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All Kentuckians are mandated reporters. If you believe a child is being abused or neglected, call the Child Protection Hotline.

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Child help: National Abuse Hotline:
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Playing It Safe Tips for safe sleepovers and time with friends Sending your child off on their first sleepover or hosting your teen's friends can come with lots of questions -- what are the planned activities? Who else will be home? How can I reach the other parents? What if there's an...

MEDIA CONTACT: Lindsay Wehr lwehr@kosair.org 502-637-7696 *103 Partners in the Face It Movement Release New Resource on Safe Sleepovers and Time with Friends LOUISVILLE, KY – With school out for the summer and children and teens spending more time hosting sleepovers and visiting friends’ houses, partners in the Kosair Charities® Face It® Movement have released a...

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...

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...

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...