Safety
Resources
Kentucky Resources
- The Children's Alliance - The Children's Alliance is a non-profit association of children and family service agencies throughout Kentucky, who serve abused, neglected and abandoned children and families.
- Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services - The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is home to most of the state's human services and health care programs, including Medicaid, the Department for Community Based Services and the Department for Public Health.
- Kentucky Center for School Safety - provides training, resources, information and research on school safety.
accesses resources and provides support to programs that educate State Agency Children.
- Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky - through its statewide network of programs and volunteers, offers a wide array of child abuse prevention strategies.
- Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center - works to reduce injury through education, policy initiatives, public health programming, surveillance, risk factor analysis, direct interventions, and evaluation.
- University of Louisville Urban Studies Institute - The Urban Studies Institute is an applied social policy and economic research center serving the Louisville metropolitan area and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
National Resources
- American Psychological Association - The American Psychological Association advances the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people’s lives
- Annie E. Casey Foundation - The Annie E. Casey Foundation fosters public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.
- Casey Family Programs - Casey Family Programs work to provide and improve—and ultimately to prevent the need for—foster care.
- Center for the Study of Social Policy - The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) works to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that create opportunities to strengthen families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
- Child Trends - Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing research and data to inform decision-making that affects children.
- Child Welfare Information Gateway - The Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.
- Child Welfare League of America - The Child Welfare League of America is a coalition of hundreds of private and public agencies serving vulnerable children and families through leadership and innovation on policies.
- CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare - The Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare seeks to address two widespread issues in child welfare: disproportionality and disparity of outcomes for children of color.
- National Center for Children in Poverty - The National Center for Children in Poverty is a public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children.
- National Center for Health Statistics - The National Center for Health Statistics compiles statistical information into a public recourse for health information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people.
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control works to prevent injuries and violence, and to reduce their consequences.
- Prevent Child Abuse America - Prevent Child Abuse America provides leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.