Are you looking for a community interest group in Perry County? The following is a list of groups, and what they are about.
Appalachian Arts Alliance
The Appalachian Arts Alliance promotes creative expression and coordinate artists and upcoming events!
Galen College of Nursing
At Galen College of Nursing, nursing is all that we teach. Your success is all that matters. It’s a unique educational experience we call Pure Nursing. Our knowledgeable and caring faculty and staff take personal interest in helping you achieve your goals. What’s better is that your hands-on clinical training begins in weeks, not months and general education requirements are included in the nursing curriculum, so no prerequisites are necessary to start your nursing education.
Hazard Community & Technical College
Hazard Community and Technical College offers educational opportunities to 4,000 students in numerous program areas and includes five campus locations—Hazard Campus, Technical Campus, Lees College Campus, Knott County Branch and Leslie County Center. Students earn associate degrees, diplomas and certificates at the two-year college that is fully accredited.
Hazard Kiwanis Club
A group of volunteers dedicated to improving the lives of children and our community by various volunteer activities. O
Hazard and Buckhorn Area Lions Clubs
Lions Club Objectives: TO CREATE and foster a spirit of “generous consideration” among the people of the world through a study of the problems of international relations. TO PROMOTE the theory and practice of the principles of good government and good citizenship. TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, social, and moral welfare of the community. TO UNITE the members in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding. TO PROVIDE a forum for the full and free discussion of all matters of public interest…partisan politics, and sectarian religion alone excepted. TO ENCOURAGE efficiency and promote high ethical standards in business and professions; provided that no club shall hold out as one of its objects financial benefits to its members.
Hazard Rotary Club
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society; THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life; FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Hazard Shrine Club
One goal is to locate children needing medical care and get them partnered within our health care system. We support one of the finest networks of medical expertise in the country.
Hazard-Perry County Women’s Club
The Hazard-Perry County Women’s Club works to make the community better.
Housing Development Alliance
The mission of the Housing Development Alliance is to strengthen our communities through creating high quality, long lasting, affordable homes.
Incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993, the Housing Development Alliance serves as lender, counselor, developer, and contractor for low-income persons in need of housing assistance.
Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s states her Imagination Library program is one of the most important ways she knows to improve the educational opportunities for children in your community.
InVision Hazard
An open citizens action group with a focus on developing a vibrant downtown Hazard, and welcomes any and all community members to join meetings and get involved in their projects, because ALL are stakeholders, and maybe YOU have the skills, ideas or talent that are needed!
Kentucky River Community Care
KRCC is a nonprofit Community Mental Health Center dedicated to improving the health and well-being of the people of our region. We help individuals and families in the eight counties of the Kentucky River region by providing, Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Substance Abuse and Trauma Services. KRCC seeks to promote public safety, boost economic well-being and improve community and individual quality of life.
Pathfinders of Perry County
Promoting community well-being, engagement, outdoor recreation, and education.
Public School Systems
Hazard Independent Schools
Perry County Schools
Service Providers
Electric Services
Natural Gas
Water & Sewer
Perry County Water & Sewer
Local Airports
Agricultural Services
Perry County Cooperative Extension Service
Senior Citizens
Senior Citizens Center
Television Stations
WYMT – TV Channel 57
“We’re your mountain television”
Radio Stations
WSGS FM (101.1), WJMD FM (104.7), WKIC FM (97.9) & WZQQ Radio
AM (1390)
WLZD FM (106.1) Classic Rock
Newspapers
The Hazard Herald
UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center
UK North Fork Valley Community Health Center is a joint venture between the UK College of Medicine and the North Fork Valley Community Health Center board. It is the first community health center in Kentucky to be affiliated with a university and family medicine residency training program. It is located in Hazard, Ky., at the UK Center for Excellence in Rural Health-Hazard.
University Center of the Mountains
The University Center of the Mountains (UCM) is a dynamic consortium of postsecondary educational institutions bringing more bachelor’s and master’s degrees and educational opportunities close to home in southeastern Kentucky. The partnership will add other universities and colleges to deliver more advanced degrees based on student, employer and community demand.
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The Purpose of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, and educational; to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members; to assist worthy comrades; to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead; and to assist their widows and orphans; to maintain true allegiance to the government of the United States of America, and fidelity to its constitution and laws; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the institution of American freedom and to preserve and defend the United States from all her enemies, whomsoever.