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Parent education program description of services;

KVC Behavioral Health Care will provide Parent Education Services for parents in Lawrence County and surrounding areas, with the goal of supporting and assisting parents to build strong, healthy families through the caring nurturing of their children. The Parent Education Services will use the evidence-based Nurturing Parenting curriculum, which will be implemented in a group format.

KVC’s Parent Education Services program will consist of 12 consecutive weeks of closed group sessions for parents. Topics addressed in this curriculum will include skill-building strategies for developing empathy and improving parent-child communication, implementing discipline and family rules, and increasing positive interactions among family members. The KVC Parent Education Services program will be a closed group of 12 parents; no additional participants will be enrolled after the first session. The parenting group sessions will be 2 hours in duration each week. Parents who participate in the parenting group for the duration of the 12-week program will receive a certificate of completion.

Lunch will be provided for parents during each Parent Education group session.

All parent participants will complete an intake packet for services and will sign off that they understand the requirements of mandated reporting.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PARENT EDUCATION

Parent Education referrals can come from DCBS, the court, community partners, and by way of self-referral. The family does not need to have an open child protective services case to receive services. 

Parent Education Services are offered on a voluntary basis to referred families.  The family must agree to the terms of service EXCEPT in the case of a referral by the Cabinet or Court.

The Location of the class is The Point of Hope  524 South Hwy. 3 Louisa, KY 41230. The class will start on 3-5-13 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. If interested in participating in the class please call KVC at 606-638-9008.

“This project is funded, in part, under a contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services through Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky using state funds allocated by the Kentucky General Assembly”.

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Feb. 6, 2013

Saturday mail delivery to end Aug. 1...

In an effort to save $2 billion, the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting Aug. 1. Packages, however, will still be delivered six days a week.

The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting August 1, the agency is set to announce Wednesday.

This means that for the first time Americans will receive mail only five days a week, a significant shift for the storied mail agency, which has suffered tens of billions of dollars in losses in recent years with the advent of the Internet and e-commerce.

Post offices would remain open on Saturdays so that customers can drop off mail or packages, buy postage stamps, or access their post office boxes, officials said. Hours likely would be reduced at thousands of smaller locations, they said.

USPS also plans to continue Saturday delivery of packages, which remain a profitable and growing part of the delivery business. Post offices would remain open on Saturdays so that customers can drop off mail or packages, buy postage stamps, or access their post office boxes, officials said. But hours likely would be reduced at thousands of smaller locations, they said.

Canceling Saturday mail deliveries will save USPS $2 billion annually, according to congressional and postal officials, who confirmed the news ahead of a formal announcement.

The move has been expected for years, but is being announced absent explicit congressional approval, even though lawmakers have argued their consent is necessary in order to make the operational change. Postal officials are expected to argue Wednesday that they do not need congressional action in order to halt Saturday delivery.

The Postal Service said that it suffered a $15.9 billion net loss for fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30. That’s three times the loss recorded a year earlier.

Congress in recent years has prohibited the Postal Service from dropping Saturday mail delivery, and the USPS has pushed to lift that restriction.

The Postal Service currently is not operating under appropriations legislation, meaning the organization will have a window to end Saturday mail delivery when the government’s most last temporary spending measure expires on March 27. USPS is asking Congress not to reimpose the restriction against five-day delivery when that time comes.

A majority of Americans support ending Saturday mail, according to national polls conducted in recent years, and President Obama has proposed halting deliveries as part of his budget-cutting proposals. Though the Postal Service is a quasi-governmental, self-funding entity, its worker compensation and retirement plans are tied to the federal budget.

Lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully for years to enact a significant overhaul of the Postal Service, hoping to reshape the agency as a leaner organization that delivers mail less frequently and operates fewer post offices across the country.

The Senate last year passed a bipartisan measure that would have permitted an end to Saturday mail delivery only after USPS conducted two years of feasibility studies. But postal officials — and some GOP lawmakers — opposed that plan, arguing that reams of professional studies and a declining balance sheet already proved that the change was needed. A Republican-backed postal reform bill cleared a key committee last year, but was never considered by the full House. The GOP bill would have permitted ending Saturday mail deliveries within a year’s time.

Opposition to significant changes rests mostly with lawmakers from far-flung rural communities, who fear that a change in schedules could jeopardize low-cost delivery of medicines and medical supplies to elderly customers. The publishing industry also has complained that any changes would force quicker magazine publication deadlines and require some publishers to seek private delivery options instead, likely raising newsstand prices.

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