The holidays are a time to spend time with friends and family and to give thanks for and celebrate the many gifts we enjoy – families, material, health and spiritual. However, often accompanying these feelings of joy and gladness are increases in stress that may put children at risk. Sadly, holidays...
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 12, 2015 – Mark your calendar for the 23rd Annual Cabo Wabo Winter Coat Party on Saturday, Jan. 9 at Mellwood Arts Center, 1860 Mellwood Avenue. Doors open at 8 p.m. Admission is $15. New and gently used coats will be collected at the door for St....
Kosair Charities has helped vulnerable children for more than 90 years. We protect the health and well-being of children in Kentucky and Southern Indiana by providing support for clinical services, research, pediatric health care education, and child advocacy. In 2012, we decided to more actively address an issue that is sometimes tough...
Kentucky’s network of 15 child advocacy centers(CACs) is among the state’s best-kept secrets. Not because anyone intentionally seeks to hide or withhold information, but rather because of the too often unspoken nature of its work: helping child victims of sexual abuse. Last year, the state’s 15 CACs served more than 6,000 child victims...
via Kentucky Youth Advocates: Elected officials often play important roles in creating, implementing, or enforcing policies that are good for kids. In just a few weeks, Kentuckians will go to the polls to cast their votes for the state’s executive offices, one of which is the Attorney General of Kentucky. The...
In Kentucky, a large percentage of child victims of abuse and neglect have risk factors like substance abuse issues present in the home. According to the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy, heroin usage has increased to epidemic levels, and the number of babies born drug dependent continues to rise. In Kentucky, an innovative...
Kentucky’s children will have newly trained allies in the effort to erase child abuse thanks to the Kentucky General Assembly: their teachers. In March 2015, our legislature passed Senate Bill 119 which ensures that educators receive information on the prevention and recognition of all forms of abuse and neglect. Previously, educators were...
Innovative website gears up for back-to-school August 6, Louisville, Ky – Since re-launching in February, approximately 1,632 local educators and child care directors have received access to KYSharedServices.org, a website by CCA For Social Good and Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C) and sponsored by the Kosair Charities® Face It ®Movement, delivers...
Our Face It® partner, Our Lady of Peace is offering a Peace Promises Program for adolescents. You and your family deserve a better life.  One without drugs and alcohol. The Peace Promises Program is a school-based Intensive Outpatient Program and uses The Seven Challenges to provide your teen with the tools they need to make healthy,...
The effort to prevent child abuse in Louisville gets a strategic new ally June 9, 2015. Louisville, KY – The Face It® Movement is proud to announce the Office of Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell as its latest partner in the effort against child abuse and neglect. “I am thrilled to...