University of Kentucky Youth Development Website

Developed by Ken Jones to provide access to up-to-date information on youth development research, newsletters, and links to other youth serving organizations.

Contact: Ken Jones

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CLD/YD/YD_index.htm

Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL)
Provides teaching and learning resources for faculty in the College of Agriculture including a website identifying resources that faculty can look up for improving their practice; coordinating a college-wide advisory committee for teaching and learning issues; assisting the college in developing and coordinating workshops and conferences (e.g., our annual teaching workshop, NACTA Conference, etc…); and providing direction and coordination of an Academy of Teaching and Learning Scholars in the College.

Director: Tracy Kitchel

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CLD/CETL/

Kentucky Consortium of Community Leadership (KCCL)

Established in 2008, the Kentucky Consortium of Community Leadership (KCCL) was designed as a “one-stop shop” for all of your community leadership needs.  This website brings together the numerous resources that leaders need to be successful in today’s complex communities.

Contact: Kris Rickets

http://www.ca.uky.edu/kccl/#

Nonprofit Leadership Initiative (NLI)

The Nonprofit Leadership Initiative’s mission is to serve, support, and strengthen Kentucky’s nonprofit sector. As such, the Initiative provides programs and services that encourage nonprofit collaboration, effectiveness, accountability and innovation to strengthen Kentucky communities.
 

Contact: Danielle Clore

http://www.kynonprofits.org/

Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute (KECI)

The Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute combines leadership development with entrepreneurial coaching and advocacy that focuses on 19 tobacco dependent counties in Northeastern Kentucky and provides intensive educational experiences for 60 civic leaders who learn to coach individual entrepreneurs and work with others to stimulate entrepreneurial friendly communities.

Director: Ron Hustedde

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CLD/KECI.

Rural Families Speak. 

(The Rural Families Speak Project is a multi state longitudinal research project that focuses on assessing changes in the well-being and functioning of rural families in the context of policies that reform welfare.) 

Kentucky Project Contact: Patricia H. Dyk.

http://www.ruralfamilies.umn.edu/

The New Federalism: Confounding Effects of Devolution.
Lori Garkovich. Welfare Reform Information Brief. Number 4, August 1998. Southern Rural Development Center. (http://srdc.msstate.edu)
http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/reform.htm

Children and Poverty in the Rural South.

Rosalind P. Harris and Julie N. Zimmerman. SRDC Policy Brief. Nov. 2003, No. 2.  Southern Rural Development Center. (http://srdc.msstate.edu)

http://srdc.msstate.edu/publications/srdcpolicy/index.html