Step Up for Kids Conference Training Materials
Advocates across Kentucky gathered in Louisville on October 7th for the Step Up for Kids Conference to celebrate National Step Up for Kids Week, and to prepare for the 6th Annual Children's Advocacy Day at the Capitol, to be held on February 18, 2010.
View Powerpoint presentations and handouts from the following sessions:
Advocacy 101
- June Widman, Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition
- This presentation is designed for those advocates who have not spent a lot of time at the Capitol and need to know the basics about delivering their advocacy message to their elected officials.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation
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Fair Deal for Working Parents: Payday Lending
- Adam Renner, Bellarmine College of Arts and Sciences and Melissa Fry Konty, Mountain Association of Community Economic Development
- Learn why payday lending proves to be a debt trap for so many Kentuckians and what can be done to protect borrowers.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handouts (pdf)
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Fair Opportunity for Every Child: Graduation
- Debbie Powers, University of Louisville and Chris Locke, Metro United Way
- Currently, youth can legally drop out of high school at age 16. Learn about the impact on youth, communities, as well as solutions for improving the rate of youth graduating from high school in Kentucky.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handouts (pdf)
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Fair Opportunity for Every Child: Juvenile Justice
- Amy Swann, Kentucky Youth Advocates and Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, Children’s Law Center Kentucky has the second highest rate in the country of detaining youth for offenses that would not be crimes if committed by an adult.
- Learn about the current efforts underway for developing a model for communities to create other options than secure detention and for legislative changes to ensure other options are exhausted before charging youth with an offense.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handout (pdf)
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Safe and Health Families: Family Preservation
- Michelle Sanborn, Children’s Alliance
- Learn about proposals aimed at reducing child abuse and neglect and prevention of out of home placements. The proposals to be discussed include: 1) ensuring that family preservation services are available to every child who needs it and 2) increasing access to family reunification.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handout (pdf)
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Safe and Health Families: School Based Health
- Joan Buchar, Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky and Carrie Baker, Ohio School Based Health Care Association
- Explore how a state level funder prioritizes the importance of school-based health and how Ohio implemented a comprehensive system to improve children’s health.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation
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Tax and Budget 101
- Brigitte Ramsey, Kentucky Youth Advocates
- Learn about Kentucky’s budget process, the importance of revenue forecasting, where government revenues come from and how they are spent.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handouts (pdf)
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Tax and Budget 201
- Brigitte Ramsey, Kentucky Youth Advocates
- Learn about recent impacts of the economic downturn, the facts about Kentucky’s structural deficit, and revenue options to consider.
- View the Powerpoint (pdf) presentation and Handout (pdf)
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