Making Kids Count
Making Kids Count
Kentucky Youth Advocates
COVID-19 and Kentucky Kids: The Impact on the HANDS Home Visiting Program
30 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2020 at 4:00 am.
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Terry Brooks is joined via phone by Pam Darnall, president and CEO of Family and Children's Place in Louisville, and Tammy Weidinger, president and CEO of the Brighton Center in Northern Kentucky. They discuss the critical services Kentucky's Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) home visiting program provides, current disruptions to the service for many Kentucky families, and the needs of HANDS providers and the families they serve now and post-pandemic.
Families can learn more about HANDS and how to access services in their community at www.kyhands.com.
This is part of a series of conversations where we examine the immediate and long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kentucky kids and the systems that influence their lives – health care, education, early childhood education and care, child welfare, youth justice, economic security, and more. View our COVID-19 page for more information.