All Kentuckians are mandated reporters. If you believe a child is being abused or neglected, call the Child Protection Hotline.
For contact information in other states, please visit our Report It page.
Child help: National Abuse Hotline:
1-800-4-CHILD
or 1-800-422-4453
Survive, Heal, THRIVE! Everyone experiences traumatic and stressful events in their lives and those experiences can stick with us and make it hard to enjoy life or move ahead. But, with love, support, and time, we can survive, heal, and THRIVE. The newest Face It resource, THRIVE, offers information for parents and...
When it comes to parenting, everyone has good days and bad days. However, there are certain strategies you can follow to optimize your energy and abilities. Here’s some important advice to help you to be the best mom or dad you can be. Recognize Your Rut It’s easy to get stuck...
Celebrating National Foster Care Month: A Support System for Families Strengthening families and focusing on their well-being is the key to building strong communities. Whether it’s promoting a collaborative relationship between birth parents and foster caregivers or providing parents with the right combination of supportive services to enable reunification, keeping...
Blog by: Courtney Rasche, Kentucky Youth Advocates Summer is almost here! But first, we have to get through the end of the school year stressors. Having a conversation with our children after every school day is a great way to not only find out what they are learning and working on,...
This post originally appeared as a blog on the Center for Women and Families. By Cortney Downs Lauren doesn’t remember when the abuse and neglect started, but it makes up some of her earliest memories. As a baby, she was once left in her crib all day without being fed or changed....
This post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Courier Journal and Kentucky Today on April 19, 2019. By Keith Inman Everyone likes to be ranked number one – especially here in Kentucky with our prized horses, bourbon, and basketball. But this? This is not a number one ranking Kentuckians should be proud...
Keeping kids safe is an adult responsibility. Child Abuse Prevention Month serves as a reminder each year that we can all be the face that ends child abuse and neglect, both in our community and across Kentucky. In April, follow along on social media as Face It posts a daily...
By Courtney Rasche We are officially in an age where kids born after 2007 will never have known a world without internet and iPhones in their hands. Parents are trying to navigate how to parent around these devices, internet safety, keeping up to date on new apps and finding the balance...
Face It® Friday: You Can't Pour From An Empty Cup! Being a parent, caregiver or helping professional is not easy—it can feel as though we're constantly focused on the children. But are you taking the time to focus on yourself, too? We often dismiss even the most basic of tasks for ourselves. Self-care includes...
Face It® Friday: Teens and Healthy Dating Relationships Talking to our teens about dating and relationships can be tough, or even awkward (for both!) at times, but it is critical to ensuring youth have appropriate expectations of what is healthy and what is not when it comes to dating and relationships. Healthy...