Success Stories By MajorProgram FY2025Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
Recovering Your Finances
Author: Heather Toombs
Major Program: Recovering Your Finances
Describe the Issue or Situation.Financial stress can put people in recovery from substance use disorder at risk for return to use, particularly during the early stages of recovery. This increased risk is partly because of the financial stress that people in recovery often encounter. Through comprehensive financial education training, we can expand the capacity of recovery centers and other partners in the community that work with individuals in recovery thereby reducing the likelihood of relapsi
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Recovering Your Finances (RYF) Curriculum Addresses Substance Use and Recovery Audiences (2025)
Author: Kelly May
Major Program: Recovering Your Finances
RelevanceThe University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service conducted Statewide Community Needs Assessments in 2019 and 2023 to identify and prioritize community needs, issues, and/or opportunities that could be addressed through targeted educational programming and engagement efforts. “Support for substance use addiction prevention/recovery” was among the top 15 priority issues reported statewide in 2019, and again in 2023. Undoubtedly Kentuckians have experienced incredi
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