More than 70 Kentucky counties - including more than a dozen in the region - are in need of volunteers to review foster care cases.
According to a release, Citizen Foster Care Review Boards are seeking help ensuring children are placed in safe, permanent homes.
Volunteers work with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the courts to review files on children in out-of-home care.
Those interested do not need to live in a county in need but must complete a six-hour training session and consent to background checks. A session in Christian County is on August 18.
Volunteers conducted nearly 21,000 reviews of more than 11,300 cases in fiscal year 2016.
Foster care reform is a key issue for Governor MattBevin, inspired by challenges in his own family’s adoption efforts.
Counties in Need (from news release)
Barren, Bath, Bell, Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Campbell, Carter, Christian, Clay, Crittenden, Edmonson, Elliott, Fayette, Fleming, Floyd, Fulton, Grant, Graves, Grayson, Green, Greenup, Hardin, Harlan, Harrison, Hart, Hickman, Jefferson, Jessamine, Johnson, Kenton, Knott, Knox, LaRue, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Livingston, Logan, Lyon, Magoffin, Marion, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Nicholas, Oldham, Owsley, Pendleton, Perry, Pike, Powell, Roberts, Rowan, Simpson, Todd, Trigg, Union, Warren, Washington and Wolfe.
