Nearly $1M Awarded to Teach Kentucky Residents Parenting, Finance Skills

The Kentucky Department of Income Support was awarded $942,294 for fiscal year 2021.

Eight states, including Kentucky, were selected by the Office of Child Support Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families to develop nine programs to educate teens and young adults who do not yet have children about the financial, legal and emotional responsibilities of parenthood.

The agencies will collaborate with youth job development programs, foster care transition services, juvenile justice agencies, teen pregnancy prevention programs, community colleges and public schools to integrate child support and responsible parenting education into youth-centered systems.

DIS, an agency of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, will advance this effort in partnership with the University of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work, the Louisville Urban League (Louisville, KY) and the Louisville Metro Office of Resilience and Community Resources, Jefferson County Public Schools and their Family Resource Center Coordinators.

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