Category: Newsletter

The Senior Companion Program (SCP) is actively looking for volunteers and our numbers are growing!

Congregate Meals served over 1,600 seniors the month of October. Tuesday’s are now dine-in only this started in November. Congregate Meals now has dine-in and grab and go on Monday and Friday. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are dine-in only.

The seniors have been busy at the centers with activities. They have enjoyed making projects, cards, and playing bingo while being with their friends.

CKCATS provides non-emergency transportation for the following services: Medicaid, Medicare, General Public, Senior, Veteran, and Intercity. Services vary depending on the county.

Medicaid services are provided in Washington, Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion and Nelson counties. Medicaid hours are from 6am-8pm Monday-Friday and 8am-1pm on Saturdays. Exceptions may be made for urgent care trips only.

Medicare services are provided in Washington, Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion, Nelson, Hardin, Bullitt, Adair, Boyle, Taylor and Green counties. Medicare hours are from 6am-8pm Monday-Friday and 8am-1pm on Saturdays. Exceptions may be made for urgent care trips only.

General Public transportation is provided in Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion and Nelson counties. Hours of service are Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm only.

Senior transportation is provided in Washington, Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion, Nelson, Hardin, and Meade counties. Hours of service are from 8:30am-2pm only.

Veteran transportation is provided in Edmonson, Hart, Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion and Nelson counties. Hours of service are 6am-8pm Monday-Friday and 8am-1pm.

Intercity transportation is provided in the counties of Breckinridge, Grayson, LaRue, Marion and Nelson counties.

CKCATS had a virtual compliance review with the Office of Transportation on October 1st and a vehicle and facility inspection on September 23rd. Thanks to all staff who helped in getting information and who worked with us to make this compliance review a smooth process.

We had 2 new buses delivered on September 17^th. These were 8×2 narrow body buses. This is the first time that these have been ordered, but they mimic the older transit vehicles that we have in our fleet. These new buses will be placed in Marion and Nelson counties.

We are continuing to accept applications for hiring. If you or anyone you know would like to join the staff at CKCATS, please go to the link below to view or apply:

https://centralkentuckycommunityactioncouncilinc.applytojob.com/apply

 

 

 

 

November is here. Leaves have changed, we have had our first snowfall, and we are firmly beginning the holiday season. I know this is a challenging time for many in our community for various reasons. CKCAC is here to help you in whatever ways we can. Please do not hesitate to reach out.

On November 12^th, the Federal government officially reopened with President Trump’s signature. We are very thankful for our Congressional delegation for helping put an end to the longest Federal government shutdown in U.S. History. Unfortunately, we are not fully out-of-the-woods, yet. It will take a few weeks for the Federal government to re-open fully, so we are not sure when we will have our full grant awards. CKCAC is in constant communication with our contacts in D.C. and hope to have positive news, soon.

This is the time of year where we need to celebrate with each other and lean on each other a little bit more. We know that many families in Central Kentucky are struggling. Please remember that the LIHEAP subsidy window is open for applications. At our locations where we have food banks, we are distributing commodities as quickly and efficiently as possible. Please reach out to your local CSBG office if you need anything.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Central Kentucky Community Action Council Head Start and Early Head Start Will Pursue a Line of Credit to Maintain Normal Operations on November 1^st, 2025.

 

(Lebanon, Kentucky- October 28, 2025) Central Kentucky Community Action Council Head Start and Early Head Start (www.ckyhs.org) serves 400 children and families across six Kentucky counties (Hardin, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, and Washington). CKYHS is a federally-funded preschool program and the funding for operations ends October 31^st, 2025. With the federal government currently shutdown, there are no funds being awarded or released from the federal government for CKYHS to cover expenses beginning November 1^st, 2025.

At a special-called meeting of the Central Kentucky Community Action Council Board of Directors on October 27^th, the Board unanimously voted to allow the agency to pursue a line of credit to keep normal Head Start and Early Head Start operations until November 21^st. Central Kentucky Community Action Council is deeply thankful to Bobby Miles and People’s Bank of Lebanon for stepping up to support our agency in this time of need.

While this is welcomed news for the children and families of Central Kentucky, this is not a permanent solution. If funding is not restored by November 21^st, it is very unlikely that Central Kentucky Community Action Council Head Start and Early Head Start programming will continue. Our sincere hope is that the federal government re-opens, soon, so we can continue to fully support the children and families of Central Kentucky.

Please contact Bryan Conover (bryan.conover@ckcac.org) for any additional information.

 

 

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The Kentucky Works Program supports the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (K-TAP) and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the following Kentucky counties. Anderson, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Franklin, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble, Washington, and Woodford. Our goal is to assess these individuals to identify barriers, work to overcome those barriers to make them self-sufficient. We also have job readiness classes to help with resumes, job search, job interviews, etc.

·       We currently have 95 clients that are employed in the K-TAP Program. This is up 2 workers since the last quarter and up 45 from three quarters ago. Our Employment Specialists continue to follow up with each of these clients and track the hours they are working. We served 90 clients in the K-Tap program for the quarter ending September 30th, 2025. We placed 78 clients in the quarter.

·       On the SNAP Employment and Training program we continue to reach out to these clients and complete assessments when they are referred to us. We served 897 clients for the SNAP program during quarter ending September 30th, 2025.

·       We continue to stay in touch with employers and if we do get referrals, we match the clients skills with the employer needs to have a good match. We call new employers each week and keep a current job listing for each county we serve.

·       Our staff continues to stay in touch with staff meetings every other month, either in person or virtually to discuss all relative matters in the program.

·       We continue to offer a wage subsidy program where if an employer hires one of our K-TAP clients they will be reimbursed for a portion of their wages during the first six month of employment. We added two new wage subsidy contracts in the last quarter.

The new Hardin County Kitchen has been busy preparing meals for the seniors. Once our Nelson County Kitchen stops cooking then the new Hardin County Kitchen will be cooking for all 11 senior centers.

Now on October 2nd, NO grab and go meals on Thursdays. Dine-in only is now on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Dine-in is available Monday-Friday if your center is normally open except for the Radcliff Center and they may go to Griffin Manor to dine-in.

In October the meals served has dropped to around 1,700 previously the meals have been 2,100-2,200 a month ago.

The Elizabethtown Senior Center at Griffin Manor had a visit from KET to come and spotlight the center and interview one of our seniors. She did a great job telling why she comes to the center.