Urgent call for volunteers in twenty-six Kentucky counties to assess foster care situations

The Kentucky Courts of Justice website serves as a comprehensive resource for individuals interested in volunteering for the Citizen Foster Care Review Boards. These boards play a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and best interests of children in foster care are being met.

The children in question have been placed in foster care due to dependency, neglect, and abuse, and their cases are not final. The boards conduct interactive reviews on these children's cases and make recommendations to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services regarding their welfare.

The cases evaluated by the Citizen Foster Care Review Boards may include those whose adoptions have not been finalized, those who have returned home, and young adults with extended out-of-home commitments for educational purposes.

Rosalyn Patton-Pelt, the state chair of the foster care review board, has expressed the need for more volunteers. Volunteers are needed statewide, not just in specific counties.

The counties in urgent need of volunteers are Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Fleming, Greenup, Hardin, Johnson, Kenton, Laurel, Lawrence, Lewis, Magoffin, Martin, Mason, McCreary, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell, Robertson, Rowan, Whitley, and Wolfe.

Individuals who wish to volunteer must apply for consideration, consent to a criminal record and central registry check, and complete six hours of initial training. Detailed information for online volunteer application submission can be found on the Kentucky Courts of Justice website.

Thousands of Kentucky children are placed in foster and other out-of-home care each year. The need for volunteers was recently announced through a press release from the Administrative Office of the Courts.

The organization seeking volunteers in Kentucky to serve on Citizen Foster Care Review Boards, which review cases of children in foster care managed by the Department for Community Based Services of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, is the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services itself.

For more information about the Citizen Foster Care Review Boards, their purpose, and the application process, visit the Kentucky Courts of Justice website. The program's website provides a wealth of information to help potential volunteers understand the role they could play in making a difference in a child's life.

Urgent call for volunteers in twenty-six Kentucky counties to assess foster care situations