Food Income Assistance:
Food Stamps
L&N Building
908 W. Broadway
Louisville, KY 40203
Ph: 502-595-4238
Website: http://chfs.ky.gov/dcbs/dfs/foodstampsebt.htm
Services: Food Stamps
Eligibility: Any household meeting basic income
and other requirements may be able to receive food benefits.
Fee: NONE
*If you are having trouble reaching the L&N
Building and are looking for some specific help in your local area
please refer to the Neighborhood Places or call 311 to find your local
Neighborhood Place.
Handicapped/Physically Challenged:
One of our biggest tasks is to identify those persons in our community and make them welcome in our church.
The Cain Center for the Disabled, INC.
924 East Liberty Street
Louisville, KY 40202
Ph: 589-3030, 9:00am-5:00pm
Services: Provides independent and accessible living for the physically disabled and handicapped.
Eligibility: Handicapped
Fee: Varies
Cedar Lake Lodge, INC.
3301 Jericho Road
LaGrange, KY 40031
Ph: 222-7157 (24 hours)
Services: provides home-like residential care for mentally retarded, developmentally disabled persons, along with comprehensive services.
Eligibility: At least 18 years old, significantly mentally retarded/ developmentally disabled and must be established that they could benefit from placement.
Fee: most are covered by Medicaid/Medical Assistance, sliding scale for private pay
Center for Accessible Living
305 West Broadway Suite 200
Louisville, KY 40203
Ph: 589-6620, 8:30am- 5:00pm
Services: Information and referral services, independent living skills training, legal rights, housing, attendant care, ramps and home modifications, technical assistance and counseling.
Eligibility: Income eligibility for attendant care and ramp builders program.
Fee: None
Cerebral Palsy K.I.D.S. Center
982 Eastern Parkway
Louisville, KY 40217
Ph: 635-6397
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Services: Multidisciplinary approach to infant and early childhood development for children at risk of developmental delays.
Eligibility: Any child from birth to 6 years of age who is developmentally delayed due to any type of neurological dysfunction. Contact Intake.
Fee: Sliding Scale, does accept passport
Chapel House
Christian Church Campus of Louisville
945 South Fifth Street
Louisville, KY 40203
Ph: 502-585-5656
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Services: Provides housing for elderly and handicapped.
Fee: Flat fee or Section 8
Community Living, INC.
333 Guthrie Street Suite 308
Louisville, KY 40202
Ph: 585-5272
Hours: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Services: Provides community residential services to mentally retarded children and adults in order to enable individuals to remain in the community. Individual and group living arrangements.
Eligibility: Mentally retarded.
Fee: sliding scale
Exceptional Equitation
2107 Massie School Road
LaGrange, KY 40031
Ph: 222-8762
Hours: hours depend on the program.
Services: Horseback riding lessons for persons with disabilities. Vocational training for schools.
Eligibility: Persons with disabilities ages 6-60. Must have physician consent form.
Fee: $12/Lesson, $3 per person for field trips. Scholarships available.
Louisville Deaf Oral School
414 West Ormsby Avenue
Louisville, KY 40203
Ph: 636-2084
Hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Services: Educational intervention for the hearing impaired child. Provides audio logical counseling, speech and language therapy, counseling for parents, preschool program and parent infant program.
Eligibility: Any child with a hearing loss that requires amplification.
Fee: Tuition based on sliding scale
Louisville Diversified Services
410 West Chestnut Street Suite 900
Louisville, KY 40202
Ph: 581-0658
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Services: Provides job training, placement and support for mentally retarded persons.
Eligibility: Mentally Retarded.
Fee: Sliding Scale
Recording for the Blind
240 Haldeman Avenue
Louisville, KY 40206
Ph: 895-9068
Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday 8:30 a.m. - noon.
Services: Provides taped textbooks to the blind or those who cannot hold a book.
Eligibility: Submit application.
Fee: Varies Depending on services
Health Insurance:
Kentucky Children’s
Health Insurance Program (KCHIP)
Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Department of Community Based Services
L&N Building
908 W. Broadway
Louisville, KY 40203
Ph: (877) KCHIP-18 (877-524-4718)
Ph: (877) KCHIP-19 (877-524-4719) for the deaf
and hard of hearing.
Ph: (877) 662-5397 if Spanish language services
are needed.
Website:
http://chfs.ky.gov/contact/
Services: The Kentucky children’s Health
Insurance Program (KCHIP) is free or low cost health insurance for
children.
Eligibility: KCHIP is for children under the age
19 who do not have health insurance and whose family income is below 200
percent of the federal poverty level.
Fee: NONE
*If you are having trouble reaching the L&N
Building and are looking for some specific help in your local area
please refer to the Neighborhood Places or call 311 to find your local
Neighborhood Place.
Medicaid
Cabinet for health and Family Services
Department of Community Based Services
L&N Building
908 W. Broadway
Louisville, KY 40203
Contact:
http://chfs.ky.gov/contact/
Services: Medicaid is a program for families and
individuals who have income and resources within the established
guidelines. Eligibility: Anyone who qualifies. Go here to learn how to
apply:
http://chfs.ky.gov/dms/Eligiblity.htm
Fee: NONE
*If you are having trouble reaching the L&N
Building and are looking for some specific help in your local area
please refer to the Neighborhood Places or call 311 to find your local
Neighborhood Place.