A Kentucky nonprofit, has launched a program aimed at supporting community leaders and professionals as they work to make their communities healthier.

Thrive Kentucky is hosting in-person meetings to keep communities informed about policy decisions that may affect them.

Health is as.

Important to your ability to thrive.

As housing, as access to food.

As your.

Economic prospects.

Your ability.

To get mental health.

Support if.

You need it.

And affordable housing, all of those things are all very intertwined.

And they provide they're essential to providing a safety net for, for Kentuckians.

So we're really trying to, make sure that we.

Distill a lot of really complicated.

Policy information.

Right?

A lot of these policies are really technical.

They're really.

Easy.

And the way that we talk about them is often.

Very siloed.

Off.

So we're talking about health care in one area.

And we don't talk about Snap or we talk about Snap, but we don't talk about housing.

We talk about housing, but we don't talk about.

And all of those.

Things are so intertwined.

So we really tried to come together and coalesce.

This into.

Here's a 90 minute virtual session where we'll give you.

All of the policy updates.

But the in-person.

Programing, it's a little bit, because.

There's a little bit more.

Space that's.

1 to 4:30 p.m.

this year.

So it's 3.5.

Hours.

Of both advocacy training.

We do like civic engagement.

And then we also have conversations.

We're hearing a. Lot of confusion and concern, about the changes related to the one big beautiful Bill act.

And like, I said.

We are trying to.

Come in and provide some.

Clarity around what.

Is changing and what you can do about.

It.

We're really tracking.

Medicaid changes and the marketplace changes.

Those big changes.

Are coming in October and January, but they're going to be.

Significant program changes that impact up to 400,000 Kentuckians.

Directly.

So we break down, you know, eligibility for Snap for Medicaid, for, child care systems.

All of that has changed quite a bit.

And so a lot of what we like.

To do from our riches and from our virtual programs.

Is to fill some of those big questions.

And that's big policy changes into one page explainers, as simple as we can get it into just a handout that, a handout explaining exactly what is changing, what's coming, what you need to know about it and what to do about it, and that that's.

One of our most popular.

Things that we.

Put together.

And those resources.

Are, I think.

Are a very tangible thing that you can walk away from our show with Electively.

We're in this together, learning this together, and that.

Also builds the capacity to be able to advocate.

Together.

We know how these policies are going to impact our folks on the ground better than anyone else.

And part of our roadshow is really leaning into empowering that you are an expert in your experience.

You are an expert in your community, in your own right.

You do not need to rely on us for, you know, for to be an advocate.

But we can give.

You the information that you.

Need to help.

You feel more confident to reach out to your legislator.

Their next in-person session is July 14th and Corbin, followed by three more events across the state.