Don't forget to like, share and subscribe! Cervus heburus and other crecorded Let's walk along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus We are walking along the Cervus heburus Good morning. Chair Dr. Stephanie Raglan. Present. Vice Chair Tara Stanfield. She's on the way. Kimberly Beard. Sierra Bowman. Present. Commander Matthew Greathouse. Mr. John Moses. Here. Miss Connie Neal. Miss Margaret Pesciano. Here. Mr. Dale Sanders. Here. Dr. Matt Webster. Here. Dr. Mark Woods. Here. Miss Laurie Brock. And Miss Angela Evans. We have a quorum. Thank you so much. Thank you Carmen. Before you we have the agenda for the day and we do have a very robust agenda and so I'd ask that we would look at the agenda and I'll receive adoption of that agenda for today. Motion to approve the agenda. Second Dale Sanders. First John Moses. Amen. I said amen. I forgot I'm not in church, right? All right. The motion has been made and seconded. Are you ready for the question? All those in favor of the approval of the agenda vote by the sign of aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Motion carried. All right. Thank you so much. In front of us we do have the minutes from our last Opioid Abatement Commission meeting. And so I want to take the time now, if you have not already, to go over the minutes. All right. All right. Mark Woods, make a motion to approve the minutes. All right. Is there a second? Bowman seconds. All right. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Those opposed have the same right. Motion carried. Thank you so much. The executive board met on December the 5th. And we had a very good meeting on that particular day discussing the works of our two work groups that we have put together. And during that time we talked about the meeting that was discussed, that was had with our chairs, John Moses and also Sierra Baldwin. And just talked about how well that meeting went and that most of their questions that they asked as far as their roles are concerned were answered during that meeting. Again, that it was very advantageous to have John and Sierra in our executive board meetings on a regular basis so that they can be abreast of the discussions that are had there. We talked about the reception that was just had on this past week, and I'm sure Carmen's going to talk a little bit more about that in a minute. And we talked a lot about having folks to come and to present. One mainly being the Isaiah House Community Health Center that we talked about. And just talked about different recommendations that as we move forward to make to the mayor, we're getting close with that work. And so I think we're all getting excited about the work that's being done with the workout groups. And that was pretty much the gist of our meeting for that day outside of finalizing the agenda for today. For those that might have been in that meeting and would like to share that at this time. Or did I hit it pretty much on the head? All right, all right. I want to ask Carmen Combs if she would come for the recovery ready announcements and updates. Good morning. Good morning. Recovery ready. We are moving right along. We had a great, I think it was a pretty good turnout. We had a recovery ready reception on the 10th. What was that? Tuesday of this week. So thanks again to those of you that came. And for the ones that didn't come, you missed a good time. But we had a lot of our partners that helped us along the way. So that was a good thing to be able to show our appreciation. Dr. Ragland and the mayor gave a great welcome. And my better half, not better half, but one of my little halves, my son played. He's one of my better halves. He played great music for us. So we had a great evening on Tuesday. As far as recovery ready, we are in the process of trying to get some things together. Literature with all the partners on it. I hope to have that at least in the making within the next couple months so that we can have some sort of directory, a local directory for the city. And that's really all I have to share. Thank you so much, Carmen. And let me take this opportunity again to thank Carmen for her work. Putting the reception together and not just sending the information out to our partners. But also the catering of the food and our entertainment. Yeah, I'll put it out there. And so I just want to tell you on behalf of the commission, we say thank you for a job well done. And so when you leave, for those that are present today, when you leave and go down to the downstairs where you sign in, the recovery ready certificate is posted there for you to see. And so you might want to check that out on your way out today. So again, thank you, Carmen. And Crystal and all others who helped to make it. It's in my office. I took it back. Did you? Yeah. Sorry. Well, then I rescind what I just said then. All right. All right. At this time I want to ask that John Moses, who is the chair of prevention and treatment, and then also Sierra Baldwin, if they would lead, who is the- What? I am so sorry. Do you know how long I've known her? I'm sorry. Sierra Bowman. I am so sorry. If you all would come and lead us in our work group discussion. I don't care who goes first, John or Sierra. Thank you, Dr. Raglan. The prevention and treatment work group met and we got through two of the four things that we wanted to get through. It was a great meeting and we talked about specifically the idea of the conference that you read about in the minutes from the last big meeting. And we talked about the interest bearing account that we want to sustain this money even further or to make big ideas come to life over time. And so we had a lot of discussion. It went great. Our next meeting is Tuesday, this coming Tuesday the 17th at 3 o'clock. It is virtual. And our agenda will be to tackle the next two, which are infrastructure and- A little help? No. Infrastructure and- I think some of the things we wanted to have part of the conversation around that symposium that we were going to- I think we were landing on making a recommendation for that and I think Carmen and myself were going to come back with a draft of what that might look like and sound like. Yeah. So a missing one that we're doing Tuesday. Oh, yeah. The big chunk. The grants and RFPs that we'll be putting out to the public. Hopefully by spring. Easy, I hope. By spring. All right. That's all I've got. Are there any questions for John? Anybody? All right, Sierra? So same thing. We talked about actually all four of the things, the interest bearing account, the grants, the community conference symposium slash the current infrastructures. Then we also talked about possibly hiring a grant person just depending on how big the grants are going to be. So that is something that we also discussed when we talked about grants. Our next meeting is going to be on Monday at 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock. It's going to be on Teams. It's virtual as well. And that meeting is we're just going to kind of organize it in a better way. We kind of briefly talked about everything. And we approved that those are the main things that we want to send to the mayor. But we want to kind of break it down a little bit more. And we mentioned with the mini grants since our focus is on family and recovery to kind of help with our grassroots just because they are the ones that are on the ground. And whether that be helping with community resources with those families because housing was a big issue. So we talked about that just briefly. And we will talk more about that at our next meeting, which is Monday. So. All right. All right. Anybody have questions that we're not in? I just want to remind everybody those meetings are open to the public. It's getting ready to say. And I have noticed them. So the link to get on to Teams will be on the LFUCG website. Yes. Thank you, Carmen. You took the words right out of my mouth. All right. Are there any other questions or comments for Sierra's group? Anybody? Okay. I'm excited that the work is really, I mean, we've been working for a year now. But we're really getting down to the nuts and bolts. And I think it's taken us this time to get to where we are. And I'm very appreciative of all the work that the commission is doing. And I want to give a shout out to John and Sierra as they lead us in these work groups. I think they're doing a fine job. So thank you so much. All right. And will you send a reminder out about the meetings? Will it go out again? I know it came out last week, but will we resend it again this week? You should have received it yesterday. Yesterday. Okay. I'll check my emails when I get back. All right. Thank you so much. All right. We do have several guests that are with us today that will be coming and sharing about their particular programs. And so we want to lend our ears to those individuals at this time. And so we want to ask that Phil and Kelly Gunning with Participation Station, are you here? If you would come at this time. Hi, everyone. Nothing like being able to present to a commission on Friday the 13th, right before Christmas. And I was told to bring wishes and visions and ideas. So I feel like that's kind of like sitting on Santa's lap in a way. So anyway, I'm really excited about this opportunity to share with you. Participation Station is a program of NAMI Lexington. And I'm just going to spend a moment to tell some of you that may not know what is NAMI. NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Why would an entity that works with mental illness be at an opioid commission meeting? And most of you already know the answer to that question. But for anybody that may not, I view addiction as a three-layer cake. And NAMI has tried for years and years to focus on all the layers of the cake. We believe the underpinnings of addiction are trauma, mental illness, and then the addiction manifests as ways to self-medicate and ease our pain. Opioids are pain killers. And if we didn't have that underpinning of pain brought on from years, maybe our whole lives, that manifest in changes in our brains, which cause mental illnesses, which then cause us to need to self-medicate, which therefore comes the drug use and the opioid dependence. I wanted to tell you a little bit about some of the visions and dreams that NAMI has been able to create, co-create with this community. One of the ones that I'm most proud of, I've been with NAMI for 25 years now, as either their Executive Director or now their Public Policy and Advocacy Director. And one of the things that I'm very proud of was we were probably the driving force to replace the old Eastern State Hospital. I would say if you were around the community at that time, you know we really took up that cause and said we needed state-of-the-art for our people with severe mental illness. So we were able to accomplish that. One of the other ideas and visions we were able to bring to fruition with collaboration and cooperation of our community partners was to bring peer-operated services, peer support services, not only to Fayette County, but to the state of Kentucky. Peers are now certified. They're now Medicaid billable. We test them. We certify them. We do all those things. NAMI's been a big part of that. Also, Mental Health First Aid. We're one of the first entities that brought Mental Health First Aid and offered those trainings, not only in our community but statewide because we've been kind of an incubator of these ideas. And another really important thing that we've been able to do in 2014 was the Fayette County Mental Health Court, which we're very proud of. One thing I want to say about when we talk about drug court, mental health court, opioid crisis, opioid commission, mental health, trauma, it's all related. Why do you need a mental health court and a drug court? The reason is because 80% of the people in our mental health court have co-occurring substance use disorder and mental health, serious mental illness. Those are very acute diseases in and of themselves, but when you collaborate and you have the two of them placed on top of each other with possibly other disabilities and other factors, it's a very difficult population to treat. One of the big programs we've been able to bring to Kentucky is DTR. It's called Double Trouble in Recovery. Double Trouble in Recovery was needed because many times we would send our participants to AA or NA, and if they had a serious mental illness, they were discouraged from taking their psychotropic medications that was looked down upon in those programs. So there had to be another way invented. So DTR is a 12-step program and is very well utilized among co-occurring populations. But it allows for the patient to take their psychotropic medications. These are all chronic illnesses. Another thing we've been able to implement in our community as part of our vision was to create a warm line that's peer-operated and peer-run. It's not a hotline for crisis, but it's a warm line to help people identify resources that have an understanding peer to talk to if they're having a bad day, if they're lonely, if they just need someone to talk to. What it did was take a lot of pressure off the hotline, which is used, excuse me, for crisis situations. So all of these things together, we've been able to work with our collaborators, UK and New Vista and all of our other community partners, Catholic Action, Hope Center. We all work together. We also went to UK about eight years ago with a vision. I told them about something that is now called Empath. At the time, it was the San Antonio model, which was a holistic model with no barriers to treatment that people could utilize in a psychiatric or any other kind of really crisis. And I'm sure Dr. Woods would attest to that. We need no-barrier, low-barrier programs, not only for our participants, but for the police department that utilizes them, for families that don't know what to do with their individuals. NAMI was founded on families, what to do with our family members who are severely mentally ill. My husband and I have two sons that are severely mentally ill, and we have lost eight people in our family to either severe mental illness and or substance use in the past five years. So we intimately understand the complexities of this, and I wanted to share with you that depth and breadth of knowledge and experience, and all of our programs are peer, peer-to-peer, whether you're a provider, I'm a provider, whether or not you're a parent, a family member, I'm a family member, and whether or not you're a person with lived experience of serious mental illness or co-occurring disorder, or any of those things, I have a serious mental illness. I have PTSD from all the things we just talked about, and I have major depressive disorder. So I can relate to, across the board, all those things. Everybody that works in NAMI has about the same experience. That's really important. Another really good thing that I think we've been a part of doing was bringing CIT, Crisis Intervention Training, to the state of Kentucky, along with Jim Daly from Louisville, and Denise Spratt from Louisville, and Ryan Wolfsong, is that Wolfson? I'm sorry, I always get his name wrong. Wolfong. Wolfong. We started that program. Now, every single officer in Fayette County, many at UK, the airport, a lot of people are trained in crisis intervention, how to interact and de-escalate mental health crises among people. The community paramedicine team, we sat on development for that. We brought those ideas. We said what was working in other communities. So I really believe we've had a lot of good ideas. We've brought a lot of solutions. How we came to focus on those ideas was we decided NAMI needs to be a gap filler. There were so many gaps in the system. There were so many problems in delivery. There was so much issue with outreach and continuation of care that what I hope we do as we move forward with funding, with grants, with everything, is recognize this is not just opioids. This is mental health. This is trauma. This is families. This is, as you said, all the grassroots. We have to come together. One of the major problems for us through these past 25 years has been the silo effect of just seeing things one at a time. We need to do what these progressive communities have done and what we're beginning to do with things like empath and paramedicine and ACT teams and all those things. We have to braid funding sources. We can't be narrow-minded when we think about, well, they're mental health. No, we're not just mental health. We're all those things we just talked about. Just like Hope Center isn't just homelessness. They're addiction. They're mental health. We have to treat them all. So I'm asking you to look at the three-layer cake that we talked about and think about as we approach how we're going to continue to deal with these things, we must approach it from a holistic point of view. People are mind, body, and spirit. We have to address all those things. We cannot leave out any of them. I often say to people, how would your body work if you cut off your head? If I'm only going to talk about mental health, then I can't talk about the rest of the body. I can't talk about what else happens. People's spiritual lives are very important in recovery. If we want a recovery-oriented, sustained ecosystem for a community, then we must get out of that silo thinking. We must look toward how everything's going to work together and understand that even though the money comes down from substance use, it comes down from opioid settlement. What led to all that opioid addiction in Kentucky? What led to all these suicides? What led to all these overdoses? What my ask and my dream and my vision and my Santa's wish list today is to not be siloed in our thinking and to remember that we treat whole human beings. I really want to thank you. My husband wants to highlight one of his favorite programs, which is Participation Station and the peer teams that we run out of there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for having us today. We don't often get a chance to just visit around some of the things that we think are important. It's often very formal and requires, you know, a PowerPoint, all that stuff. And I don't like to follow Kelly. But I do want to talk about Participation Station. I want to talk about peer support. I hope everybody knows what I'm talking about when I say peer support. There's a lot to unpack around that. And it's pretty evident the value and the magic of peer support has been talked about a lot for quite a few years now. So I hope you do have some familiarity. If not, I'd be glad to come back another time. And I can talk about it as long as you'd like. There's a couple of specific things that we've learned over many years working with peer support that I don't see a lot of information online for. And those are around the challenge of we were able to get Medicaid reimbursement for peers some years ago, not knowing the challenges that that would bring for the peers providing services. When you're providing Medicaid billable services, there's a lot of boxes to check. There's a lot of documentation to do. And there's a lot of restrictions, actually. They don't really fit well into peer-to-peer work. They tend to sort of pull peers more toward case management and away from true principles of peer support. We're working on that, but that's a tough one. It's a really tough one. So we ask you to think outside of the box of billable services because there's a lot more you can do with peer support. Another thing we've learned about the individuals providing the services is it's very difficult for them to go from part-time work to full-time work because there's a big gap there. And if they go to full-time, they lose their benefits. Their psychotropic medications are usually very expensive, and it's just hard for them to get to a salary level of employment that allows them to work full-time. The other thing is, especially with folks that have co-occurring, it takes a lot of time to manage these illnesses. Working full-time takes some time away from them managing their illness, and it's just very difficult. It brings me to part-time peers and the magic of teams of part-time peers. We have developed three teams that we're very proud of. One is at Participation Station. That team provides workshops daily, 10 to 4, Monday through Friday. Those are based on the Boston psychiatric model and fit into the various categories and teach folks life skills and things about their illness, their medications, and it's peer-run. So the individuals who actually have serious mental illness decide what they need and develop it and then present it. We're just available for support to help find funding and so on and so forth, but this is truly a peer-led effort, and it's great. And out of that, we have also spawned a peer team that works at Eastern State Hospital daily. We provide support on unit groups. We provide support in the recovery mall, and we provide visitation assistance. So we actually have individuals with serious mental illness who help family members get in to see their loved ones, and when they meet someone that's actually well into their recovery and able to work and then they find out, well, that individual has schizophrenia the same as my son does, it's very impactful. It's unbelievable. There's a lot of information on the efficacy of peer support. That's not hard to find. Mark, I think, could give us a testimonial. We've been at the hospital since 2014. Another team we're very proud of is the peer support team that works with mental health court. That one started in November of 2014, and our statistics with that court as far as reducing recidivism and getting people into stable housing and employment, reconnected with their families, there are no statistics nationwide that come close to what we're doing in Fayette County with the Fayette County Mental Health Court. We're fortunate we have a woman who's LCSW, worked at Blue Grass slash New Vista for many, many years. She's a SAMHSA GAINS Center fellow, and as part of her work with the GAINS Center, she travels nationwide and evaluates mental health courts, and she comes back and tells us all the time, there are no mental health courts in the nation like ours, and we haven't found another one that's actually administered by an AMI organization. Most of them are tied in with AOC, and there's some that have a peer hired by AOC. That's a little better than maybe just a drug court at the same time. The peer teams are just much more effective. One of the things that happens with teams is they support each other. When we have a team of peers, they talk about all their experiences that they have in these groups and then these one-on-one sessions, and if they have something that's troubling, they share with each other and support each other. The other thing is when you have a team of 6, 8, 10, 12 peers, they all have different perspectives. They've all had different experiences. Much more effective working with a very difficult population like we have coming through the mental health court when you have all those different perspectives and all those different experiences. Much more effective than one person or two even would be with their limited personal experience. So we invite you to think out of the box of billable services, number one, and think out of the box of the community mental health centers and the recovery centers hiring peers to be their employees. That works for some, and there's some value there, but that's also leaving out a lot of individuals that can provide excellent services in a different environment, and that's the part-time peer teams. Those need to be funded, I think, outside of billable services, and the magic's there. It does create compliance and just makes it easier for the billable services to be effective when you've got these non-billable services happening in conjunction. So we feel like we basically get people ready for billable services, for treatment, medication, compliance, and so forth. So it's a lot. There's a lot to unpack around peer support, and we've been doing this for years. We got some things we thought were really positive at the time, and then we get into it and find out, hmm, there's some other things here we didn't think about, we didn't know about. So that's my ask is to, you know, not rely on everything that's kind of, you know, readily available and reimbursable and sort of in the general box, but let's look at everything that's available. We have some wonderful peer team services in Fayette. We don't know that they exist anywhere else in our state, possibly in the nation, but we don't know that. So that's my ask. And if you have any questions, I'm glad to answer them. Thank you so much for coming and sharing with us about the great work that's being done at the participation station. I'm very familiar with that project, and so we thank you for coming. Are there any questions or comments from the commission? It seems like I always have a question. Just what is your peer support roster in terms of number, and then what is the training and the cost of that training for people that you're onboarding? We have about 25 peers, and a lot of those work on multiple teams. Right. And I'm glad you asked about the cost. Number one, there's not enough folks that can train peer specialists because it requires a curriculum to be approved by the department, and it has to be peers training, so it has to be individuals that are well enough in their recovery to actually train other peers. There's no money for that. We do have, coming through our training program, we do have some community mental health centers that will sponsor an individual they want to hire, same with recovery centers, and we sponsor some folks just out of our discretionary funds, but there's no real funding for individuals that want to take that training and are not sponsored by somebody. We only charge $150. It's a week-long training, and that basically covers snacks and lunches and materials and so forth. So, yeah, if there was money that could support training and developing more trainers and making it possible for people to take that training without sponsorship, that would be really helpful. Thank you. I was at Bluegrass slash New Vista. I do the same thing. I would say, you guys will know better than I do, but I would say maybe 2010-ish, somewhere around there when peer support first started being a conversation here, we put together I think maybe one of the state's first curriculums. When you say curriculum, I have a little bit of a traumatic flashback. I remember putting it together first and held the first couple of trainings here, and I did the trainings until we kind of got it up off the ground just to see how it would go. And I've told people over and over, it was like I had done substance use treatment for a long time before then and did lots of group work, lots of drug court groups, that kind of thing. And I tell people all the time, those were the best groups I've ever been a part of ever. Like it was magical weeks to watch people who didn't even know this existed because it was so brand new. A lot had gotten Isaiah's house, maybe had some people in those first couple of classes. And I have so appreciated watching the evolution of the role of peer on clinical teams and how clinicians have learned to appreciate and respect them versus everybody was scared to death in the beginning, what's this going to be? Because the peers can get things done that no clinician can. No psychiatrist can. They can get to places nobody else does. So I really appreciate your all's work. Well, we appreciate you because it was 2009 actually when Participation Station opened and Sandy Silver and yourself and NAMI helped develop that curriculum with our folks. And it's just been, we always use the word magic, but guys, there's really no other word for it because it's something that you don't get out of a pill. It's something you don't get from a doctor. It's something that you can only get from someone else who's had that shared lived experience. Any other questions about NAMI or peer support or any of those things? Well, thank you very much and thank you for hearing us. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate you and the work that you do. Thank you so much. All right. Isaiah House, Community Health Center. Albert. Good morning. Good morning. Can you say your last name because I don't want to tear it. Kraut. Kraut. Yes. Okay. Thank you so much. I'm one of those PowerPoint people. I've got a video. I don't have to show it to you. It's got like six different points. Congratulations. I wonder if they've got any peers, their house, family. All right. I had a video to show, which was an introduction. We opened our center just earlier this fall and Miranda Combs did a much nicer job than I'll be able to do to introduce who we are and what we've done so far. All right. Let me go back up to the beginning slide here. If we can go up a little further. All right. Again, my name is Al Kraut. I'm the vice president of philanthropy and also workforce education. Most of my career I'm a retired man from education now. I was a high school principal for about 17 years and started working for Isaiah house three years ago. And it's been just a great time of growth for me, learning and understanding of those who are struggling to recover from addiction. And I really appreciate what you guys talked about. Just had a beautiful story. When we look at serving clients for long-term recovery, it's so important to focus on not only their mind but also their mind, body and soul. And peer support is such an important part of our program. We have currently at Isaiah house approximately 4,000 clients that we serve each year. We're 25 years old. We're the oldest non-profit recovery center in the state of Kentucky. We're also the largest non-profit recovery center. We started in 1999. Our founders, Mark and Tammy LaPalm, sort of started by accident. Long story short, Mark is a very caring guy, lived in Danville. Was going down the road on an icy cold day and saw a man walking down the street, pulled over and said, hey, do you need a ride? And the man said, no, no, I'm okay. I'll get in. It's freezing. Where are you going? He said, I don't have anywhere to go. He was homeless. And there were no homeless centers in Danville. So he said, I've got a place for you. Took him to his house, let him stay in his basement for a couple of weeks until he found him a job and he was able to find a place to live as well. That happened again and again and again until Mark built in his basement five bedrooms. And so we had people constantly coming over. Eventually decided, hey, this is something that we really need to start addressing. And so we built the first very small Isaiah house in Danville. And we incorporated in 2000, and the first large permanent center was in Willisburg, Kentucky. It was an old schoolhouse that we purchased, rehabbed, and it's a 100-man facility. Just south of that in Chaplin, there was another schoolhouse that we rehabbed, and it's an 80-person facility. Both of those were given to us. Okay, so Mark saw that as something that is important. This was meant to be. This was what I should be doing. We have six residential centers now across the state from Louisville to Chaplin. And as I said, we service about 4,000 people residentially in transitional homes and through IOP, intensive outpatient services. Our mission, you know, we're really here to provide comprehensive, evidence-based services. We work through hope, healing, opportunity, purpose, education, and employment for lifelong success. Employment and education, that's what sets us apart from several treatment centers. As a nonprofit, we are a true nonprofit. At the end of the year, we simply try to reach that zero. We try to bring up enough money to pay our expenses. And there are 30- and 60-day treatment centers that are for profit that receive Medicaid, Medicare, and other insurances. And from that, there's profit left over. We take that profit and move it into our 11-month program. We want to make sure that our clients are not only able to reach, you know, a point of sobriety, but also to learn the life lessons to address the mind, body, and soul that is so important for them to continue on. Education and workforce, near and dear to my heart. Every client that we see, every client that we will see at the health care center, has an opportunity to further themselves working in our education and workforce training program. We've partnered with the Lexington Rescue Mission, and we're very experienced working with people who are homeless. About, I think it was 1,900, almost 2,000 so far this year, of our clients were homeless. And so we partnered with them here in Lexington, and also Jubilee Jobs in Fayette County in the same building on West 2nd Street. And so in our program, we have education that leads to sustainable work. That includes programs through Goodwill, Bluegrass Area Development, and educational trainers that will help them to learn computer skills, to learn how to write a resume, soft skills, and working. Out of our total number of people involved in education, we have approximately 120 now working toward their GEDs. We have 200 people in college in that 11-month program. We work primarily with the Kentucky Community Technical Colleges. Here in Lexington, it's BCTC, which you're familiar with. And we have students that go to many other colleges as well, depending on what degree level they have. But with KCTCS, they are guaranteed free tuition, most of them because of their income level, but also for the Kentucky Work Ready Scholarship Program. That's a wonderful opportunity for them where, you know, we hear so much about student loan debt and the burden that that puts on people. Our clients are able to complete the programs and start a job without debt from school and school loans. Our workforce, I mentioned our pre-vocational workshops. They're able to get work ready documents from Goodwill. They have soft skills documents. They have their SOAR program documents for that and certifications that they're able to bring along for job interviews and to place on their resumes as well. One thing that we work on that people just don't think of. I-9 documentations, you know, when you start that new job, you think, okay, where did I put my birth certificate? I don't have this. Our clients do not have driver's license, they don't have state IDs, they don't have anything they need for work or college. So we really try to, you know, emphasize that, okay, you're going to have this before you're reaching the 100-day mark. The 100-day mark is when we employ our clients. We have 600 approximately 50 employees at Isaiah House. It's a large organization spanning the state. 250 of our employees are clients, and I think that's a beautiful thing. They work with us, and many of them want to work for Isaiah House because their heart is for addiction. They want to be involved in programs. Many of them go into addiction counseling through college as well, and we look at that not only as an opportunity for them to work for the 11 months, but to stay with us as well and grow in their position. One of our vice presidents was a client 10 years ago. He had no education. He got his GED years ago. We paid for his college education. He got a four-year degree and a master's degree, and he's one of the most well-loved and respected people at Isaiah House, and we have many, many other stories like that of people who move through. In the video, we had a really nice story from a nurse who had lost her license due to some past legal problems and drug issues, and we worked with her and we've worked with several to regain her license, and she's a nurse now for us at the Community Health Center, and that's what it is all about. We have partners throughout the state. Here in Lexington, we don't have a residential center in Lexington, but we have several transitional housing or sober living housing where we partner throughout the state with UPS, Inuaktai Summit, Isaiah House, of course, Goodwin's Textiles, Hitachi, Clark's Metals, and then multiple other employment agencies throughout the state. At the Community Health Center, there is always a need for additional emergency response and personnel. When someone is unfortunately overdosing and they're in that situation, they need immediate help. I know that at the Lexington Rescue Mission, people are trained. They're able to utilize an arc hand to help people. We have doctors, PAs, LPNs, APRNs, to who are certified, and other just all workers are certified for emergency response at the center. They'll have ongoing medical treatment for those facing addiction, and also it's open for the community for others to be involved. It's a different world for someone in addiction. When you arrive at a hospital and you're hurt and you've been in recovery for a year and you're really experiencing pain, the first thing they want to do, and it's reasonable, is to hook you up with some medicine that you do not need to be taking. We have four centers similar to this one. We're in Georgetown, Hillview, and Louisville, and also in Danville. We have primary care centers and behavioral health, but we do not go beyond like we have here in Fayette County now. The homeless and those seeking primary care who may not have insurance, that's available for them. I mentioned earlier we're a non-profit. We serve everyone, many of our clients, many I'll say. We serve clients from 115 of the 120 counties this year so far, and if they need to see us, they don't have a ride, we will travel to pick them up. If they do not have money, do not have insurance, that's okay. We've got about a 20% indigent rate running where until they can receive and if they will receive Medicaid, we cover the bill with the excess that we have rather than being a profit system. And so in those situations, it's very difficult because insurance doesn't cover, you know, first of all beyond the 60 days typically. Insurance does not cover the indigent, but we have a need for grants. That's where I come in. I'm a grant writer and I've got a couple of people work with me that write some smaller grants and also donations. Those help to cover the gap that we have as a non-profit and serving people for 11 months and opening a health care, behavioral health care, and dental office as well because it will operate in the red without those donations and grants. We have intensive outpatient treatment as well for those who, you know, are at the point where they can just come in for their clinicals, their counseling, their peer support groups. We are strong believers in that. We've got trainers for peer support. We train approximately 60 peer support people each year and it's critical to have that personal connection with someone who's been through that situation before. Residential care, that says 200, that's residential. With IOP and medical services, we serve currently over 400 people from Fayette County each year, so we're very familiar with the county and it's been a great start so far. That 400 number is going to grow exponentially once a clinic is in full running force. Our transitional housing, we're looking to purchase additional housing here in Fayette County. What we typically try to do there is similar to our Willisburg and Chaplin situations where either A, it was given to us or we find investors who want to have the property and own the property for a long-term investment and give us an extremely discounted rate for lease and that way it becomes more affordable. Our clients, once they hit the 100-day mark, you know, we provide a hand up, not a hand out for our clients. At 100 days, we guarantee employment. We will find you a job and you pay a portion of your rent for that and that typically will cover not only the rent, room and board, it also covers their medical needs, their clinical counseling, things of that nature as well. So they're beginning to get on their feet and are beginning to save money for when they're ready to go on their own as well. The ongoing clinical behavioral health peer support services, that carries out throughout the 11 months. If we have a homeless person come in who seeks medical attention, who is a current and active addict, we have an immediate way to help them and we can send them, we give them the choice to choose Isaiah House or other areas. They can choose to become residents at our centers and receive full-time recovery, counseling, medication, everything else they need for that. Our partnership with Lexington Rescue Mission and Jubilee Jobs has just been so, it's been a blessing. They are, Laura Carr, who you probably know from the rescue mission, is a wonderful person and she has enabled us, we are on the third floor of the building, she's enabled us to really connect with Fayette County. She's enabled us to be, she's been an introduction for us to Fayette County. Many people have never, how many of you all have heard of Isaiah House before you saw this agenda? A couple, three, four, okay, maybe more than I thought, but Isaiah House is new to Fayette County, but what we've done and what we do, the primary care, the emergency services, therapy, dental services, and this is our first dental office, housing, job placement, we're new here, but it's not new to what we've done for 25 years and so the assistance that we seek is financial and it supports so many clients. We've received some grants, but it's really difficult to find a grant that is not completely programmed or programmatic in its, in your request. It's really got to be program oriented and those programs typically are new, they're either research or they're experimental. You cannot find grants with the exception of, thank goodness for our opioid abatement commission, that cover existing programs and it's essential, it's essential for us to have and improve long-term recovery to have wraparound services and that's what we provide. We have everything, I'll not repeat them all, but everything from, you know, emergency services to come in and get addiction treatment, get the counseling, clinical work that you need, inpatient out services, then transitional houses, housing, and a job. That's how you beat recovery. I'm a researcher, I've been in school all of my life. I'm working on my second PhD now and I'm almost 60. That's ridiculous, but I enjoy school. The more research I do, the more I find that 60 days treatment is not enough. We have such a high level of recidivism that to work with someone to really improve their chances of remaining clean and sober, 10, 11 months, 12 months is the target rate. Employment is so important. Do you have any questions about the program or what we're doing? I've got a question. Sure. So has Isaiah House been able to secure funding from state opioid money or local in the cities that you are already working? The state we have in Harrodsburg, it was a, as I had mentioned, new programs. It was a new education program, very innovative we did through the state opioid commission, but in Fayette County or Louisville, none of the others have we, you know, you would be the first city commission that we've worked with. I think that what you're doing is great. The community health center is goes right along with align with some of the things that I talk about all the time, which is to have everything in one place, have it residential, have it to where they can get everything done. Where I differed was that I was thinking we had to buy a place to do it and I like the approach of get somebody to donate it. Absolutely. We love those people. If you know anybody that wants to buy me a house, I'm happy to. I will right after I find that person for me. Thank you again. Certainly. Any other questions? Comments? I think most of us are pretty, very well familiar with Isaiah house and the work that you all have done over the years. Of course, been a partner with Isaiah house in recent past. So we thank you for the work that you do. Glad that you're working with Laura over there at the Lexington rescue mission. Again, thank you for coming and presenting with us today. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Our next presenter today is from peacefully whole recovery. April Edwards. Good morning. I'm April Edwards. And I'm Callie Byrne. And our nonprofit is peacefully whole recovery. We're a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of life and success of recovery for those struggling with opioid use disorder. We're fairly new. We were founded in June of 2024. And both of us are recovering opioid addicts with lived experience. Me personally, some of you might recognize me. I came and spoke a few months ago just as a public commentator. My journey, I've been in recovery for about 15 years now. And really my primary root cause was trauma. I suffered a kidnapping and gang rape in 2008 and was using opioids and other substances to cope with the emotional pain. Once I went through some trauma therapy, I was able to come off a bunch of psych meds that I'd been prescribed to deal with the symptoms of said trauma. Callie has her own story. So I have been dealing with chronic pain since I was in high school. And of course, I was, I graduated in 2003. So I was being prescribed these opioids at the height of the opioid epidemic right before people really realized that OxyContin was not the answer. So I used copious amounts. And of course, I thought I was better than everybody else. I said, I won't do heroin. I will only do pills. So I, you know, I was being prescribed, you know, hundreds of Percocet, Lortab, OxyContin every month. So in 2009, I finally went to rehab in California. And the layout and the services offered in California are, you know, what helped me. I was put on MAT, which has managed my chronic pain. So since then, I have not needed any pain medication. I have been stable. But, you know, and I've been trying to be an advocate for people in Kentucky, but the services that are needed are not being offered to people in treatment. And there's a lot of good work being done. Yes, obviously, there's a lot of work collaborating on various forces and, but there are missing pieces to the puzzle, we feel like, just from both of our experiences being through, you know, treatment centers and sober living facilities and all that. So our mission is empowering individuals to reclaim their lives from alcohol, opioid, and other substance abuse and trauma through comprehensive holistic recovery. What we do. So we partner with holistic health and wellness practitioners to provide therapeutic services, including massage, acupuncture, meditation, and mindfulness practices, breath work, trauma-informed yoga, nutritional counseling, and chiropractic care. We also partner with inpatient treatment facilities and sober living homes to bring these services to their clients. We organize seminars to educate the public on the importance of whole person health and wellness modalities and recovery from opioid use disorder. And we would like to provide financial assistance for those in recovery from opioid use disorder who want to pursue trauma therapy when insurance won't cover the visit and they can't afford the out-of-pocket costs, which is almost always. Holistic health and wellness can be used in conjunction with medication for opioid use disorder, psychotherapy, psychiatry, and can vastly improve the quality of life and success of recovery for those struggling with opioid use disorder. So a little bit about what we do and why it's important. So it's kind of general knowledge that trauma and addiction kind of go hand in hand. Trauma and post-traumatic stress are often driving factors as to why people find themselves in active addiction. Often we develop unhealthy coping skills such as opioid abuse as a way to cope with emotional pain. PTSD is often under diagnosed and sometimes misdiagnosed as conditions such as bipolar disorders and ADHD. More than 80% of those who develop OUD have one or more traumatic events happen in their lives and people with trauma are more likely to seek treatment for chronic pain with opioids. Modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, accelerated resolution therapy, and EMDR can play a pivotal role in helping people find lasting recovery. A few symptoms of trauma, I'm not going to read them all, but I'll name a few notable ones. Addiction, eating disorders, impulsiveness, manic symptoms, self-harm, social anxiety, thoughts of suicide, anger, aggression, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, fears, phobias, numbness, detachment, difficulty feeling close to others, autoimmune disease, chronic back pain, insomnia, and unexplained physical symptoms. Trauma can look like a lot of things. Nutrition is a key element in recovery that is often overlooked. The prevalence of people who use drugs with mood disorders such as depression, anxiety have been confirmed by many studies and these disorders can have a negative impact on recovery including relapse. Essential nutrients play a critical role in mood regulation. Nutrient deficiencies correlate with poor mental health, especially depression. The mind and body are so connected. The gut-brain axis is a bi-directional communication network that links the enteric and central nervous systems. If our bodies are malnourished and incapable of producing their own feel-good chemicals, this can sometimes lead to addictive behaviors. Also, many of us become undernourished and active addiction due to the prioritizing of our next use over a healthy meal. 95% of our serotonin is produced in our gut. Serotonin plays a role in modulation of many behaviors such as aggression, violence, mood, sleep, and appetite. The synthesis begins with an amino acid called tryptophan, thus increasing intake of tryptophan can increase serotonin levels. Dopamine is created from an amino acid called tyrosine that is naturally produced in our bodies and found in protein-rich foods. When patients dependent on opiates are given a combination of amino acids while undergoing detoxification, they show a significant reduction in the craving for opiates. Studies have also shown that people with low vitamin D are more likely to use and misuse opioids and suggest a potential role in vitamin D supplementation in fighting opioid addiction. Exercise. Exercise is one of the most underrated antidepressants available to us. It can reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and drug use in individuals recovering from opioid use disorder. Exercise can naturally boost our dopamine and serotonin levels and it can affect cognitive functions such as attention, memory, and problem solving. Research suggests the mind-boosting power of exercise is due to the effect on endorphins and other neuromodulators involved in the endogenous opioid system, which plays an important role in pain management, response to stress, autonomic control, and reward. Studies suggest that physical activity improves substance use outcomes in young people, including a reduction in the frequency of use, amount of use, intent to use, and cravings, as well as improved physical fitness and overall quality of life. Yoga can reduce stress, anger, depression, fatigue, and tension while increasing relaxation, and it can be an effective modality to complement the treatment of individuals with opioid use disorder. Tai chi and qigong can have positive effects on depression, anxiety, physical, and mental health, and can help ease the uncomfortable feelings associated with withdrawal symptoms. Massage. So why is this important? So opioid dependence often begins with chronic pain. Opioid withdrawal symptoms can be really painful. Massage can increase dopamine levels and help both relieve both the physical and emotional pain of withdrawal, as well as support the body's natural detox process. The primary reason for relapse after seeking treatment is the lack of treatment for chronic pain. However, the current standard of treatment for opioid use disorder does not involve the evaluation and treatment of chronic pain. Studies show massage therapy can help reduce physical pain, minimize anxiety, and improve the quality of life. It can also help people with PTSD reconnect with their bodies and help relieve states of hyper arousal and dissociation, which is the experience of disconnecting thoughts, feelings, sense of self, and surroundings. Let me interject real quick. So one of the issues with treating chronic pain when you are in recovery, most places, most people with chronic pain, well I won't say most, but people that are on MAT, if the MAT is not, you cannot be on MAT for pain management. Insurance will not pay for it in that, they won't pay for it if that's what it's classified as. They will send you back to the pain clinic so that you are not getting the services that you need. So you either have to choose between getting your chronic pain treated or getting your substance, your opiate use disorder treated, which they really go hand in hand. Buprenorphine is a painkiller. It should be, people shouldn't be suffering because they had to choose one or the other when there are additional services that can help with that pain. So acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves inserting thin needles into strategic points on the body. Depending on where your pain is located, they will focus on that area. Like if you have migraines, they'll focus on your ear. If you have reproductive pain, they will focus on your abdomen and your feet. But it has been found to be the most effective non-pharmacological approach for treating pain. It's also an effective way to treat opioid addiction based on 45 clinical human animal trials exploring acupuncture's role in minimizing the use of multiple drugs, including opiates and methamphetamine. Acupuncture can also address acute and prolonged opioid withdrawal symptoms, such as physical pain, anxiety, and stress, and can help prevent relapse. It is a cost-effective, versatile modality that can be implemented in a variety of settings, including inpatient rehabilitation centers, outpatient settings, community centers, and even jail and detention centers. Chiropractic care. Our nervous system is protected within our spine. When misalignments occur, nerves can be irritated and signals from the brain to the rest of the body can be impacted. Adjustments not only relieve pain, but can also aid in detox of accumulated toxins and can help boost the immune system. Studies show that patients who receive chiropractic care for back pain are 50% less likely to fill a prescription for opioids. Meditation and mindfulness. Study found that mindfulness meditation can effectively reduce chronic pain and does not rely on the endogenous opioid system to do so. Opioid addicts in a study who received intensive mindfulness training over an eight-week period showed a significant downward trend in brain activity in response to pictures of opioids and those who attended group therapy where clients expressed emotions and discussed chronic pain and opioid use. Meditation is also known to reduce stress, anxiety, blood pressure, enhance self-awareness, lengthen attention span, and improve sleep and overall emotional well-being. Breath work is an intentional mindful breathing practice that can help alleviate anxiety, depression, release embodied trauma, and bring the participant back to the present moment. It can also help manage acute and chronic pain and has been linked to enhancing recovery from addiction and symptoms related to PTSD. And this is the area that we plan to serve as we're just kind of starting out but we do we do plan to expand to fill the rest of Kentucky so there's my long list of references in case anybody is curious. And yeah that's it any questions? Yes I have a question where are you all located? I am in Lexington. I'm in Paris. She's in Paris. Okay so there so there is there a I was looking for a brick and mortar so you don't have a Not yet. Not yet. Those are long longer term goals. Okay. I think Isaiah House may be able to help you out with that. I will say I actually have never seen it be presented as far as this holistic view of using acupuncture and so I actually like it. This is kind of a different out of the box thing that I don't think which we know those barriers with insurance and stuff like that which hopefully that will progress and get better but I actually even with any other illness car accident we need to think more in depth of what goes on and we have people that go to chiropractors and get massages and anyway I just I think that's awesome that you all saw the gap and it's the gap that I never really really I'm not in recovery either but I just think that that's awesome that you all felt empowered to you saw the gaps you all lived the experience and that's what that's what we need so I think it's awesome. Any other comments? I just want to clarify so these services are not meant to be like in lieu of traditional substance use treatment it's meant to be conjunction with. Right okay thank you so much for sharing and thank you for for your commitment to your sobriety use your recovery I appreciate many years of service lived experiences yes it's very advantageous in this field so thank you so much for for all that you do and for your journey. Thank you. Any other comments? All right we want to thank all of our presenters for being here today and presenting and we again want to thank all of you for your presence. Please remember the the dates to our next meetings happening on Monday I believe from one to two is that right all right and then we have a meeting on Tuesday from three to four and then our executive board meeting is on the first Thursday of the month via teams and then we will be back here next month on the second Friday for our full commission meeting. All right if there's nothing else before us today we thank you again for your presence I will entertain a motion to close this meeting. Who is calling? All right Matthew Grayhouse is called for the motion is there a second? Mark Wood seconded. All those in favor? Anybody opposed? Meeting adjourned. Thank you so much. I was meant for you and you for me me though we may be so far girl so up by the courthouse they're starting to unwind four kids on the corner down on the corner people just gotta smile is the country on the corner out in the street then the folk boys are playin' bring a nickel to have your feet you don't need a penny just to hang around but if you've got a nickel won't you lay your money down cause if you're a poor soul you'll be a poor soul lay your money down over on the corner there's a happy boy people come from all around to watch the magic boy down on the corner out in the street then the folk boys are playin' bring a nickel to have your feet down on the corner out in the street then the folk boys are playin' bring a nickel to have your feet down on the corner down on the corner down in the street then the folk boys are playin' bring a nickel to have your feet down on the corner down in the street down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down down Hi, I'm Liz Sheehan, Councilmember for the 5th District, and I'm here to talk to you today to share about our program that we have for honoring veterans in our community this year. With me today, I have our Director of Emergency Management, Rob Larkin. We also serve on the Veterans Affairs Commission. Rob is our Chair this year, so thank you for your service. I'm our Vice Chair. Why don't you share a little bit with me about the origins of the program that we're going to do this year. So, Liz, as you know, I grew up in Maysville, Kentucky, and I was back on a visit last year. And it was just prior to Veterans Day, and all the streets had banners with so many veterans, probably in excess of 100 and some odd. It kind of struck me as like, you know, this is something that's easy to do. It's achievable and truly honors the service of these individuals. And there were even members of the service that go back to the Civil War. And a lot of those people that were on those banners, I knew, obviously not the Civil War veteran, but a lot of the World War II and Korean War veterans and other people that served in the Vietnam era. Because I went to school with their grandkids, with their children. They were mentors, they were friends of the family, and they were pillars of that community. And I thought, you know, what a great thing that is. Yeah, and since you mentioned it to me, I've also seen them in other towns around Kentucky as I've driven around to see the banners on the light posts. And it is a great way to kind of honor those who have served within our military. So we then took this idea to the mayor's office and the person in the mayor's office, Craig Kamek, who is our liaison to the veterans community, and they were on board right away. So it was very exciting to see that they had buy-in, they wanted to do it, it was kind of an exciting way for us to kind of showcase who has served within our community and who continues to serve. So when we started talking about piloting this program for the first year, we looked at, we identified Vine Street as the potential location to do the banners. But then we had to figure out how to select who was going to go on the banners. Do you want to talk a little bit about how we selected folks for this first year? So the best way that we thought we could start off would be honoring Fayette County veterans that are members of the Veterans Hall of Fame. And there's around 25 or so, I believe. Those individuals obviously served in the military and had great service within the military, and likewise, after leaving the military, had great service in our community here in Fayette County and in the Commonwealth. So they were almost kind of like the easy button for this. And over the period of collecting these pictures and that type of thing, I've gotten to know a number of them, and it's been a great experience in doing so. Do you want to share with us one of the stories that you have learned or one of the interactions that you've had that has been meaningful for you in this process? I mean, just down the street here, Ms. Catherine Bucks, she was in the Air Force. And really, in the Air Force, she was a stenographer and kind of an administrative assistant. But she was like the only enlisted person in this office in the Pentagon. And their primary mission was to recover the remains of deceased service members during the Vietnam time and times previous to that, and also in recovering our POWs. I thought that was tremendous. I served with one of the veterans at the Lexington Fire Department, Ron Logan, a great mentor, a great friend that we lost, unfortunately, not too long ago, a member of the 101st Airborne. And Ron was always, always proud to be a member of the 101st. So that was, again, just a neat experience talking with those folks and reliving some of their experiences and that type of thing. Yeah, and you've put in a lot of time and effort into this and working with the military to get permission to use emblems on our banners, which has been its own process. It is ongoing. And then also working with the families to get more information from them, get high-quality pictures for the banners, and opening that kind of line of communication to confirm information, too, about the people that we are honoring. So I thank you for that work. It has absolutely been my pleasure. And kind of like an emergency management, it is a whole-of-community type effort. So the mayor's office, the Veterans Commission, these individuals here at the History Museum, it has been everybody kind of chipping in and doing their part to make this a success. Thank you. Thank you. I have Mandy Higgins here, Dr. Mandy Higgins, with me that is the executive director of the Lexington History Museum. Mandy, I have been so thankful for your partnership in this project. You were also another person that we reached out to, and you were immediately on board and were excited about this project. And I think it's been meaningful for me. I hope it has been for you as well. Very much. And why we're so excited to do it is because the History Museum is for everybody in Lexington, and so every way that we can honor Lexingtonians, tell Lexingtonian stories, we want to be a part of. Yeah, so tell me a little bit about the behind-the-scenes work that you have been doing to get this project off the ground. So we were very lucky to have some of the bios from the Hall of Fame, but we wanted to make sure that we were honoring not only the military service, but the civilian service as well. So doing a lot of the fact-finding and making sure that when Rob was contacting veterans that we were asking the right questions to get the information we needed. Working with our designers at SableMate Creative to make sure that we had the right type of image and we were doing the right things on the banners to honor the service and not overwhelm the image or overwhelm the person and sharing that information. And then finding ways that we can bring these stories either into the museum or into our presence elsewhere. So behind us you'll see we have a different exhibit up, but one of our veterans is featured in this exhibit, and so working with that family on the banners project also allowed us to move into the exhibit here. Yeah, and someone who did not serve in the military myself, I find that it has been helpful to have the kind of people going behind and double-checking everything because there's so many titles. There's a lot of jargon in the military that the average civilian might not know. So that's been very helpful. One of the other extensions of this project is the creation of an online exhibit. So can you talk a little bit about that and how it started? Yeah, so we at the museum, again, want to be able to have information for anybody who wants it however they can best get it. So not everybody can come downtown, we know that. So we're looking to increase our online presence, and part of that is because we've done the research for these banners, because there's so much to say about these folks. It's not just their picture, it's not just the years that they served, but as Rob was talking about Catherine Bucks and there are so many other folks who had incredible military service, but then went on to do all kinds of things in town or across the state or across the world, we wanted to be able to expand that. So when the banners go up, there will also be an online component where you can learn more about each one of these veterans. We have an Olympic gold medalist, we have doctors and folks who have done all kinds of things in town and across the state to better our communities, and we want to share that with people so that it's more than just their picture. Yeah, and some of the banners will be informational that will be mixed in with the banners that are honoring veterans. Can you give us the website for that? It'll be lexhistory.org slash veterans. If you just go to lexhistory.org, you'll be able to navigate through. Yeah, and if people wanted to come and find out a little bit more about the Lexington History Museum, what times you're open and the different exhibits you have, how can they find information for that? You can definitely find it on our website, lexhistory.org. We are open to the public Thursdays and Fridays 12 to 4 and Saturdays 10 to 4, and you can call me at any time. Maybe not like Sunday at 2 p.m., but we are here Monday through Saturday, normal business hours, and you can call us at 859-440-1582, and we'll happily talk to you about your history, what we have going on here, setting up a tour, a visit. We would love all of Lexington to have a chance to come through. Yeah, and I really like seeing our history museum have this home here on Broadway and then seeing the exhibits expand since even the recent opening here in this space, so it's been great. Well, thank you, as always, for the support that Council has given us for being back here in this space and to be in the Thomas Hunt Morgan House, and we have a lot more to come. We're so excited. Lexington's got more than 250 years of history to share, and we're just at the surface of it. Yeah, so I want to thank in particular the Mayor's Office for working with us on this project, the Veterans Affairs Commission for thinking through the project and maybe future collaboration with that commission, the Lexington History Museum for all the work they've contributed, and Stablemate for doing an in-kind donation of the design of these banners. That was very helpful. So I hope that this first year is 2024, and we will have the banners up from approximately November 1st to the 17th along Vine Street, and I hope you come by to check them out. If you need me, call me. No matter where you are. No matter how far. Just call my name. I'll be there in a hurry. 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