Statistical Contact Report for FY2024Jul 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024

690261.3

Total Hours

Contributed.

3283824

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

6715.2

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

154893

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

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B.A.R.N. Farm Dinner Theater

According to the 2022 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 7.3 million rural adults reported having a mental health challenge. Suicide rates in Kentucky and our nation have continued to rise since 2003. In general, Kentucky suicide mortality rates are 17% to 27% higher than those in the rest of our nation. People are dying by suicide more frequently in Kentucky. Due to these alarming statistics, the eight-county northern Kentucky area family and consumer sciences agents prov...

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B.A.R.N. Farm Dinner Theater

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Vicki
I am a graduate of Murray State University with a BS and MS is Agriculture.  My husband and I reside in Dixon, KY with our two daughters.  I began as the ANR extension Agent in Webster Count... More

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