Podcasts about kentucky children

Dr. Sarah Critchfield discusses the evolving understanding of autism and how UK HealthCare and Kentucky Children's Hospital can help parents.

Dr. Colleen Cornelius from Kentucky Children's Hospital discusses test anxiety in children and how families can help kids manage stress related to tests.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 5, 2025) — It's hard to believe it's been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic officially arrived in the Commonwealth – but on Friday, March 6, 2020, Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed the state's first COVID-19-positive patient and declared a state of emergency in Kentucky. And that first case was tested and diagnosed right here at the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital. That day began a grueling, years-long grind for medical professionals across the state, the country, and the world. Hospital systems struggled to keep up with surges of severely ill patients coming through their doors. Shortages of personal protective equipment, ventilators, ECMO machines, inpatient beds, and even health care providers themselves led to a type of global health crisis not seen in more than a century.   In today's episode of Behind the Blue, you'll hear from eight longtime employees from the medical side of UK's campus, ranging from administrators to frontline health care providers to researchers. We asked them to reflect on those scary, early days of the pandemic, how it impacted their professional and personal lives, and some of the lessons learned from living through such a significant moment in history. Let's meet our guests for this oral history of the COVID-19 pandemic at UK and in the Commonwealth.   Jenn Alonso has been at UK HealthCare for 13 years and has worked in the medicine intensive care unit (MICU) as a registered nurse since 2014. As a MICU nurse, she works alongside a team of physicians, nurses, therapists and other providers to take care of some of the most critically ill patients who come to UK HealthCare. Alonso was working in the MICU the day UK's first COVID-19 patient was admitted and was directly involved in frontline care for the sickest COVID-19 patients day in and day out.   Kim Blanton, D.N.P., is the chief nursing officer for UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Blanton began her nursing career at UK in 1998 in the neuro-trauma ICU and worked her way up through several nursing positions, including rapid response nursing, working as a division charge nurse and managing the cardiovascular stepdown unit. After briefly leaving UK to help create and run an ICU at a local rural hospital, she returned in 2011 as a hospital operations administrator before becoming the UK HealthCare enterprise director for Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) and Quality and Safety. Blanton was serving in her IPAC role when the COVID-19 pandemic began and was instrumental in UK's COVID-19 response: She helped bring home UK students from abroad, called COVID-19 patients to help them navigate their care and quarantine, developed plans and processes for patient surges and PPE needs, and much more.   Kevin Hatton, M.D., Ph.D., is the chief medical officer for UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. An anesthesiologist by training, he earned both his medical degree and doctorate of philosophydegree from UK. Including his time in residency, Dr. Hatton has worked at UK HealthCare for 21 years, serving in a variety of leadership roles in anesthesiology in critical care medicineprimarily for neurology and cardiovascular ICUs. When the pandemic began, he was serving as senior medical director for critical care services as well as was interim director for ECMO services. Initially, Hatton's role focused on training and preparing the anesthesia critical care team to help provide care for non-COVID ICU patients, as much of the medicine ICU staff's time was spent caring for COVID-positive inpatients. ECMO, the highest form of life support, is a machine that takes over function of a patient's damaged heart and/or lungs by removing a patient's blood, oxygenating it, and returning it into the body. Though ECMO is used on a daily basis at UK HealthCare, its use skyrocketed during the pandemic as patients whose lungs were severely damaged by the virus needed this highest form of life support. As interim director for ECMO services, Hatton and his team had to rapidly develop protocols and processes to use the limited number of ECMO machines to help the most patients possible.   Ashley Montgomery-Yates, M.D., has been physician in the UK Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine since 2013. As a critical care physician, she works primarily in the MICU setting taking care of the sickest patients – people on ventilators, with multi-organ failure, post-operative complications, and more. In 2013, she launched UK HealthCare's ICURecovery Clinic, which helps patients who have been in the ICU navigate the follow-up care and resources they need to recover. At the time, UK HealthCare's ICU Recovery Clinic was just one of three in the nation. Montgomery-Yates is currently the senior vice chair for the Department of Internal Medicine. When the pandemic began, she had recently become the interim chief medical officer for inpatient and emergency services. In this role and as an ICU physician, Montgomery-Yates and her colleagues were heavily involved in the day-to-day care of inpatients with COVID-19. She was part of the team that launched UK's successful Mass Vaccination Clinic out at Kroger Field, and her ICU teams also helped guide the creation of UK HealthCare's brand-new MICU, which opened January 2024.   Meg Pyper is a division charge nurse with the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Emergency Department and has been with UK HealthCare Emergency Medicine since 2010. As a charge nurse, her role is like air traffic control for the ED — taking calls from EMS and local hospitals about incoming patients and transfers, determining what services that patient will need upon arrival, and notifying interdisciplinary team members to be prepared when those patients arrive. As a nurse, she was drawn to emergency medicine after seeing her favorite nurse mentors be “the calm in the chaos.” Pyper began in this role just weeks before the pandemic arrived in Kentucky, and she and her team were the first line of care COVID patients received when they arrived at UK Chandler Hospital.   Lindsay Ragsdale, M.D., is the chief medical officer for Kentucky Children's Hospital and chief of the Division of Pediatric Palliative Care. Since arriving at UK in 2013, she has worked to build a robust program that helps seriously ill young patients and their families by caring for them holistically – looking at their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, and helping them navigate the experience of being severely ill.  Ragsdale became the KCH CMO in 2021, right when the COVID-19 delta variant was beginning to affect children much more than previous variants had. She helped set up both the pediatric monoclonal antibody clinic that provided infusions to help protect high-risk pediatric patients, as well as the successful pediatric vaccine clinic, which provided COVID-19 vaccines for children in a playful, engaging environment.   Rob Sprang is the director of Kentucky TeleCare, a role he's held at UK since 1996. UK first began using telehealth services in 1995. Since then, telehealth has grown by leaps and bounds, but its use skyrocketed during the pandemic. Earlier days of telehealth were usually done facility-to-facility — however, the vastly improved technology and public acceptance of telehealth, along with new, more relaxed regulatory laws around its use has allowed telehealth to explode in popularity. When the pandemic hit Kentucky, Sprang and his team — along with countless ambulatory providers and staff – worked 24/7 for more than a week to get UK HealthCare clinics set up to offer telehealth so that patients could still see their providers without needing to go into the hospital or clinic. Telehealth was a critical element in helping to protect both patients and providers from potential exposure to COVID-19.   Vince Venditto, Ph.D., is an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the UK College of Pharmacy with a background in chemistry, drug delivery, and vaccine development. In the early days of the pandemic, his work in blood analysis – looking for biomarkers for cardiovascular disease in up to 1,500 samples at a time – was adapted to do mass testing for COVID antibodies as a means of diagnosis. After PCR tests became the gold standard for diagnosing the disease, his work shifted again — this time to working with local pharmacies for surveillance of COVID out in Kentucky communities. Post-COVID, this project has evolved to include other infectious diseases and inflammatory conditions, and it focuses on increasing access to health care through Kentucky's network of pharmacies. It also has a new name: Pharmacy-based Recruitment Opportunities To Enhance Community Testing and Surveillance (PROTECTS). Venditto co-directs this project along with Brooke Hudspeth, Pharm.D., an associate professor of pharmacy practice and science. Venditto is also part of The Consortium for Understanding and Reducing Infectious Diseases in Kentucky (CURE-KY), which fosters multidisciplinary collaborations to address the burden of infectious diseases in the Commonwealth and beyond. This consortium was built on the heels of UK's COVID-19 Unified Research Experts (CURE) Alliance, which was quickly assembled in 2020 to support a full range of COVID-related research. -- Behind the Blue is available via a variety of podcast providers, including iTunes and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK's latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. Behind the Blue is a joint production of the University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show's blog page.  To discover how the University of Kentucky is advancing our Commonwealth, click here.  

Bringing a baby into the world is often portrayed as one of life's happiest moments. While this is true for many, it's also normal to feel overwhelmed during the postpartum period. Mental health conditions are the most common complication of pregnancy and childbirth and affect 1 in 5 mothers/childbearing people (800,000 people) annually in the United States. This week Dr. Greg talks post partum mental health with Brittney Gray, Psy.D., assistant professor of pediatric psychology in the UK College of Medicine and psychologist with Kentucky Children's Hospital.

In this week's edition of Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine, Lindsay Ragsdale, M.D., chief medical officer for Kentucky Children's Hospital, discusses the importance of bringing your child in for regular well-child visits and keeping them up to date with vaccinations.

The holiday season, while joyful, can sometimes be a time of stress, meltdowns and disappointments. As parents, it can sometimes feel like we are spinning in circles trying to create the best holiday experience for our kids, family and self. Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Caitlin Allen, a licensed clinical psychologist who works with children and their families in Developmental Pediatrics at Kentucky Children's Hospital Richmond Road Specialty Clinics. She addresses a few challenges that many kids and families face during the holidays, and shares some tips for how to help children cope with the holiday season.

Even before heading homeward from the Annual Assembly, Dan and Sarah decided that we needed to do an episode about one of our favorite presentations, palliative home transports. So in this interview, Ashley Autrey from Children's Hospital New Orleans and Lindsay Ragsdale from Kentucky Children's Hospital bring it on home to you, our audience, sharing their wisdom and expertise about how to get some of our most complex and fragile patients out of the hospital, and what it means to honor death location preference.This episode also features some exciting new AI integrations because... why not, right, I mean everything else has AI in it now, so... Will Sarah and Dan be replaced by robots? Have the robots learned anything about palliative care? Tune in to find out!MaterialsThe Children's Hospital New Orleans home transport checklist, courtesy of Dr. Autrey

In this episode, Dr. Scottie Day, Chair, UK Department of Pediatrics & Physician in Chief, at Kentucky Children's Hospital shares insights into his career journey, pediatric physician shortages, pediatric mental health trends, and more.

A recent report by 2023 Kids Count Data Book studied how economic well-being, education, health and family support impacts a child's overall well-being, and how those impacts vary from state to state. So how does Kentucky rank? Not good, according to Scottie B. Day, M.D., Physician-in-Chief at Kentucky Children's Hospital and chair of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics. He talks with Dr. Greg about the commonwealth's overall rating of 40th.

Jack talks to Braxton Jones from 7 Brew coffee shop about their event and involvement with Kentucky Children's Hospital.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of Becker's Healthcare podcast, Dr. Scottie Day, Physician in Chief at the Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Healthcare discusses the shortage of pediatric specialists and ways in which the system can be improved.

This episode features Scottie Day, Physician in Chief at Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Healthcare & Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Here, he discusses trends he is watching in the pediatric space, what he is currently most focused on, advice for emerging leaders, and more.

This episode featres Laurie Kelley, Chief Philanthropy Officer at Providence. Here, she joins the podcast to talk about her role and accomplishments which include areas such as cancer and cardiac research as well as women and children's health.

This episode features Dr. Scottie B. Day, Physician in Chief at  Kentucky Children's Hospital, UK Healthcare. Here, he discusses how Kentucky Childrens' is addressing pediatrician shortages & increasing access to care, his focus on pediatric mental health & preventing child abuse, and much more.

Dr. Angela Houchin, a pediatrician at Kentucky Children's Hospital, joins us to discuss temper tantrums and how to prevent them.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (October 6, 2022) – The Trauma Program Office is part of the UK HealthCare Trauma/Surgical Services service line. The team provides the day-to-day administrative operations for maintaining the UK HealthCare Chandler Hospital Adult Level I Trauma Center and the Kentucky Children's Hospital Pediatric Level I Trauma Center. The program office operates in accordance with the specifications of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) national standards and criteria of the Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient. Its mission, vision and goals are focused on using UK HealthCare resources to promote excellence in trauma patient care for our Adult and Pediatric Level 1 Trauma Centers. Amie Peel and Baillie McCane both work in the UK Trauma Program Office, Peel as a Trauma Education Coordinator, and McCane as a Trauma Outreach Coordinator. On this episode of ‘Behind the Blue', they both talk about trauma preparedness, trauma care and injury prevention programs offered by their office, and some key tips on what people can do to be prepared for trauma care situations. ‘Behind the Blue' is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK's latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show's blog page. To discover what's wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (September 29, 2022) – A collaboration between Kentucky Children's Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center brings together the expertise of Kentucky's top hospital and one of the country's best children's hospitals to create one of the top pediatric heart programs in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. Entering its fifth year, the innovative Kentucky Children's Hospital Joint Heart Program follows the one-program, two-sites model, which means pediatric cardiology experts and a team of pediatric heart surgeons at Kentucky Children's Hospital benefits from the support of other pediatric heart specialists at Cincinnati Children's to provide a full spectrum of children's cardiology services. This collaboration provides Kentucky families with the reassurance of knowing they have access to exceptional heart treatment for children close to home. Dr. Carl Backer is chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and director of the Joint Pediatric Heart Care Program. Dr. Backer joins KCH from the Ann & Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, where he served as the surgical director of the pediatric heart transplant program and the A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery since 2001. He has been an attending surgeon in the division of cardiovascular-thoracic surgery since 1988, and served as head of that division from 2008 to 2018. On this episode of ‘Behind the Blue', Dr. Backer talks about the state of the program on its fifth anniversary, the importance of the program for the people of Kentucky, and more. ‘Behind the Blue' is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK's latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show's blog page. To discover what's wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.

NASN Executive Director Donna Mazyck discusses OTC medication administration with Dr. Tracy Perron PhD, RN, CNE, CSN, Associate Prof at the College of New Jersey & Sherri Hannan, RN, Safe Kids Fayette County Coordinator at Kentucky Children's Hospital.

Courtney Emery, a School Intervention Specialist, joins us to discuss the benefits of having a School Intervention Specialist for children with cancer or blood disease.

The Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center provides a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families. https://www.nkycac.org/

Dr. Dan Grantz- a Pharmacist with UK Healthcare- and Dr. Lindsay Ragsdale- the Interim Chief Medical Officer for Kentucky Children's Hospital- discuss the new UK Healthcare Pediatric Vaccine Clinic.

Dr. Majd Makhoul, Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program at Kentucky Children's Hospital; and Dr. Joshua Hayman, a pediatric cardiologist at Kentucky Children's Hospital, discuss Kentucky Children's Hospital's partnership with King's Daughters Medical Center to bring nationally ranked pediatric heart care to Ashland, Kentucky.

August is National Immunization Awareness Month and to commemorate the designation Dr. Greg speaks with Dr. Erich Maul, Chief, Division of Hospital Pediatrics, Medical Director, Acute Care and Progressive Care at Kentucky Children's hospital, and his 13 year old daughter Avery, who recently got her COVID-19 vaccination. Hear their stories in this week's edition of Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 15, 2021) – THIS EPISODE IS AN ENCORE EDITION. Medical trauma, the emotional and physiological reactions that many children with medical conditions and their family members experience, happens to millions of people and can cause a variety of adverse reactions, regardless of the severity of the medical condition being treated. On this episode of ‘Behind the Blue', Dr. Meghan Marsac and Melissa Hogan discuss their new book that addresses medical trauma, how to understand it and tips to overcome it. ‘Afraid of the Doctor: Every Parent's Guide to Preventing and Managing Medical Trauma' is the first book written for parents with the primary goal of equipping them with the knowledge and skills to support their children through medical challenges. The book will be available beginning July 16, 2021, and you can find more information here. Marsac is a pediatric psychologist and tenured Associate Professor here at the University of Kentucky and Kentucky Children's Hospital, with expertise in promoting adjustment and preventing post-traumatic stress in parents and their children with medical conditions. Clinically, she implements evidence-based practices to facilitate families' management of medical treatment and emotional adjustment to challenging diagnoses and medical procedures. In addition, Dr. Marsac specializes in training medical teams in the implementation of trauma-informed medical care. Hogan earned a Juris Doctor with a focus on health law from the University of Pittsburgh School of law, where she served as executive editor of the Law Review. She has worked as an attorney, a consultant on law firm strategy, and an adjunct professor of legal writing and health care regulatory law. Hogan is the mother of three boys, the youngest of whom was diagnosed with the rare disease Hunter syndrome as a toddler. Soon after her son's diagnosis, she began to blog about what she was learning and her family's experience with her son's condition. That blog connected her to a community of parents around the world whose children had Hunter syndrome or other chronic conditions. "Behind the Blue" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK's latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show's blog page. To discover what's wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 10, 2021) – Medical trauma, the emotional and physiological reactions that many children with medical conditions and their family members experience, happens to millions of people and can cause a variety of adverse reactions, regardless of the severity of the medical condition being treated. On this episode of ‘Behind the Blue', Dr. Meghan Marsac and Melissa Hogan discuss their new book that addresses medical trauma, how to understand it and tips to overcome it. ‘Afraid of the Doctor: Every Parent's Guide to Preventing and Managing Medical Trauma' is the first book written for parents with the primary goal of equipping them with the knowledge and skills to support their children through medical challenges. The book will be available beginning July 16, 2021, and you can find more information here. Marsac is a pediatric psychologist and tenured Associate Professor here at the University of Kentucky and Kentucky Children's Hospital, with expertise in promoting adjustment and preventing post-traumatic stress in parents and their children with medical conditions. Clinically, she implements evidence-based practices to facilitate families' management of medical treatment and emotional adjustment to challenging diagnoses and medical procedures. In addition, Dr. Marsac specializes in training medical teams in the implementation of trauma-informed medical care. Hogan earned a Juris Doctor with a focus on health law from the University of Pittsburgh School of law, where she served as executive editor of the Law Review. She has worked as an attorney, a consultant on law firm strategy, and an adjunct professor of legal writing and health care regulatory law. Hogan is the mother of three boys, the youngest of whom was diagnosed with the rare disease Hunter syndrome as a toddler. Soon after her son's diagnosis, she began to blog about what she was learning and her family's experience with her son's condition. That blog connected her to a community of parents around the world whose children had Hunter syndrome or other chronic conditions. "Behind the Blue" is available on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK's latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue. Transcripts for this or other episodes of Behind the Blue can be downloaded from the show's blog page. To discover what's wildly possible at the University of Kentucky, click here.

Dr. Carl Backer, Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery with UK Health, discusses the joint pediatric heart care program from Kentucky Children’s Hospital and Cincinnati Children’s.

Dr. Henry Iwinski, an orthopedic surgeon and Chief of Staff for Shriners Medical Center, discusses Kentucky Children’s Hospital and Shriner’s Hospitals for Children partnership to provide care to Kentucky’s kids.

Dr. Greg again talks with Scottie Day, physician in chief at Kentucky Children's Hospital about the American Academy of Pediatric's revised statement and guidelines on the reopening of schools this fall.

This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine the host talks with Dr. Scottie B. Day, physician in chief at Kentucky Children’s Hospital and president of the Kentucky chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatricians are stressing the importance of routine wellness visits for children during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mobility matters because it connects people. So, on this episode, we’re taking a look at the future of mobility, celebrating how innovative engineering is bringing people together, and even learning about a little bit of #loveatlexus. We start by talking to Dr. Gill Pratt and Eddie Alterman about Autonomy, the first comprehensive documentary that takes a deep dive into self-driving cars. Then Matt Kubarek shares how Toyota, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, and University of Kentucky Football are partnering to lift up kids, their families, and their spirits. Finally, we learn what happens when two Lexus dealership co-workers fall in love on the showroom floor.   Resources: Autonomy will be in theaters and on demand November 15th. Learn more on Twitter or Instagram.   This podcast is brought to you by Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (“Toyota”) and may not be reproduced or redistributed, in whole or in part, without prior permission of Toyota. The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the guest(s) and/or host(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Toyota. Please note that Toyota is not responsible for any errors or the accuracy or timeliness of the content provided. Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

For twenty years a cart full of kindness has been rolling through the halls of Kentucky Children's Hospital in Lexington. The idea, born from the mind of a wise little boy who was very sick. Jarrett Mynear was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer when he was just 2-years-old. He spent most of his life in and out of the hospital and while he always had plenty of visitors and toys in his room, he quickly realized that was not the case for many other children undergoing treatment in the hospital. Jarrett created Jarrett's Joy Cart to provide a little joy and brighten the day for others stuck in the hospital. Marvin Bartlett, co-anchor of the WDKY Fox 56 news was able to profile Jarrett and his Joy Cart two decades ago. In that time and over the years that followed a special bond was formed and Bartlett went on to write a book published in 2002 called “The Joy Cart.” With the 20th anniversary of Jarrett's Joy Cart, Bartlett has released a new expanded version of his first book called, “The Boy Who Delivered Joy.” Bartlett sits down with Uniquely Kentucky to talk about Jarrett and how as a journalist this one story about one little boy on a mission to spread kindness changed his life.

For twenty years a cart full of kindness has been rolling through the halls of Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington. The idea, born from the mind of a wise little boy who was very sick. Jarrett Mynear was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer when he was just 2-years-old. He spent most of his life in and out of the hospital and while he always had plenty of visitors and toys in his room, he quickly realized that was not the case for many other children undergoing treatment in the hospital. Jarrett created Jarrett’s Joy Cart to provide a little joy and brighten the day for others stuck in the hospital. Marvin Bartlett, co-anchor of the WDKY Fox 56 news was able to profile Jarrett and his Joy Cart two decades ago. In that time and over the years that followed a special bond was formed and Bartlett went on to write a book published in 2002 called “The Joy Cart.” With the 20th anniversary of Jarrett’s Joy Cart, Bartlett has released a new expanded version of his first book called, “The Boy Who Delivered Joy.” Bartlett sits down with Uniquely Kentucky to talk about Jarrett and how as a journalist this one story about one little boy on a mission to spread kindness changed his life.

Tom Jones is the CEO of Taper Roller Bearings, Evergreen Properties, and Hilltop Marine. Taper Roller Bearings has been a family company since 1972 offering 24-hour machinist who provides unmatched service through their Speed Program® with same-day manufacturing of assemblies. Tom has served as an honorary judge for multiple concours, he has raced in SCCA for over 3 years and participated in vintage events on tours in the United States and Europe. He’s served on the Classic Car Club of America as a national board Director and held the position of President in 2016 and 2017. He and his wife Connie founded and continue to Co-Chair the Keeneland Concours d’Elegance in Lexington, Kentucky, now in its 16th year, which benefits the Kentucky Children’s Hospital. Tom has served on the Lexington regional board of Central Bank, Advisory Board of The Reefs in Bermuda, the advisory board of the University of Arizona Department of Alternative Medicine, and the Hospice of the Bluegrass Board. 

The Child Life Program is a specialized service providing play opportunities for patients of the Kentucky Children's Hospital and their families. Play helps a child continue his or her normal growth and development and eases the stress families experience while the child is in the hospital.Jennifer Guilliams, Child and Family Life Coordinator for Kentucky Children’s Hospital (KCH) is here to discuss the UK Child and Family Life Program and how it helps patients and families navigate their hospital visit.

Jennifer Hancock, President and CEO of Volunteers of America Mid-States, helps us explore the world of non-profits and how millennials can give back to their communities. Ever want to get involved in your community but didn't know where to begin? Check out this episode to learn what you can do as a millennial to make a difference. Want to learn more about Volunteers of America? Join Paul and John at the Power of One Breakfast on October 11, 2017. Sign up at voamid.org. Giving Back to Your Community: Jennifer explains how she became involved in service work in high school and why it's so important to her. We learn Jennifer's path from direct service work as a counselor to becoming President and CEO of Volunteers of America. Volunteers of America (founded in 1896) is one of the most diverse service organizations in a region. It covers five states and has more than 600 employees. Helping military families, HIV, addiction, and more! Jennifer tells us what has made her stay with Volunteers of America for over a decade! Jennifer shares the heartbreaking story of how easy it is for a young professional to become addicted to prescription drugs. If you, or someone you know, has an addiction, you can seek help directly with Volunteers of America. She also shares the story of a young man who grew up in a Volunteers of America homeless shelter and went on to become extremely successful. Volunteers of America specifically makes it a point to add millennials to their Board of Directors, and even added it to their strategic plan. We also learn other ways millennials can become involved in nonprofits. If you feel like you can't make a financial gift right now, never forget the impact your time and talent can have on a nonprofit. Volunteers of America has a ton of great programs that allow millennials to get involved, learn more at voamid.org. If you're interested in leading a nonprofit, Jennifer suggests finding a mentor and reaching out (the worst they can say is no). Last call questions and answers: Best career advice: Don't be bashful, don't hold back, and don't be afraid of what people will think if you're assertive. "Lean In" What advice would your 60-year-old self give you today? You're not evaluated by your career success, but your success as a partner and a parent. Don't sacrifice family for work. Best thing spent money on the past 6 months: A recent Alaskan cruise allowed Jennifer to disconnect from the world and relax. Financial vice: Heine Brothers Coffee Financial advice: Save early for retirement. Nobody has ever regretted saving early for retirement. What media do you recommend: Hillbilly Elegy Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Special shoutouts and show notes: Louisville Pure Tap Water - in honor of National Recovery Month, we drank the best tap water in America for this episode. Center for Women and Families St. Joseph's Children's Home Rainbow Blossom Enjoyed this episode? Check out our discussion with another nonprofit leader, Ann Marie Kelly. Have any topics you want to be covered or amazing people you'd like us to interview? Let us know! You can email us at paul@drunkenmoney.com or john@drunkenmoney.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin. Please be sure to subscribe to our weekly mailing list at drunkenmoney.com/subscribe. More about Jennifer: Louisville, Kentucky native, Jennifer Hancock is the President and CEO of Volunteers of America of Mid-States. Jennifer earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Kentucky, where she developed the foundation for her career dedicated to social justice and serving those who most need our community’s support and advocacy. She has done that in multiple capacities over the past 20 years including the past ten years with Volunteers of America Mid-States.  Jennifer also operates a private practice in mental health counseling services and is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work. In addition to all of this, Jennifer gives her time as a board and committee member to Kentucky Children’s Justice Act Task Force, State of Kentucky Corrections Commission, The Leadership Louisville Center, Community Shield, and as an Advisory Council Member of Young Professionals Association of Louisville.