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Frankfort presenters urge expanded youth supports; opioid-abatement funding fuels a new county-ASAP partnership
Summary
Speakers from Thornhill Education Center, the Wanda Joyce Robinson Foundation and ASAP described rapid growth in education and youth-mentoring programs and urged the fiscal court to support a Boys & Girls Club and build a recovery-and-reentry coordination position funded through opioid-abatement grants and local match.
Multiple nonprofits and program leaders told the Franklin County Fiscal Court on Sept. 11 that local youth programs have expanded quickly and need more sustained county support to scale prevention and reentry services.
Kelly Anderson, executive director of Thornhill Education Center, described expanded GED and ESL classes (including jail-based instruction), family literacy work and an innovation center grant to start a youth drone-certification program. "We are here to make things better for the people of Franklin County and of Frankfort," Anderson said, noting partnerships with Kentucky State University…
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