Kentucky’s 2022 Youngsters Rely County Information E book highlights how the commonwealth has improved over the course of 5 years in areas affecting kids. The info additionally reveals the place the state nonetheless has room for development.
Standout tendencies from this yr’s findings embrace an elevated variety of Kentucky kids being positioned into foster care, although the variety of kids leaving through reunification with households decreased.
Gun deaths amongst kids 19 and youthful elevated by 83%, in comparison with a three-year time interval ending in 2015.
Youngsters Rely is a nationwide program that compares states to one another in a number of metrics for training, financial stability, well being and household and neighborhood.
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Kentucky Youth Advocates (KYA), which produces the Youngsters Rely, distills that information right down to a county-level understanding.
“It hopefully informs lawmakers in Frankfort, provides us a way of broad tendencies,” KYA Government Director Terry Brooks mentioned.
Extra kids are ending up in foster care, however fewer are being reunited with households
The variety of kids in foster care elevated by 12%, in comparison with baseline information from 2014 to 2016. The variety of kids launched from foster care by reunification decreased by 5%.
Brooks famous that the previous three governors have labored on little one reforms, however extra should be accomplished.
“I perceive that if we had not been doing the reform we’d been doing, these numbers would truly be worse, however we will’t take a look at the trajectory and never know that we’ve acquired to double down on efforts to help susceptible households,” Brooks mentioned.
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Brooks mentioned he hopes state lawmakers will have the ability to agree on coverage modifications on points associated to little one welfare. With out that, he worries extra kids can be separated from their households.
“That could be a coverage enviornment that we’ve seen widespread floor and customary sense utilized to,” Brooks mentioned. “It actually has been marked by an absence of partisanship.”
One metric locally and household class that improved was the variety of incarcerated youth, which fell practically 13%.
Brooks attributed this decline to understanding that diversion works higher than detention.
Enhancements in financial conditions
Childhood poverty additionally improved statewide, with decreases within the variety of kids dwelling in poverty and low-income households.
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In accordance with information from 2015, 25.3% of youngsters have been dwelling in poverty. Information from 2020 finds that has decreased to 19.4%. This disproportionately impacts youthful kids and youngsters of colour.
In that very same time interval, kids dwelling in low-income households dropped from 48% to 44%.
Poverty charges improved in 116 of the 120 Kentucky counties.
Brooks mentioned extra ought to be accomplished to verify the optimistic development doesn’t cease.
“So long as there are over 200,000 youngsters dwelling in poverty within the commonwealth, we will’t have a good time in any respect,” Brooks mentioned.
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Brooks mentioned addressing financial instability would assist this metric.
Modifications in different classes
Within the well being class, all statewide information both improved or stayed the place it was in earlier findings.
Charges for smoking throughout beginning and teenage being pregnant decreased statewide, although low birthweight infants and youngsters underneath 19 with insurance coverage remained the identical as 2015.
In training, there was a really small enhance of round 0.1% in highschool college students graduating on time. Nevertheless, the proportion of youngsters getting into kindergarten able to study decreased.
KYA’s finish aim for presenting the Youngsters Rely information is to spur lawmakers and different state entities into motion to make enhancements.
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“Now it’s as much as us to provide you with the methods after which to behave,” Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman mentioned at a information convention on Wednesday. “With out actions, all that is for naught.”
Coleman mentioned she hopes there can be bipartisan help for initiatives associated to childhood wellness outcomes.
Now that the ink has dried and his signing with Kentucky has been made official, Jasper Johnson was finally able to be formally introduced to the Rupp Arena crowd during the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night.
Johnson, a class of 2025 five-star point guard born and raised in Lexington, sat courtside with his family to check out his future team in action against the Hilltoppers. During the second half, former Kentucky player Ravi Moss brought out the future Wildcat to midcourt where he was met with a chorus of cheers from the packed crowd of Big Blue Nationites.
After initially committing to Kentucky back in September, Johnson signed the necessary papers to play his college basketball at UK earlier this month. He’s been inside Rupp Arena plenty of times before over the years (and even played here with Woodford County as a sophomore), but never while wearing street clothes as the center of attention in front of over 20,000 screaming fans.
The smile says all you need to know.
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Johnson is one of three signees from Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class as Kentucky’s head coach, joining four-star center Malachi Moreno and four-star point guard Acaden Lewis. The 6-foot-4 guard is ranked No. 14 overall in the nation by the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s currently finishing up his high school career at Overtime Elite as a member of Rod Wave Elite (RWE).
Alongside Tay Kinney, a talented class of 2026 guard who is also from Kentucky and is being recruited by Pope, the two Bluegrass natives form arguably the deadliest backcourt duo in all of OTE. Through five games played this season, Johnson is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.4 assists per outing while shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from deep.
This time next year, we’ll hopefully see him do the same thing in Kentucky blue and white.
Johnson family – Dr. Michael Huang, Kentucky Sports Radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rivalry week has finally arrived. The Louisville and Kentucky football program are set to do battle once again, facing off in Lexington for the annual Battle for the Governor’s Cup.
Here are the depth charts for both the Cardinals and Wildcats:
Changes from Louisville’s Depth Chart vs. Pitt:
Quarterback
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9 Tyler Shough (6-5, 230, Gr.) 10 Pierce Clarkson (6-1, 190, R-Fr.) OR 15 Harrison Bailey (6-5, 230, R-Sr.) OR 12 Brady Allen (6-6, 220, R-So)
Running Back
25 Isaac Brown (5-9, 190, Fr.) 21 Donald Chaney Jr. (5-10, 210, R-Jr.) 26 Duke Watson (6-0, 180, Fr.) 22 Keyjuan Brown (5-10, 210, R-Fr.)
Wide Receiver
0 Chris Bell (6-2, 220, Jr.) 81 Cataurus Hicks (5-10, 180, R-Fr.)
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