Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Beverly Broadus, pictured, and Susan Kiningham, celebrated Juneteenth with the Bardstown community on Saturday, June 18. According to Beverly, the community event was a wonderful collaboration among St. Monica Catholic Church, First Baptist, and the AME churches in Bardstown. She and Susan shared LTCO with visitors.
Louisville Metro Government made official last week a language ordinance that requires all Louisville Metro offices to provide language access through interpretation and translation. While we don’t yet know to what extent our Language Services will be involved in the implementation of this, we know we will be.
Alisa Pifine, program director for Language Services, spoke at the ceremony, and Colin Triplett, program director for Migration and Refugee Services, attended the ceremony. You […]
Darko Mihaylovich resettled here from Sarajevo in 1997. He recently recounted his experiences while reflecting on the war in Ukraine in an interview with Ruby Thomas at The Record.
Welcome to a new weekly feature sharing what we did at Sister Visitor Center this week!
Here’s the report Spectrum News 1 did on Common Earth Gardens on Monday. We’re out to make you famous, Amir Hussein!
World Refugee Day 2022
World Refugee Day was a wonderful celebration of the families who have resettled here. We enjoyed great foods from around the world, dancing, a jump rope team, inflatables, pick-up soccer, and even some job recruitment. Here are some photos of the fun!
Three local television news crews covered our World Refugee Day celebration on Monday, June 20. You can watch the WDRB and WLKY reports here. The Spectrum News report has aired but is not yet posted.
Cydnei Dean has been named new director of Community Support Services. The program now includes the Father Jack Jones Food Pantry, Indigent Burial program, rapid rehousing for those exiting domestic violence or trafficking (in partnership with Saint Vincent de Paul Society), Hispanic Services, Family Services, and, of course, Mother-Infant Care classes and other mom-centric support groups. Congratulations, Cydnei!
Since June 2021, Bakhita Empowerment Initiative has been working on a large labor trafficking case with Rebecca Banks as the primary case manager. As we reach the one-year mark of case management services with these 10 individuals, we’re pleased to report that they all have become gainfully employed, have stable housing, have received temporary immigration relief, are pursuing long-term immigration relief, and have received substantial medical care and support.
Rebecca and Amy Nace-DeGonda have done a lot of work together to […]
