Each month, Jefferson County Public Schools’ offers “Ask a Nurse,” an online video series that tackles timely health-related topics and offers students tips on how to be and stay healthy. The video for August is on suicide prevention. The issue is of critical importance, since suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth ages 12-18. More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined. The video is to help create awareness in the community about the JCPS suicide prevention program.  Please take a […]

The annual HANDS – Healthy Access Nurturing Development Services – picnic was another rousing success! The picnic, at George Rogers Clark Park off Poplar Level Road, was Friday, July 7, and 140 clients attended, representing 31 families. The chosen theme for the picnic was a carnival, so the event featured games for the kids such as the cake walk, duck pond, bean bag toss, can toss, Plinko, and face painting. The Bubble Bug, a car that blows bubbles, was there, too, to provide lots of bubbles and water play, welcome due to the high heat of the sunny day. Family […]

Family & Children’s Place was proud to partner in a local independent film project that promised to pull no punches. We are prouder still by the remarkable receptions the film – produced in Louisville’s Portland Community with local producers, writers, crew members, and musicians – is receiving after its debut at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film is “Beauty Mark,” and its subject is child abuse. We also are looking forward to its local debut later this month in the Louisville Film Society’s Flyover Film Festival. The showing, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 28, will be at the Bomhard Theater […]

Did you know there is no safe amount of time to leave a child – any child – in a car alone, but especially during summer when a warm day turns a car or van quickly into an oven hot enough to kill a child? At 10 a.m. today, Thursday, July 13, the temperature in Louisville was 85 degrees. With a dew point of 75, the heat index was an uncomfortable 93 degrees. In that situation, the temperature inside a car parked in direct sunlight can quickly climb to between 130 and 172 degrees, according to the Centers for Disease […]

Meyzeek Middle School students are forgoing the “lazy, hazy days of summer” this week, opting instead to help build a better community through service learning by volunteering in the Smoketown, downtown and Germantown communities. The students, who participate in the Collaborative After School Learning Program of Family & Children’s Place, are working with agency Ambassadors – young professionals who help the agency through speaking and networking opportunities. On Tuesday, students and ambassadors, led by Ambassador Jessica Matlock, of First Savings Bank, served cookies to and visited with homeless families at St. Vincent de Paul’s lunch program, and cleaned up afterward. […]

Congratulations to the honoree companies in this year’s Louisville Business First Partners in Philanthropy recognition, but we offer very special Congratulations – and thanks – to the companies large and small that support Family & Children’s Place and help give children the chance for happy, healthy and safe futures. Thank you DMLO CPAs, Horseshoe Southern Indiana, Brown-Forman Corporation, Strothman and Company, Delta Dental of Kentucky, Fifth Third Bank, Humana, and UPS.All appreciated and among our wonderful partners in philanthropy. http://bit.ly/2tQLzoV