Kentucky
Kentucky students join Gov. Beshear, Lt. Gov. Coleman at Student Mental Health Awareness event
College students on the Kentucky Division of Schooling’s Commissioner’s Pupil Advisory Council spoke about their findings from the student-led psychological well being motion summits on the Pupil Psychological Well being Consciousness Occasion held on Might 12 on the Kentucky State Capitol. Attending the occasion had been, from left, Deputy Chief of Workers Heather Dearing, JuLeah Edie, Roxanne Lockard, Solyana Mesfin, Sam Smith, Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, Bentley White, Logan Justice and Soleila Elliot González. Picture by Audrie Lamb, Might 12, 2022.
College students on the Kentucky Division of Schooling’s (KDE’s) Commissioner’s Pupil Advisory Council joined Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and Gov. Andy Beshear on Might 12 on the Kentucky State Capitol for the ceremonial signing of Home Invoice (HB) 44, which permits native faculty districts’ attendance insurance policies to incorporate provisions for a scholar’s psychological well being or behavioral well being standing.
“We’re seeing an instance at this time about how that is going to be probably the most purpose-filled technology now we have seen in a very long time. One which understands how linked we’re. One keen to be susceptible for each other. One keen to carry up the folks round us like we’re seeing at this time,” mentioned Beshear. “Staff Kentucky is happy and proud to help these college students and promote scholar psychological well being by way of a number of collaborations throughout companies and with faculties and neighborhood companions.”
HB 44 sponsors Rep. Lisa Willner and Rep. Bobby McCool had been additionally in attendance.
“This actually was a crew effort,” mentioned McCool. “These college students have carried out a beautiful job. … Psychological well being is a well being challenge that we must always tackle and proceed to work on.”
Willner mentioned that this would be the first piece of laws that comes out of the coed’s work on psychological well being advocacy, however actually not the final.
“I can’t thank sufficient the scholars who got here to us from throughout Kentucky who introduced us this laws for excused psychological well being absences,” she mentioned. “That is my favourite form of laws. It’s bipartisan. It’s city, rural. And it got here straight from the oldsters most affected.”
The Pupil Psychological Well being Consciousness Occasion additionally honored the work of Coleman and the scholars on scholar psychological well being consciousness in Kentucky that started in June 2021.
Final yr, Coleman partnered with the Commissioner’s Pupil Advisory Council (SAC), Kentucky’s regional schooling cooperatives, the Division for Behavioral Well being on the Cupboard for Well being and Household Providers, and the Division of Household Useful resource Youth Service Facilities to create the Pupil Psychological Well being Motion Summits. The roundtable summits had been shaped to listen to from college students straight and accumulate information that may very well be used to higher tackle college students’ psychological well being.
There have been 10 occasions held throughout the Commonwealth – 9 in-person in lots of schooling cooperative districts and one digital – with practically 300 college students in attendance total. At every occasion, scholar facilitators framed the problem being mentioned for college students who had been in attendance and introduced primary scholar psychological well being information.
Members of the SAC analyzed each response to questions requested throughout the summits and got here up with 10 suggestions to enhance scholar psychological well being in Kentucky faculties.
Charleigh Browning, a junior at Marion County Excessive College, introduced the findings from the student-led psychological well being motion summits on the Pupil Psychological Well being Consciousness Occasion held on Might 12 on the Kentucky State Capitol. The scholars plan to current their findings to the Kentucky Normal Meeting’s Joint Interim Committee on Schooling this summer time. Picture by Audrie Lamb, Might 12, 2022
“Whereas we’re enthusiastic about Home Invoice 44, which permits psychological well being as an excused absence, we wish to go additional,” mentioned Charleigh Browning, a junior at Marion County Excessive College.
The suggestions are:
- Six excused psychological well being days per faculty yr;
- Incorporating scholar voice into all ranges of decision-making by way of tiered interventions and educational strategies;
- Allocating funding for a licensed psychological well being skilled to be on faculty campuses always in each Ok-12 faculty;
- Peer mentoring for college students who aren’t comfy speaking to an grownup;
- Making suicide prevention supplies and assets out there in each classroom and administrative workplace, and implementing often up to date suicide prevention curriculum not less than twice a yr;
- Requiring up to date evidence-based and discussion-based psychological well being curriculum to foster a stigma-free setting;
- Utilizing trauma-informed curriculum to be aware and respectful when addressing the wants of scholars relating to consuming issues;
- Recognizing and respecting college students’ most popular pronouns and utilizing gender inclusive language in faculties;
- Requiring faculties and/or districts to supply scholar psychological well being check-ins that enable college students to precise their feelings and wishes confidentially not less than as soon as a month; and
- Scheduling time all through the day and yr to account for psychological well being and provides educational and transitional breaks.
“Our final objective is for change to occur,” mentioned JuLeah Edie, a senior at Rowan County Excessive College.
The scholars plan to current their findings on the Kentucky Normal Meeting’s Interim Joint Committee on Schooling this summer time.
“That is the start of many extra great items of bipartisan laws that we sit up for engaged on sooner or later and we are going to all the time heart our college students and ensure that their voices are elevated,” mentioned Coleman. “Whether or not it’s by way of state and native boards of election, legislative or govt branches, advocacy teams or crafting steerage and coverage language, we are going to deliver this work to life as a result of now we have to in an effort to help each Kentucky scholar.”
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Owner-trainer Juan
Muñoz Canó was suspended indefinitely by Kentucky racing authorities after
federal regulators said a horse who suffered a fatal breakdown in an October race
at Churchill Downs failed a drug test.
“The owner-trainer
license issued to Juan Muñoz Canó is hereby suspended pending his appearance
before the board of stewards for his alleged conduct against the best interest
of horse racing,” Kentucky stewards said Thursday in their written ruling. “During
his suspension, Juan Muñoz Canó is denied the
privileges of all facilities under the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Horse
Racing and Gaming Corporation. Entry of all horses owned or trained by Mr. Cano
is denied pending transfer to persons acceptable to the stewards.”
The case
against Muñoz Canó was opened Oct. 31 after La Bukana, whom he owned and
trained, suffered a leg injury that led to her being euthanized. Testing
revealed the banned medication clenbuterol was in the 2-year-old filly’s system
at the time of her death, according to the Horseracing Integrity & Welfare
Unit. Muñoz Canó was cited by HIWU on Dec. 20.
KHRGC did not
wait for federal wheels to turn. They voted 3-0 to suspend Muñoz Canó and
supersede federal rules that entitle Muñoz Canó to call for a second split
sample to be tested.
Muñoz Canó’s entry
Friday night at Turfway Park has been scratched, and the same is expected for
his three horses who were entered there for Saturday races. If Louisiana
stewards decide not to recognize the Kentucky penalties, he still would have
one horse on each of the programs Sunday and Thursday at Fair Grounds and two
more next Friday at Delta Downs.
Kentucky basketball has narrowed in on five-star Caleb Wilson (someone frequently mentioned on Here Comes the Boom) as its No. 1 priority left on the board in 2025. However, the 2026 class is expected to be a deep one and UK has already extended several offers.
Here Comes the Boom is back to predict where Kentucky’s top 2026 targets will land. Jacob Polacheck of KSR+ goes through each of Kentucky’s offers in the class and predicts where each player will commit.
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Kelsey Stuck will head to Lexington, KY, for her collegiate career after signing with the University of Kentucky. The backstroke/sprint freestyler will arrive on campus from Wilmington, NC, in the fall of 2025 as part of the Wildcats’ class of 2029.
Stuck competes for the Waves of Wilmington Swim Team and Hoggard High School. During her junior season for Hoggard, Stuck was a two-time finalist at the NCHSAA 4A State Championship, notching seventh-place finishes in the 100 backstroke and 50 freestyle. A week earlier, at the NCHSAA 4A Eastern Regionals, she won the 100 backstroke and was the runner-up in the 50 freestyle. She won both at the 2024 3A/4A MEC Conference Championship in January, helping Hoggard claim the overall title.
She most recently competed for the Waves of Wilmington at the 2024 Winter Junior Championships – East, where she logged season-best times in the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, and 200 backstroke. Her best finish was in the 200 backstroke, where her time of 2:00.50 earned 48th place.
Stuck swum all her lifetime bests in her primary events in 2023, though she’s been close to them on multiple occasions in 2024.
Best Times (SCY):
- 50 freestyle: 23.55
- 100 freestyle: 52.13
- 200 freestyle:1:54.35
- 100 backstroke: 54.87
- 200 backstroke: 2:00.01
The Kentucky Wildcats are in a rebuilding phase and are looking to rebound from a ninth-place finish at the 2024 SEC Championships. None of Stuck’s lifetime bests would have scored at the 2024 SEC Championships, a conference that’s only gotten more competitive with the Texas Longhorns arriving this season.
However, Stuck will be a strong addition to the Wildcats’ backstroke and sprint freestyle groups as the team looks to add depth. Her lifetime bests would’ve landed her in a tie for fifth on Kentucky’s 2023-24 depth chart in the 50 freestyle, fifth in the 100 backstroke, eighth in the 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke, and ninth in the 100 freestyle.
The Wildcats have had a busy season recruiting in the high school class of 2025. Stuck joins Arianna Wertheim, Elizabeth Summa, Hadar Karp, Ava Fuller, Zalika Methula, Abby Dunford, Charlotte Driesse, and Sarah Shaffer in signing on with the Wildcats’ class of 2029.
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