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in 1980, LEX-18 spotlighted the first children awaiting adoption through Kentucky's Special Needs Adoption Program (SNAP) now named Kentucky Adoption Profile Exchange (KAPE). On September 27, 1989, Thursday’s Child, Inc. became a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. All board members are volunteers and all funds received are directed to support the waiting children in the KAPE program. The board’s mission is to recruit adoptive parents, support waiting children and provide post-adoption support. Over the 30 years of partnership efforts of Kentucky’s Special Needs Adoption Program, LEX18 and Thursday's Child we have facilitated over 2,000 adoptions successful adoptions.
For us to support our mission we must continue to have the support of businesses and individuals throughout the state of Kentucky. Thursday's Child, Inc, strives to meet the needs of waiting children and offer support to the families who adopt them by providing services not covered by the state. Some of the activities we have provided are KAPE/Thursday’s Child picnics and other matching events for waiting children and prospective families, special interest camps, educational grants for children exiting foster care, school and community activities for the waiting children that state monies will not fund, childcare for adoption support group meetings and workshops to support the caring families who adopt and love these children.
Through this website we want to offer you the opportunity to learn more about us and the children and families we serve. Please explore the site to learn more about how you can help, meet some of the children who wait and those who have achieved successes due to the support of Thursday's Child Inc. and people like you.
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Lydia Akin, President
KVC Behavioral HealthCare
Carrie Price, Treasurer
Key Assets Kentucky
Sharon Lawrence, Secretary
Owner Sharon Bradley Designs, Ret.
Lisa Fath, Vice President Resource Development and Financial Affairs
Director Little Miss Ky & Ky Royal Arts Runway
Tim Hodge, Vice President Community Awareness and Media Affairs
Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Kathy Palk, Vice President of Services for Adoptive Families
Fayette County Public Schools, Ret
Eric Minton, Vice President of Advocacy and Corporate Affairs
Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc. Ret.
Wendy Barnett
WEKU
Rhonda Bingham
Party With Rhonda
Tiffany Dail
Key Assets Kentucky
Tom Hammond
NBC Sports, retired
Tammy Jones
Tri-State Roofing & Sheet Metal
Ryan Lemond
Colwell Realty & Kentucky Sports Radio
Erin Mayhorn
UK College of Social Work
Joseph Mayhorn
Attorney Goldberg Simpson
Cameron Mills
Cameron Mills Radio
Nancy Newby
Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Amy Preston
UK Healthcare
Brandi Simon
Law Office of Brandi L. Simon, PSC
Virginia Smith
Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Ret.
Steve Steltenkamp
Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc.
Virginia Sturgeon
Department of Community Based Services, Ret.
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