UofL to end partnership with nonprofit Family Scholar House

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The University of Louisville plans to cut ties with Family Scholar House this summer.

The nonprofit partners with the university's College of Education and Human Development.

UofL has overseen management of the Early Learning Campus, which provides care and early learning for children ages six weeks to four years old, according to our partners at Louisville Business First.

But, due to budget constraints, the university decided it can no longer sustain its management or its partnership with Family Scholar House or the Early Learning Campus.

"This decision was not made lightly. UofL and Family Scholar House have enjoyed a strong partnership that has resulted in extraordinary childhood education and care for many area families over the period of nearly two decades," said UofL Provost Katie Cardarelli and Tabitha Grier-Reed, dean of the College of Education and Human Development, in an email Monday.

"Family Scholar House remains steadfast in its mission to serve low-income families and is working to secure a new partner to carry this important work forward in its current space. The university is deeply supportive of this effort."

According to LBF, FSH pays $85,000 annually for 38 of the center's 130 children.

Family Scholar House launched in 1995 as Project Women to help single mothers in crisis achieve self-sufficiency through education. The nonprofit changed its name in 2008 and built its first campus near UofL.

The Family Scholar House includes 56 apartments, the Owsley Brown Frazier Academic Services Center and the Early Learning Campus. It also has five campus locations across Louisville.

This story may be updated.

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