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
Approximately 15.2% of Wolfe County residents are over the age of 65. As people age they may face nutrition and food affordability challenges due to financial and health-related changes. To help combat these issues, the Wolfe County Family Consumer Sciences Agent conducts monthly nutrition lessons at the local senior citizen center and has partnered with God's Pantry to provide boxes of food staples to local seniors. During the last 15 months 3687 food boxes have been distributed to seniors. The food distributed is estimated to be valued at $129,045. Seniors receiving the boxes each month also receive nutrition newsletters and healthy recipes. 100% of the older adults report that they have made changes in their daily lives to improve their health.
To see the entire Building Strong Families County profile for Wolfe county, please click the link.
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