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With the Thanksgiving holiday quickly approaching, the Corbin High School Red Cross Club is hosting a Turkey Drive for the Cumberland River Behavioral Health (CRBH) and Capers Children Services families in Whitley, Laurel, Knox, Rockcastle, Jackson, Clay, Bell, and Harlan...

Kentucky has received $29 million in federal grants to support victims of crime, and $915,170 of that funding is going to local organizations. In total, 132 crime victim service providers have received funding this year through the federal Victims of Crime Act grant program,...

A local violence prevention program is hoping to spread their message through a group of artistic events and projects throughout Corbin and Williamsburg. Community Green Dot is a violence prevention program that teaches people how to do proactive and reactive green dots, said...

The Whitley County Health Department’s annual Child Abuse Prevention Walk in Corbin on Saturday sought to bring awareness to child abuse in the community. The walk is an annual event to build up awareness in the community that everybody has the ability to do something to help a...

A local community mental health agency is receiving nearly a quarter million dollars in funding to establish a crisis stabilization unit for those with substance use disorder in Corbin. On Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear along with the Office of Drug Control Policy (ODCP) and the...

A Corbin nonprofit organization that serves primarily pregnant and post-partum females with substance abuse issues is receiving $20,000 from the Team Kentucky Fund, which is closing after all pending applications have been addressed. Independence House is one of the 19 qualified...

Kentucky has received $37 million in federal grants to support crisis intervention services for victims of crime, and $1,082,985 of that funding is going to local organizations. In total, 133 Kentucky programs have received funding this year through the federal Victims of Crime...

The Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental, and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) has received a $7 million grant to support behavioral health services in the state’s Appalachian region following severe weather in 2019, which will include the community mental...

Have a little spare time on your hands? Bored sitting at home? Are your kids upset that they won’t get to participate in an Easter egg hunt this year due to social distancing restrictions because of COVID-19? If you answered yes to any of these questions, and I am sure several of...

Cumberland River Behavioral Health, the local Community Mental Health Center, has been providing mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual/developmental  delay services to residents of the counties of Bell, Clay, Jackson, Harlan, Laurel, Knox, Rockcastle, and Whitley in...