Lake Hill Oasis is a recovery center for people with addictions. When people enter the recovery center for the program they are often malnourished. The clients that stay there share close living quarters and share a kitchen together. The clients have to share the kitchen duties during their stay. There was great concern by the staff members of Oasis that the clients needed help in knowing how to handle, prepare and store food safe, so that the clients would not get sick.

The Nutrition Education Program Assistant for the Pulaski County Cooperative Extension Service offered to collaborate with Oasis and provide nutrition education to their clients. The Assistant went to Oasis and enrolled a group of men into the Nutrition Education Program and entitled the group "Lake Hill Oasis #3 Group". Upon enrolling the group she had them take a pre-test so she would know how to address their needs. She used the "Healthy  Choices for Everybody" curriculum from the University Of Kentucky to teach a series of lessons. These lessons addressed their nutritional and food safety awareness needs. When completing the lessons the assistant gave the clients a post-test to see if a positive change had been made. The results were amazingly good! Not only did over 1/2 the group show an improvement in their food choices, but an even greater impact was made in the area of food safety! 100% of the group showed improvement in washing their hands before preparing food, and over 75% of the group showed improvement in washing all items and surfaces after cutting raw meat or seafood, not thawing frozen food at room temperature and using a meat thermometer!