Kentucky Works Program
Article By: Tommy Wheatley, Kentucky Works Director
Newsletter | Jul 29, 2025
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 93 clients that are employed in the K-TAP Program. This is up 10 workers since the last quarter and up 43 form two quarters ago. Our Employment Specialists continue to follow up with each of these clients and track the hours they are working. We served 81 clients in the K-Tap program for the quarter ending June 30th, 2025. We placed 75 clients in the quarter. We served 343 KTAP clients for the fiscal year and placed 288 in employment opportunities.
- 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 551 clients for the SNAP program during quarter ending June 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 meeting 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 had our annual monitoring of the program from the state and the report was good with no findings
