Substance Use Prevention and Recovery
Sustainable, Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Courtney Jenkins, Cathy Sparks, 4-H Agent
Active Living and Health Promotions General
Build Engaged and Empowered Communities – General
Health
Horticulture, Consumer and Home
The recent statewide needs assessment identified substance use prevention and recovery as the most urgent priority for Cooperative Extension. Moreover, substance use was the focal point of the CES Advisory Council Meeting in early 2019. Taken together, youth KIP survey data and data from the CES needs assessment demonstrate the need to address substance use prevention, recovery, stigma, and impact on families and communities.
- The prevention and/or reduction of substance use and its related consequences.
- Changed public perception of substance use via stigma reduction.
- Reduced stigma from local community members
- Increased Opioid Stewardship (less rx’ing by doctors, appropriate Rx disposal, drug takebacks, etc.)
- Delayed age of first use among Kentucky youth
- Increased knowledge of substance use prevention, addiction, and recovery (or related subject matter)
- Increased ability to use destigmatized language
- Improved social skills and/or self-efficacy in KY youth
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Audience: KY Youth and Recovering Adults
Project or Activity: Prevention Program
Content or Curriculum: Botvin Lifeskills, Adolescent Brain Health
Inputs:Coordinate with Herald Whitaker Middle School Staff
Date: Fall of 2023
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Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: T & C: The Choice is Yours
Inputs: Coordinate with Magoffin County High School Staff
Date: Spring 2023
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Project or Activity: 4-H Health Rocks
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Health Rocks
Inputs: Coordinate with elementary/Middle School Staff
Date: 2022/2023 School year
Audience: Addiction Recovery Mission
Project or Activity: Therapeutic Horticulture with East KY
Content or Curriculum: Home Vegetable Gardening and Master Gardener Curriculum
Inputs: Extension Staff, Extenison Resources, and Extension Volunteers
Date: Ongoing (2020-2024)