Substance Use and Mental Health – 4-H Youth DevelopmentMajor Program

1612

Total Hours

Contributed.

19533

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

22

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

984

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of individuals who reported an increased knowledge of substance use prevention, addiction, and/or recovery (or related subject matter)

8753

Number of individuals who reported an increased ability to use destigmatized language

1141

Number of individuals who adopted/implemented strategies focused on substance use prevention and/or recovery

1923

Number of youth who experienced improved social skills and/or self-efficacy

7550

Number of individuals who reported intended behavior change as a result of participation in substance use prevention and/or recovery programming

2227

Number of individuals who gained increased knowledge of how to respond to mental health concerns

4631

Stories

KiND LiPS

“KiND LiPS” Program High school teens tackle anti-bullying education in a new light. Forty high school members of STAND (Student Teaching Against Negative Decisions) partnered with KiND LiPS in the Classroom to education elementary youth on the value of the simple act, kindness. STAND members planned an elaborate educational program that reached every third-grade student in the Muhlenberg County School District. The program was designed to cultivate a kinder, more connected climate in both the ...

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KiND LiPS

Stories Behind the Numbers

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid

    The mental health in youth and young adults has been an unspeakable topic for years until of recent many in Eastern Kentucky. The past several years for the youth, young adults, and basically everyon... Read More

  • Health Rocks Mentorship Program

    Using the 4-H Health Rocks Curriculum, 18 Nelson County High School students were trained to mentor Old Kentucky Home Middle School students on substance use and prevention. The high school students w... Read More

  • Health Rocks

    According to (NIH) the National Institute of Drug Abuse website, statistics for 2022 showed twelve percent of eighth graders, twenty-point-five percent of tenthgraders, and twenty-seventy point three ... Read More

  • Truth & Consequences

    Data from the last decade (The Recovery Village) shows rates of middle school substance abuse and addiction in kids as young as 11 or 12 years old have swelled across the United States. In 2015, more ... Read More

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