Grant will provide services to trauma-affected children, families in Southern Indiana The Hazel & Walter T. Bales Foundation Inc., awarded a $15,000 grant to Family & Children’s Place on June 12, to support its work to prevent and stop child violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect in Southern Indiana and to provide compassionate and healing care to children and families that have been hurt. “Because of the generous support we received previously from the Hazel and Walter T. Bales Foundation, Family & Children’s Place was able to help 533 children in Clark and Floyd counties in 2017,” said Pam Darnall president […]

Ashley Friedrich, from our Family & School Services team, shares that she has a summer CLASP student from the Meyzeek Middle School program who is a very picky eater. “He can’t get past the barriers to trying new foods,” she says. But during a parent/student orientation, she and Bobby Cortes encouraged him to try a bite of something new each day. So far, he’s tried so many new foods, including, grilled cheese, spaghetti, breakfast casserole, quesadillas, pizza and sandwiches, and in this photo, French toast and sausages. “He’s really enjoyed about 75 percent of the foods he tried,” said Ashley, […]

HANDS families – 31 of them, comprising 107 people – gathered on a recent Friday to picnic with a purpose: to celebrate the awesome achievements the families and babies that participate in the voluntary in-home visitation program are making. This year’s summer picnic, sponsored by Epic Insurance, which also sent several volunteers to help staff, including Elizabeth Pulliam, Nicholle Lally, Wanda Burba, and Rhonda Sherman, was held at George Rogers Clark Park, and though it rained through much of the event, the kids and families still appeared to have a wonderful time. Kids were treated to carnival games such as […]

Many thanks to the Kentucky Bar Foundation for its generous grant supporting our Kosair Charities Child Advocacy Center.  Here, President and CEO Pam Darnall accepts the check from KBF Past President J. David Porter.

New York Life Foundation Awards $15,000 Grant to Family & Children’s Place Afterschool Program in Louisville to Support Middle School Students’ Transition to 9th Grade  Award is One of 26 New Aim High Grants Nationally, Totaling $1.35 Million The New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance today announced a $15,000 grant award to Family & Children’s Place in Louisville for its Collaborative Learning After School Program. In 2018, a total of $1.35 million in grants will be awarded to a total of 34 youth development organizations across the country to support middle school youth during the out-of-school time (OST) […]

Our statement on the current administration’s policy separating children and families: As an agency committed to protecting the physical and mental health of children, and preventing and treating trauma from abuse that some children suffer every day, Family & Children’s Place forcefully condemns the policy and practice of separating children from their parents at our nation’s borders. There is overwhelming evidence that separating children from their parents has significant and lasting consequences on the safety, health, development, and well-being of children. Separating children from their parents puts the children at greater risk of future significant physical, emotional, and mental illness. […]