Well, thank you.

That was the message today from Kentucky's Family Resource Centers and youth service centers to lawmakers in Frankfurt for their continued support.

We talk to the people who work at these centers about their work and keeping kids in Kentucky in school.

Family resource Centers are in elementary schools and they still serve students and families, but the focus is more on families.

So they're a family resource center.

Youth services centers are in middle schools and high schools.

We again, still serve students and families, but the focus is a little bit more on the students.

So our components look a little bit different.

We help provide things.

Anything that keeps a child from attending school.

We try to eliminate the barriers with clothing, food and help them with college preparation and especially at the high school level.

We offer many different programs, fast food programs.

We continue to address chronic absenteeism in school and mental health and social emotional learning for our students.

With our family resource use service centers, I think that our students, our staff, our families, I think they wouldn't know what to do or where to go.

You know, we're some of the only people that has a lot of contact with a student that knows where they come from and what they have to go through.

We wear many hats, but mostly we just love our kids and want to see them succeed.

These centers, sometimes called Friskies, have been in Kentucky since 1990 with the formation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act.

Kentucky now has 887 of them.