2024 KyPolicy Conference
January 19, 2024
Lexington, KY
9 a.m. — 4 p.m.
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Panelists and Presenters
The Money Is There for a Budget that Delivers
Jason Bailey
Child Care in Kentucky: Recent Policy Improvements and the Looming Funding Cliff
- What Keeps Us Safe: Kentucky’s Incarceration Crisis and What Communities Really Need to Thrive
If Kentucky was a country, we’d be ranked seventh in the world for our incarceration rate. Decades of “tough on crime” legislation has created a mass incarceration crisis in our state. In this session, we’ll explore how we got here, why a punitive system is harmful to us all and research-backed approaches that actually keep our communities safe.
Location: The Bluegrass Ballroom
11:30 a.m. Lunch
Boxed lunches set up outside of The Barn. Enjoy some time to connect with your fellow attendees.
Location: The Barn
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Advocacy 101
For university students and those new to advocacy, this lunch session will set you up to start your own advocacy journey.
A set of box lunches will be set for you in the Bluegrass Ballroom
Location: The Bluegrass Ballroom
12:30 p.m. Keynote panel
KET’s Renee Shaw will moderate a panel on the power of the state budget to meet the needs of Kentuckians and build a prosperous commonwealth. It will include experts and those with lived experience discussing housing, education health care and other vital issues in the commonwealth.
Location: The Barn
1:30 p.m. Break
1:45 p.m. Breakouts
- Kentucky’s Urgent Need for Affordable and Safe Housing
Housing a human right, but affordable, safe and stable housing remains an urgent need across Kentucky. In this session, we’ll hear from advocates working on critical housing issues and discuss policy solutions at both the state and local levels.
Location: The Barn
- SEEKing Equity: How Inadequate School Funding Is Failing Kentucky Students
The funding gap between Kentucky’s wealthiest and poorest school districts is now worse than levels declared unconstitutional over 30 years ago. In this session, we’ll discuss school funding equity and hear from the Kentucky Student Voices Team, which is holding statewide community conversations to explore whether Kentucky is living up to its promise of a quality education for all students.
Location: The Bluegrass Ballroom
3:30 Adjourn
Scenes from the 2023 KyPolicy Conference
