Answer the Call Kentucky We are a new effort for:   Creating a electronic forum for a collaborating network of statewide service partners serving today's foster & adoptive parents Providing a rapid and dynamic communication channel for vital information of interest to those serving Kentucky's children.  Identifying and locating existing national, state, and local community services available to support today's family, caregiver, and children's issues for Kentucky families.

Join the Conversation on Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare in Kentucky.

African-American children not only come into foster care at higher rates in Kentucky, but they have longer stays and experience other differing outcomes. 

Thanks to the efforts of the Annie E. Casey foundation, the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services and a host of valuable community partners, Jefferson County is leading the way in this vital area. 

Visit their excellant website at http://www.jointheconversation.net/

Kentucky's Blue Ribbon Panel on Adoption

Keep up with what legislators, judges, advocates, social workers, academics, and community leaders are doing on the Blue Ribbon Panel at http://chfs.ky.gov/brpa/.    Organized in the summer of 2006 to analyze factors involved in variable handling of the Termination of Parental Rights and to recommend policy, practice, and legal improvements, the panel continues to post its agenda and minutes at this site.   Meetings are open to the public. 

Lonnie King Releases New Video for Foster and Adoptive Home Recruitment

What About Me? is the latest work by Lonnie and the Lake Cumberland Network Team to use music and visual images to convey not only the need for more loving homes, but the spirit of the families who do answer that call.  

You can see the video at Lonnie's site: http://www.lonnieking57.homestead.com/videos.html