Kentucky Partnership for Families and Children

This information is relevant for all brains where learning is invloved indcluding AUTISM, ADD and ADHD.

In Laura Barker's, MS, OTR lively, entertaining and engergetic teaching style you will learn:
-How to get anyones brain READY for learning
-How to use easy brain input to help kids and adults focus and concentrate
- A perspective for helping people of all ages and abilities feel/do better no matter what challenges they face.
-Input that can enhance the results of other treatments
-Enhance learning for all ages
-How brain strategies influence learning
-How stress influences behavior and learning
-The scientific rationale for using sensory processing strategies
-How to identify what brains need
-How to interpret behaviors from a sensory processing perspective

This year’s conference will be held at the Galt House in Louisville, KY and will feature over 200 sessions, institutes and workshops. For more information, or to register, contact Marinell Kephart with the Northen KY Center for Exceptional Children’s Services at (859) 442-7031 or Marinell.Kephart@nkces.org

This year’s conference will be held at the Galt House in Louisville, KY. This conference is geared towards superintendents, school administrators, local school board members, educators, counselors, and other youth-serving professionals associated with Kentucky’s public schools. Look for online registration beginning in August at www.kysafeschools.org.

KPFC’s next board meeting will be held in Frankfort, all are welcome. For more information, please contact us at (502) 875-1320, if outside Frankfort, (800) 369-0533, or via e-mail at kpfc@kypartnership.net.

Suicide prevention is everyone’s business!! If you would like to become more involved with suicide prevention efforts across Kentucky, or stay updated on those efforts, please e-mail KYSuicidePrevention@gmail.com. Or contact Jan Ulrich at Jan.Ulrich@ky.gov or Michael McFarland at Michael.McFarland@ky.gov or (502) 564-4456.

This year’s conference will again be held at the Mariott Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington, KY. For more information, contact Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky at (800) CHILDREN (244-53736) or www.pcaky.org.

The Betty Triplett Award will be given to an outstanding professional who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in:
-offering services,
-leading a program,
-advocating, and/or
-going “beyond the call of duty” for children and families dealing with emotional, social, or behavioral disabilities.

A monetary award will be presented during a luncheon on December 6, 2008. Contact kpfc@kypartnership.net for an application.

The Libby Fernandez Award will be given to a parent/caregiver of a child with an emotional, social or behavioral disability. This outstanding family member shall have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the areas of:
-leading a support group,
-mentoring other parents, and/or
-advocating for children with emotional, social, or behavioral disabilities.

A monetary award will be presented during a luncheon on December 6, 2008. Contact kpfc@kypartnership.net for an application.

Will be held at the Blue Grass Community Action partnership office, 111 Professional Court, Frankfort, Kentucky, in the conference room on the lower level of the building. All Medicaid members and their guardians, providers, advocacy organizations and staff are invited to attend to learn what’s new with Kentucky Medicaid and to ask any questions they may have.

Requests for accommodations should be made to lynne.flynn@ky.gov or 502-564-4321 no later than two weeks in advance of the meeting date.

This year's conference will be at the Galt House in Louisville, KY. Look for KPFC's July newsletter for more information.