether you hook, slice, fade or are a hole in one ace, you’re going to want to find a foursome and register for the Family & Children’s Place 12th annual Golf Scramble. Cost for the Friday, June 12 scramble, at Persimmon Ridge Golf Club, is just $840 per foursome (with no sponsorship) or $210 for an individual. The fee covers 18 holes of golf, a golf cart and lunch, along with prizes, giveaways and entertainment. But it also helps Family & Children’s Place prevent and stop child violence, abuse and neglect, and provide critical healing therapies. Tee time is 1:30 […]

Congratulations to Micah Jorrisch, Family & Children’s Place Director of New Business Development and Corporate/Community Partnerships, for his selection as Director of Professional Development for the Young Professionals Association of Louisville. The association helps connect, engage and develop metro Louisville’s young professionals through community, professional and social opportunities. http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2015/04/16/ypal-names-new-officers-board-of-directors.html  

Thanks to everyone who attended Thursday morning’s Family & Children’s Place Building Brighter Futures Breakfast at The Seelbach in downtown Louisville. And thanks for your commitment to help children and families heal from the trauma of violence, abuse and neglect. More than 300 guests enjoyed a hot breakfast and learned about Family & Children’s Place and progress being made in the battle to end child abuse from Pam Darnall, agency president and CEO. Darnall also shared information about April, Child Abuse Prevention Month, and events the agency has or will put on, including the April 1 Rally to End Child […]

Congress has passed the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, and President Barack Obama has pledged his signature, ensuring home visits will continue in nearly 800 at-risk communities around the country. Approval shows that investment in young children continues to be a bipartisan issue in both the House and the Senate, and babies and their families are the big winners! The Family & Children’s Place HANDS program – Health Access Nurturing Development Services – doesn’t depend on the federal funding approved this week (we are funded by state Medicaid and tobacco settlement dollars), but the decision does […]