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03 Sep Youth-Serving Agencies: How are You Acting as the Face that Ends Child Abuse?

The Face It® Movement, created by Kosair Charities, knows that child abuse is a community-wide issue and ending it will take community-wide support. Face It has been working with several community sectors since its launch in April 2013. Each sector – educators, medical professionals, youth, child care providers, and youth-serving...

09 May Face It® Releases Year 1 Newsletter

09 Apr Louisville Groups Aim to End Child Abuse

THE COURIER JOURNAL | MARK BOXLEY | APRIL 9, 2014 More than 100 people stood at the base of the Big Four Bridge on Tuesday morning next to a field of spinning pinwheels, each representing one of Louisville's victims of child abuse. The group came together to support the eradication of child...

13 Mar Community Challenge: We Are the Answer to Ending Child Abuse

This post originally appeared as an op-ed in the Courier Journal on Monday, March 9, 2014. You can view it online, here. COURIER JOURNAL | RANDY COE, GERARD RABALAIS, M.D., MELISSA CURRIE, M.D. | MARCH 9, 2014 What is the cure for keeping children from dying from abuse and neglect? The answer...

04 Mar Thank you for passing House Bill 157!

Statement by Randy Coe, president, Kosair Charities on HB 157 passing the Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations Committee I, along with all of the face it® partners, applaud Chairman Shickel and the members of the Senate Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations committee for passing HB 157 today. We are now...

25 Feb National Panel Charged with Eliminating Child Abuse Deaths

NPR | RENEE MONTAGNE AND PAM FESSLER | FEBRUARY 25, 2014 A federal commission to prevent children's deaths from abuse and neglect held its first meeting on Monday. Figuring out the extent of the problem is just one challenge facing the new commission. About 1700 children die in the U.S. each year...

03 Feb Family and Children’s Place HANDS Goes Mobile

Contact: Lynn Allen 502.893.3900 x261 lallen@famchildplace.org Louisville, Ky. (January 31, 2014) – Family and Children’s Place (F&CP) received a $23,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Louisville to bring mobile technology to the agency’s HANDS program. HANDS provides voluntary visitation for first-time and expectant parents that begins during pregnancy or shortly after the child’s birth....