Podcast: Play in new window | Download (23.4MB) | Embed Since 1984, The Morton Center has specialized as an outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility that helps individuals of all ages caught in the throes of addiction – from those dealing with their own addiction to the family members of individuals who are struggling.
Category Archive: Friends & Neighbors
Kentuckiana This Week with Kris Daniels explores social issues facing our community and highlights individuals and organizations that are working on them.
Feb 01
Friends & Neighbors – Parents Left Behind
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (25.0MB) | Embed Parents Left Behind, Inc. was started in 2010 by Trisha Eskridge after her twin sons Carter and Caleb passed away. After finding a lack of resources for people struggling with the loss of a child, she began PLB to offer monthly support groups, online support communities …
Jan 01
Friends and Neighbors – City Life Shawnee
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (28.5MB) | Embed City Life is a relational, holistic community based outreach that desires to see deep change in the Louisville Shawnee neighborhood by raising up leaders from the young people in the community.
Dec 01
Kentuckiana This Week – Salvation Army
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (27.4MB) | Embed The Salvation Army Louisville’s local long-standing services include the Center of Hope, Transitional Housing for Families, Transitional Housing for Veterans, a Culinary Training Program, Disaster Assistance and more.
Nov 01
Kentuckiana This Week – Dare To Care
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (66.9MB) | Embed Dare to Care, Kentuckiana’s anti-hunger leader, was founded by this community after a 9 year old boy died of hunger in Louisville in 1969. Kentuckiana’s need for food assistance is at a historic high one in six Kentuckiana families needed Dare to Care’s help …
Oct 01
Kentuckiana This Week – C.H.O.I.C.E.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (28.6MB) | Embed C.H.O.I.C.E. Inc. was founded in 1987 as a comprehensive, community-based, non-profit organization that provides alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention and early intervention programs to youth and adolescents in Jefferson County Public Schools.
Sep 01
Kentuckiana This Week – Harbor House of Louisville
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (63.3MB) | Embed Harbor House was founded in 1992 by the parents of eleven men and women with mental retardation, developmental disabilities and brain injuries to create a safe and supportive environment in which their sons and daughters could gain the benefits of a regular job.
Aug 01
Kentuckiana This Week – St. Jospeph Children’s Home
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (70.2MB) | Embed St. Joseph Children’s Home has a mission: Giving Children a Home. One major source of fundraising for St. Joe’s is their annual orphan’s picnic. The picnic’s sole purpose is to raise funds for St. Joseph’s children. All proceeds that are raised with the Friday Night …
Jul 01
Kentuckiana This Week – Family Scholar House
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (71.5MB) | Embed Family Scholar House, Inc. is changing lives, families and communities through education. Their mission is clearly stated to be ending the cycle of poverty by giving single-parent students the support they need to earn a four-year college degree.
Jun 01
Kentuckiana This Week – St. George’s Community Center
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (73.2MB) | Embed For over 45 years, St. George’s Community Center (SGCC) has provided the Louisville community with innovative after-school and summer programming for middle and high school youth. Their mission is to launch youth in flights of self-discovery, while creating opportunities that will impact their lives for …
