Archive for the ‘Juvenile Services’ Category

Protection & Permanency
Family Support Services

Protective service agency reference for abused/neglected children and adults, cooperate with juvenile and circuit courts. Provide treatment to youths in trouble. Upgrade family life.

OFFICE HOURS: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM (Monday-Friday)

SERVICES: Adoption, Foster Care, Adult Services, Protective Services, Family Services, Juvenile Services and Day Care Services. Investigates reports of possible abuse/neglect of children and adults. Placement planning for the elderly.

ELIGIBILITY: Based on need. Sometimes by court order.

County Cooperative Extension Services

SERVICES: As the University of Kentucky education and information arm, the Cooperative Extension Service translates University research into practical information that is used every day by urban as well as rural Kentuckians. The main areas include:

Agriculture/Horticulture, Home Economics, 4-H/Youth Development, and Rural & Economic Development. Free literature related to these areas and soil testing are

available.

SERVICE AREA: County residents

ELIGIBILITY: County Residents

FEES: None

Communicare Children’s Outpatient Counseling
1311 N. Dixie
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
270-769-1304

SERVICES: Individual and family counseling for school aged children and adolescents.

Psychiatric consultation and medication management also available in conjunction with counseling.

ELIGIBILITY: Children ages 4-18. Counseling for children less than 5 years of age would involve primarily collateral counseling with the parents and possible referral for a complete child evaluation at the Weipskoff Child Evaluation Center in Louisville.

FEES: Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance accepted. Sliding fee for those without insurance, based on income.

Communicare Children’s Crisis Stabilization Unit

100 Gray Street
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Phone: 270-360-0419
Fax: 270-763-1609

SERVICES: Mental Health Emergency/Crisis Evaluation of children ages 4-17, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The Crisis Unit is a residential 8-bed facility that provides an alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Individual, family, and group therapy are available daily. Psychiatric evaluation with a child psychologist is available as needed for each child admitted to the unit.

SERVICE AREA: Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, andWashington counties. Referrals also accepted as long as the parents/guardian is able to attend regularly scheduled family sessions.

FEES: Medicaid and some private insurance accepted. Sliding fee for those without insurance coverage for this level of care, based on income.

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

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