An article in the Kentucky Lantern highlights a partnership between the University of Kentucky and a Louisville-based group designed to help children who’ve been terribly hurt. Reporter Sarah Ladd said the Kosair for Kids Center for Safe and Healthy Families at UK Chandler Hospital was founded last year with an aim of providing a safe place for kids who’ve been neglected or abused, sometimes sexually.
“We've all been in an ER, right? I mean, there's not a lot of privacy, so you're talking to a kid about a rape or an assault or something really, really horrible, and there's just not a lot of privacy. And it's also not really a place where you can offer wrap-around services.”
Ladd said the Kosair for Kids Center offers private, kid-friendly rooms and even therapy dogs
“Just coming in there and laying her head in the lap of a kid who needs to hold, you know, a comforting dog. And that that really helps. It helps to have someone who's never going to judge you, and there's never any pretense, and it's just love.
Ladd said children from across the state come to the Kosair for Kids Center for the sort of help that’s available in very few other places and organizers hope it serves as a model elsewhere.
