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Terry Brooks Steps Down, Calls for Child-Centered Change | Lexington News
Terry Brooks, the longtime face of Kentucky Youth Advocate, is stepping down after two decades of transforming the state’s child well-being rankings—from bottom forty to top thirty—while warning that the fight isn’t over, especially with rampant abuse and neglect. He’s now leading therapeutic and foster care efforts at Sunrise Children’s Services. His successor, Shannon Moody, vows to expand KYA’s impact by rallying communities and lawmakers. Brooks laments how political polarization has sidelined children’s needs, urging lawmakers to act on poverty, predatory lending, and kinship…
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