LEXINGTON, Ky. — A group of Fayette County Public Schools students earned recognition from the Kentucky Association for School Social Work during the organization’s fall conference Sept. 17-18 in Louisville, according to FCPS. The students serve on the board of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, an independent youth-led organization dedicated to creating more just and democratic schools and communities across Kentucky, which received the Friend of School Social Work award for an organization.
Honorees from FCPS included Kavira Deborah from Bryan Station High School; Ezra Anglin, Caitlyn Douglas, and King Xavier El-Amin from Lafayette High School; Etornam Akafuah, Landon Guise, Ismail Khan, Caroline Segebarth, Saachi Thomas, Anvi Vaish, and Shiva Vaish from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School; Bridget Butler, Lucy Carter, Maggie Donworth, and Mercy Romans from Tates Creek High School; and David Sun from Winburn Middle School. Two 2026 graduates, Innaree Khejaranan of Dunbar and Danielle Chivero of Tates Creek, also remain active with the voice team.
In addition to the student honorees, Joanne Kruer, a recent FCPS retiree, received the Friend of School Social Work award for an individual. According to her nomination, Kruer made significant efforts to ensure FCPS students experienced smooth transitions to and from The Ridge, a hospital setting, by coordinating admissions and discharge information with school support personnel to help students return to school with proper support.
The conference’s theme was “Voices of Victory: Empowering School Social Workers to Rise, Overcome, and Thrive.”
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This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from Fayette County Public Schools. The original source is available at https://www.fcps.net/post-details/~board/fayette-county-public-schools-news/post/friend-of-school-social-work-honorees-from-fcps.
