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This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 02:21:22 PM
 
 
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.   

 
 
New!
Want an opportunity to help kids in care?!
Do some holiday shopping that will help raise money for kids!
 
Check out our newest page! 
 
 
The HOLIDAYS are coming!!!
 
The foster care association is planning their foster child Christmas party!  Remember to call Amie Lyons or Karen Pucket to give them your kids' names and ages.  Call your R&C worker to get their contact information!
 
 
 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 Michelle Schornak (not pictured).
 
Interested in joining our team as an alternate member?  Email us!

 


Upcoming  Trainings:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.

 

NEW!
Wonder what the policy is about how quickly you need to get a child's dentist appointment when they arrive at your house?  How about whether or not your foster child must have a lifebook?  Find answers to questions such as these in the DCBS manuals online.  Follow the link below and search the manuals!
Non-Emergency Medical Transport
for a vender number or to learn more contact:
 
Petrina Miller
L.K.L.P CAC Inc.
398 Roy Campbell Drive
Hazard, Ky.41701
1-800-401-4287
Provider Compliance Specialist
 
 
Autumn is here!
 
 
   

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
Willa Suggs
Michelle Schornak
 
We would like to thank Cora Stubblefield for her many years of service on the Network.  She has resigned her position on the team.  She will be greatly missed!
 
 
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!
 
Brown Bag informational meetings will take place in county offices on November 18 from 12-2.