Welcome to Kentucky Family Policy

This blog is dedicated to examining issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and providing a nonpartisan, family perspective on public policy making. We hope to provide a forum for Kentuckians to review and discuss current legislative actions and the issues such actions are attempting to address. The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Kentucky, its affiliates, or its representatives.

What the authors of this blog will contribute:
1) Summarize current state, national, and international research related to topics relevant to current legilative actions.
2) Describe Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programs and activities currently addressing issues related to legilative actions in the various counties.
3) Provide expert commentaries via podcasts and videocasts on issues relevant to current legilative actions.

Please see "Priority Bills" section on the right for a short list of the most current legislative actions relevant to the family focus of this blog

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Spotlight Series: Bell County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Bell

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programing and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is Bell County where a workshop was developed by the FCS agent to assist parents in building their parenting skills. The ten parents who participated received information on child development, teaching self-control, caring for health, and the importance of talking and reading with their child. They participated in activities to help them develop better parenting skills and learned how to build their capacity to parent on an ongoing basis.

For more information about the needs of families in Bell County and how UK Cooperative Extension is providing services, please click here to see the full Bell County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Profile

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