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This page was last updated on Thursday, August 14, 2008 08:04:38 AM
 
 
The Kentucky Foster and Adoptive Parent Training and Support Network
The Lakes/Purchase Region Team                                            
 
                                                                                    
                                                                                     
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The Kentucky Foster and Adoptive Parent Training and Support Network is an organization dedicated to helping state approved foster and adoptive parents across Kentucky.  Each region of Kentucky has at least one team of trained, seasoned foster and/or adoptive parents who are dedicated to the support, retention, recruitment, and training of foster and adoptive parents within the region.  Teams work with staff of the Department for Community Based services to provide quality training and support.  Team members are trained in Psychological First Aid in order to be able to provide support to parents in crisis.   


 
 REMINDER!!!
 
Since Lane Sirls is no longer the billing specialist foster parents are to send their board bills to Carolyn Hale in Hopkinsville now.  Remember to still send any adoption subsidy information (receipts, etc.) to Lisa Brazzell. 
 
(You can print the board bill from this website.) 
  
 
 
 
 
Are you parenting a child who has bipolar disorder?  Check out our page for designed just for you for more information about Bipolar Disorder and to join in our online support!  Click Here 
 

 
View our monthly Newsletter. 
             
 
  View the statewide monthly Newsletter.
           
Online Training Opportunities

 
 
Are You STRESSED
and a foster or adoptive parent
in the Purchase Region of Kentucky?
 
Please call us Toll Free at
1-888-266-4973
or email us at
for confidential peer support!
 

 
The Purchase Region Team
 
 
  
Team members for the Purchase Region include Willa Suggs, Wakendra Gourley, Tammy Deboe, and Cora Stubblefield.

 



Upcoming  Trainings:

 
 
We are planning a Super Saturday for November!!!
Save November 15th for this fun event.  It will take place at the Curris Center in Murray.  More to come...
 
See Upcoming Trainings page for more information!
 

  
  
 
 
 
ATTENTION!
 
 
Learn how to keep yourself and your family members safe from allegations of abuse or neglect or learn what to do once an allegation has been made.  Read Handling Allegations Against Your Home.

 

Summer is here!
 
 
   


ATTENTION!
The monthly Lifebook training that Lori Dowdy and Teresa Vincent provide in Mayfield is now a QUARTERLY training.  See our
page for exact dates!

Considered Fostering or Adopting? 
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Want to view a slide show of children available in our region?
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See kids from our region who are anxiously awaiting their adoptive families!
(Last updated November 20th, 2007)
 
          
 
 
To search children all over the state of Kentucky who are waiting for their forever families go to

 



Find our more about the Network in the Purchase Region!

Contact Us:
Tammy Deboe
Wakendra Gourley
Cora Stubblefield
Willa Suggs
Michelle Schornak
Sherri Wirt
 
Call Toll Free 1-888-266-4973
 
 

 
Interested in becoming a foster or adoptive parent in the Puchase Region of Kentucky? 
 
Informational meetings (this is the first step!) are held in Mayfield at 333 Charles Street at 6:00 pm on the first Tuesday of every month!