April 10, 2024
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A with Tara Pulaski, program coordinator for the Citizen Review Panels and Children’s Justice Act Task Force.
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February 16, 2024
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A on its Foster Parent Mentor Program, highlighting the crucial support and guidance provided to new foster parents through one-on-one coaching relationships with experienced mentors.
February 5, 2024
The University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work launches the Kentucky Kinship Resource Center, offering unique support and innovative services like KY-KINS to kinship caregivers, addressing the high rate of kinship care in Kentucky.
January 29, 2024
Arriving at the CoSW in the fall of 2023, Tarkington Newman is the director of the Sport Social Work Research Lab. Through his core research, Newman is looking at how sport can foster places where learning can occur, particularly related to social justice.
January 19, 2024
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A on its Foster Parent Mentor Program, highlighting the crucial support and guidance provided to new foster parents through one-on-one coaching relationships with experienced mentors.
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Empowering Children and Families: Q&A with Tara Pulaski, CJA and CRP Program Coordinator
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A with Tara Pulaski, program coordinator for the Citizen Review Panels and Children’s Justice Act Task Force.
April 10, 2024
Foster Parent Mentor Program Q&A: Empowering New Foster Parents
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A on its Foster Parent Mentor Program, highlighting the crucial support and guidance provided to new foster parents through one-on-one coaching relationships with experienced mentors.
February 16, 2024
Investing in Kinship Families: KY-KINS Provides Individualized Peer Support
The University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work launches the Kentucky Kinship Resource Center, offering unique support and innovative services like KY-KINS to kinship caregivers, addressing the high rate of kinship care in Kentucky.
February 5, 2024
Sport Social Work Research Lab: Exploring the Impact of Recreation on Youth Development
Arriving at the CoSW in the fall of 2023, Tarkington Newman is the director of the Sport Social Work Research Lab. Through his core research, Newman is looking at how sport can foster places where learning can occur, particularly related to social justice.
January 29, 2024
Foster Parent Mentor Program Q&A: Providing Encouragement Through Mentorship
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work features a Q&A on its Foster Parent Mentor Program, highlighting the crucial support and guidance provided to new foster parents through one-on-one coaching relationships with experienced mentors.
January 19, 2024
Emily Puckett: Law School Mom and Foster Parent Mentor
Emily Puckett, a third-year law student and member of the Foster Parent Mentor Program at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work, shares her story as a student and
January 12, 2024
Fostering Connections: ASK Program’s Support in National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month and at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work, the Adoption Support for Kentucky (ASK) program supports foster and adoptive parents daily through trainings
November 30, 2023
Kentucky Counties Among the First to Achieve START Affiliate Status
The START – Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams – programs in Boyd, Jefferson, and Kenton counties have achieved certification as local START affiliates by the National Sobriety Treatment and Recovery
August 24, 2023
Fostering Bright Futures: Providing Paid Workforce Experiences for Foster Alumni
Each year, more than 500 young people in Kentucky age out of the foster care system. Because they have not found permanency through parental reunification, permanent legal custody, or adoption,
August 15, 2023
Suicide Is an All-Too-Common Problem Among Military Populations. We’re Working to Change That.
The mental health challenges faced by active-duty, reserve, and veteran military populations have been highly publicized in recent years, largely due to the climbing rates of death by suicide in
August 15, 2023
Complex Supports for Complex Needs: The Medically Complex Training Program
The University of Kentucky College of Social Work (CoSW) has long been committed to providing innovative supports for all caregivers, regardless of context. The Medically Complex Training Program (MCTP), housed
August 15, 2023
Just A Click Away: On-Demand Supports for Kinship Caregivers Available Through Growing Online Catalogue
Kinship care, a term unfamiliar to most outside of child welfare settings, describes arrangements in which children are cared for full-time by blood relatives or other adults with whom the
August 15, 2023