consent decree.

Ahead of each Kentucky legislative session, Kentucky youth advocates releases data on the welfare of Kentucky's kids.

>> The goal of that data to lobby for Kentuckians too young to vote.

>> We know kids don't have political action committees.

They don't have campaign money to spend to influence the agenda in Frankfort.

>> And that's what today is about.

Bring in folks from all over Kentucky all over Kentucky to come together and talk about what we expect from our lawmakers when that opening gavel falls in 2025. to improve the lives of boys and girls all over the state.

>> Talk about it stays in Syria people's lives.

We have a >> it does priorities.

The one that just jumps out at me because it's such an urgent issue is around schools.

Abuse.

One of the patterns that has emerged in Kentucky.

Is that employees of schools.

Who are under investigation for abuse.

They cut a deal.

I'm going to resign.

If you stop the investigation.

And then what happens is that employee moves right down the road to the next school system.

And it's a Graham, Paul.

I want to make sure that my granddaughters and grandsons, we are not going to a school where somebody skated from the law just a year ago.

We know that in the environment in which we live.

It is very easy to be cynical isn't about Frankfort.

Nothing's getting done.

They don't care.

We actually see a very different landscape.

We do think that those folks, our Brian Common sense, common ground solutions for the common good of Kentucky's kids.

That's what today is about.

That's what the blueprint for Kentucky's kids is about.

>> A stand Noma is the premier of the Bay area is the word is the same strategy times and we can expect over time to work for >> So whether it's housing, insecurity.

Child welfare.

Education, policy, early childhood juvenile justice.

We know that the 2025 General Assembly, it can make a difference for kids if they will have the courage and the commitment to do so.

>> Brooks said that over the past 10 years, Kentucky has seen a 48% decrease in the rate of child abuse and neglect in