Four days after seven of ten fulltime employees of Ampersand Sexual Violence Resource Center of the Bluegrass were suddenly fired, its executive director and board of directors still weren’t speaking publicly. Stephanie Theakston works for the City of Lexington’s Department of Social Services and is the program coordinator for the Lexington Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition. She said she learned about the firings from the former employees.
“Fayette County is a close-knit group of people and through the coalition, we have great communication with each other. So it was surprising to us that there was not a more thorough communication plan, or any communication.”
