Substance Use Prevention and Recovery
Nutrition & Health
Misty Wilmoth and FCS Agent
Substance Use Prevention and Recovery General
Family and Consumer Science
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
Outcome: Increased knowledge of substance use
Indicator: Number of individuals attending programs
Method: Retroactive pre-post
Timeline: Following every addiction 101 training
Outcome: Increased ability to use destigmatized language
Indicator: Number of individuals intend to change behavior
Method: Retroactive pre-post
Timeline: Following any program that includes language training.
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: T&C: The Choice is Yours
Inputs: Coordinate with LaRue County High School and Youth Service Center
Date: Fall
Author: Misty Wilmoth
Major Program: Substance Use and Mental Health – 4-H Youth Development
The LaRue County Cooperative Extension Service partnered with the Family Resource Youth Service Center to offer the Truth and Consequences program to all 195 LaRue County High School ninth graders in February 2022. District Court Judge Derek Reed spoke to the entire freshman class about issues related to drug use. Each student then drew for a scenario which took them to various stops in the high school gym. A "parent" volunteer accompanied them and helped to discuss c