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Kentucky Child Now Closing Its Doors!

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Partners,

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Kentucky Child Now will be closing its doors effective October 31, 2009. Unfortunately, due to the poor economy and lack of funding, Kentucky Child Now has made the difficult decision to end its work after 10 years of amazing success impacting the lives of children and youth. We want to thank all of our supporters for their dedication to Kentucky's children. Although Kentucky Child Now is dissolving, its work will continue through amazing partners who were able to see the importance of our work.

School Based Health Center Network - Kentucky Youth Advocates will continue the work in this area and Dr. Young will stay involved. Contact Persons:

Lacey McNary - lmcnary@kyyouth.org

Thomas Young - tyoung@uky.edu

Out of School Alliance - The Out of School Alliance has moved to a new address. Phyllis Elder remains the Coordinator and she can be reached at the following address:

Phyllis Elder

Kentucky Out-of-School Alliance Coordinator

OVEC

PO Box 1249

100 Alpine Drive

Shelbyville, KY 40066

502-647-3533 ext. 273

Email: pelder@kyoutofschoolalliance.org

CyberSafeKY - Due to the huge demand, the Attorney Generals office will schedule presentations in your community. Thanks to the sponsorship of AT&T we have been able to provide trainings at no charge. Hopefully a new sponsor will support this amazing initiative. Contact Person:

Debbie Gilbert - Debbie.gilbert@ag.ky.gov

Signs of Suicide/Mental Health Training - These trainings are extremely important to your school. The contact persons for the initiative will be:

Jan Ulrich - jan.ulrich@ky.gov

Karen Napier - kenapier @tds.net

Coordinating Council - Terry Brooks from Kentucky Youth Advocates will be working closely with the Coordinating Council

Terry Brooks - tbrooks@kyyouth.org

Quality Counts Initiative - Rebecca DeJarnatt will remain the contact person in Louisville and Larry Johnson will remain the contact in Lexington

Rebecca DeJarnatt - Rebecca.DeJarnatt@louisvilleky.gov

Larry Johnson - ljohnson@lfucg.com

Youth Advisory Council - The Youth Advisory Council will be looking for a new home. Until then, please contact Kyle Williams for questions

Kyle Williams - kylepwill@gmail.com

Training Institute and Youth Development Training - Please contact Mary Kate Poling at lmkpoling@msn.com if you have an interest in trainings