Author: Karen Denniston
Planning Unit: Bourbon County CES
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Plan of Work: Wellness Education
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
The Beyond program is a partnership between Extension Family and Consumer Sciences and the Kentucky Drug Court in Bourbon, Scott and Woodford counties. The formation began in January of 2019. The purpose Beyond is to provide research based educational information to support people in recovery. The name “Beyond” refers to the life beyond addiction and the transition to improve quality of life post recovery. The partnership with Extension was an obvious choice in offering the participants information on mindfulness, financial stability, nutrition, food preparation, parenting skills, the importance of regular physical activity and general life skills. All of this information was presented in positive, honest, and non-judgmental environment. The statistics of this program are yet to come; however the real success story here is the partnership with the Court System in addressing local community issues with research bases information and curriculum.
One female participant did make the comment “I so wish this had been offered earlier in the Drug Court system. I think it would have prevented some of my ‘slip ups’”. This young lady obvious sees merit in the information being offered.
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