Archive for the ‘Family Resources and Youth Services’ Category

Kentucky Talking Book Library
300 Coffee Tree Road
P.O. Box 537
Frankfort, KY 40602-0818

Phone: (502) 564-8300

Toll Free: (800) 372-2968

Fax: (502) 564-577

WEB: www.kdla.ky.gov

OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Monday-Friday)

SERVICES: Circulate books and magazines in braille or recorded on cassette tape to those who cannot read printed matter due to a physical disability. Books and magazines are mailed free matter between the library and its patrons.

SERVICE AREA: Statewide

ELIGIBILITY: To qualify for service, patrons must be blind, visually disabled, physically

disabled (unable to hold a book or turn its pages) or have a learning disability such as dyslexia.

FEES: All services are free of charge.

Program C.A.R.E. (Cancer Alternatives, Resources and Education)
Hardin Memorial Hospital
Elizabethtown, KY 42702-2149
Phone: (270) 706-1493

CARE is a program especially designed to meet the psychosocial and educational needs of families facing cancer. Unlike Hospice, which meets the needs of the dying patients and families, CARE focuses on the newly diagnosed cancer patient and those receiving active treatment, but serves any patient and/or family affected by cancer. Funded by Hardin Memorial Hospital and Hospice of Central Kentucky. Located in Outpatient Oncology/Radiation Therapy basement level of Hardin Memorial Hospital.
OFFICE HOURS: 7:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Monday and Tuesday)
SERVICES: Cancer information, cancer counseling, psychosocial support. One-on-one contacts by cancer survivors. Cancer survivor groups and monthly grief resource groups.
SERVICE AREA: Hardin, LaRue, Meade, Breckinridge, Grayson, Marion, Washington, Adair, Taylor, Green, Hart, Jefferson, and Bullitt counties.
ELIGIBILITY: Any cancer patients or family members. Any person affected by the death of a special person within the last 3 years (18 years and older).
FEES: None

Breckinridge County Public Library
112 South Main
Hardinsburg, KY 40143
Phone: (270) 756-2323
Fax: (270)756-5634

WEB: www.bcplibrary.org

OFFICE HOURS:
Monday: 8:30 a.m.- 7:30 p.m. CST
Tuesday – Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. CST
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST

Story Hours: Tuesdays: 10:00 a.m. twice/month
(activities are not held on a specific Monday and Tuesday, but are spaced two weeks apart — monthly schedule is published in the newspaper)

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: First Tuesday of each month (beginning in November) 4:00 p.m. Bring a friend and a snack.

SPEAKERS SERIES: Sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council in Cooperation with the Breckinridge County Public Library, the local historical society, and the local extension homemakers’ office. Meets the last Monday of September, October, November, February, March and April. Sessions begin at 6:30 p.m.

FEES:

$1.00 fax charge/page; incoming, 25 cents/page

$ .25 copying charge/page

BOOK DISCUSSION: IRVINGTON BRANCH ONLY. Meets on the third Thursday of each month at 11:00 am. Participants are asked to bring their lunch and discuss a designated book or topic.

Family Resource and Youth Services Centers

OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM

SERVICES: Provides a variety of services to assist families of school students. Possible assistance with food, clothing, basic needs, counseling, child care, parenting concerns, educational issues, etc.

ELIGIBILITY: Must have student enrolled in School.

FEES: N/A

Department for Community Based Services
And Family Support

OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

SERVICES: Food Stamp program, Medicaid assistance, K-TAP for families with children under 18 years of age, an absent parent, or parent unable to work.

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone may go and apply for services. Eligibility is based on income.

Income limits vary by household and program guidelines.

FEES: None.

Fort Knox ACS Outreach

Army Community Service Outreach Program
DCFA—ACS, Bldg 77 Binter Street
Fort Knox, KY 40121
Phone: (502) 624-6291/8391

Army Community Service Programs are designed to provide Army families, both active duty and retired, with a centrally located source of information, guidance, and assistance in solving problems of personal or family nature which are beyond the scope of their own resources

SERVICES:

ACS OUTREACH is your primary information & referral office for military families both on and off the installation. Outreach promotes all ACS programs and their efforts. The Outreach Coordinator is the liaison between military and civilian resources available within the surrounding civilian communities. Outreach assists family members with adaptation to military lifestyle, focusing on resources, transportation, life skills training workshops, lessons of interest, translations, prevention and education.

FAMILY ADVOCACY provides crisis intervention, counseling and referral in cases of child and spouse abuse and family member suicide prevention.

CONSUMER AFFAIRS & FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE provides budget counseling and assistance and/or intervention in consumer fraud, problems with landlords, merchants, as well as provides weekly financial management classes.

FAMILY MEMBER EMPLOYMENT provides assistance to family members seeking employment by assistance in competing job applications, writing resumes and preparing for interviews. Job referrals are also provided as well as Hire-a-Teen program.

FOSTER/RESPITE CARE provides voluntary or court-mandated program for children who cannot be cared for by their own family and need substitute care. The program provides 24-hour care and supportive services in a foster family home. Respite childcare assistance is provided to families who are not able to provide care for their children.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE provides assistance to soldiers and family incoming and outgoing in to the new community. Information on any installation can be acquired through this office; a loan closet lending service is available and welcome packets. Orientations are held weekly to inform newcomer’s and to prepare soldiers and family members for the change of duty station.

ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF provides emergency financial assistance to Army personnel and their families, needy spouses, and orphans of decreased Army   members. Monetary educational assistance may also be provided to dependent children of Army personnel.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES are plentiful within ACS and in the Fort Knox community.

SERVICE AREA: Includes all of Fort Knox and surrounding civilian communities.

ELIGIBILITY: All active duty, retired, National Guard, reserve and their family member, and are eligible ID card holders.

FEES: None

Helping Hand
212 W. Dixie Avenue
P.O. Box 642
Elizabethtown, KY 42702

Phone: (270) 769-3092
Fax: (270) 769-9590

Email: info@helpinghandky.org

WEB: www.helpinghandky.org

OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST (Closed 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM for lunch)

SERVICES: Provides temporary emergency assistance to families and individuals in Hardin County, South of Routes 220 & 434, who are in need of food, housing and utility assistance, clothing and other basic needs. Also offers aid to stranded families and individuals in the form of bus tickets, gasoline, and overnight shelter and food.

Job Readiness Program through Adult Education 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM.

SERVICE AREA: South of Routes 220 and 434

ELIGIBILITY: Emergency Needs

FEES: None

Central Kentucky Head Start Program
332 Hood Avenue P.O. Box 830
Lebanon, KY 40033

Phone: (270) 692-2136
Fax: (270) 692-4530

To provide educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to preschool, disadvantaged children and their families.

OFFICE HOURS: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

SERVICES: Pre-School curriculum and related activities.

SERVICE AREA: Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties.

ELIGIBILITY: 3 and 4 years old; low income and/or handicapped.

FEES: None