Pam Darnall, Family & Children’s Place president and CEO, will be the guest speaker at an upcoming Nonprofit Leaders Network event in Louisville. Darnall, who has been in leadership roles for more than 20 years, most of them in children’s services, will speak on the role of succession planning in sustainability. The Nonprofit Leaders Roundtable event is from noon to 1:30 p.m., March 11, at the American Printing House for the Blind, 1839 Frankfort Ave. Tickets are $25 and include lunch. Topics Darnall will cover include: Processes Family & Children’s Place uses to ensure successful succession for board, staff and […]

Thanks to Tanya Borrego, a consultant at Thirty-One Gifts, for showing her love for our children. Tanya and her friends got together and stuffed 106 gift baskets with treats, toys, and games for young Family & Children’s clients.  Here she is pictured with her friend, Sandy Ison, and some of the gift baskets, worth more than $3,200. A true gift of the heart!

Shoutouts to Jennifer, Elizabeth and Mona, from our Family Stabilization Program, for joining hundreds of others around the city take to the streets to speak up for the homeless. Jennifer, Elizabeth and Mona showed their commitment to ending homelessness by holding signs near our campus at 5th and Kentucky streets. Coordinated by the Coalition of the Homeless, of which Family & Children’s Place is a partner, it was a callout to community leaders to take real action, to find real solutions.

During a recent meeting of the Family & Children’s Place Board of Directors, member Fred Cowan, a former Kentucky attorney general and retired Jefferson County Circuit Court judge, shared that he had shadowed some agency staff in two program visits. He visited HANDS, which works with new parents to provide babies a happy and healthy start, and Families and Schools Together (FAST), an after-school program that works with at-risk students at Meyzeek Middle School. Following are Cowan’s comments to board members about his shadowing experiences: I’ve served on many boards and we always hear that we’re doing good work, but […]

The Coalition for the Homeless – Family & Children’s Place is a partnering agency – is taking its message to the streets on Thursday, Feb. 18. Starting at 4:30 p.m., drive time, when people begin to head to their safe, warm and comfortable homes, volunteers and coalition representatives will stand outside and hold up signs at locations around the city to increase awareness of and to encourage people to take a stand against homelessness, and to show their commitment via Facebook, Twitter and other social media. “We hope hundreds of people all over the city will want to be part […]

The just-passed season of giving inspires different people different ways. Following is a story about a family inspired to help Family & Children’s Place. It was around the holidays and my husband and I were going over our calendar for the upcoming weeks and events.  My son got upset because many of the events were adult parties and he said he would like to have a party.  He decided he wanted to have a Favorite Things party, where each friend would bring their favorite toy.  I allowed him to create the guest list and him alone.  He had about 18 […]