♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ Three, four, six, seven. Oh, we do have a quorum. Good morning, everybody. It is 10.01. It is time to start our Opioid Abatement Commission meeting. We're glad that you're all here to our guests who are present today. So let me now call this meeting to order. All right. We'd ask if Carmen would now call the roll. Happy Friday, everyone. Chair, Dr. Stephanie Raglan. Present. Vice Chair, Tara Stanfield. Kimberly Baird. Here. Sierra Bowman. Commander Greathouse. Present. John Moses. Here. Connie Neal. Here. Margaret Pesciano. Present. Dale Sanders. Present. Matt Webster. Dr. Mark Woods. Here. Laurie Brock. And Angela Evans. We have a quorum. Thank you so much, Carmen. You have our packet in front of you today. I would like at this time if we would just look over the agenda and then I'll receive approval. I move to approve the agenda. Connie Neal. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor? Aye. All right. Thank you so much. You have the minutes from the March 14th commission meeting. If you'll take an opportunity now to peruse through the minutes, then I will receive approval. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. All right. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. All right. Are there any questions? All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motion carried. Thank you so much. All right. The next item on our agenda is the executive board report out. And I want to thank Connie Neal for standing in the gap for our executive board meeting on last week. And so I'll yield now to our secretary, Connie Neal. Thank you. All business, anyone on the board whose term is up, if you want to reapply, make sure that you have done or do that soon. Carmen Combs March has reached out to the mayor and is waiting for a response regarding what is being done with the opioid abatement litigation funds. And we've made those recommendations. We're just waiting for the mayor and then approval from council. So we'll let you guys know as soon as that happens. And the press conference that was held on March 12th, 2025, was successful. And there was a lot of feedback, positive feedback from the information. We said goodbye to Dr. Webster at this meeting. He has decided not to rejoin the Opioid Abatement Committee. And so we want to thank him for his participation. Carmen and John and I attended the UK Health Policy Forum, I think. I don't remember the exact title of it, last week. And Lauren Carr, who is employed with the Kentucky Association of Counties, was present. And she works with the Opioid Abatement Commission. She's an advisor, some things like that. And one of the topics that came up was spending of the opioid abatement funds. And what was presented at that conference was that the majority of counties who have received these funds have not spent them yet. That they are being very deliberate, as we are, in making sure that they are spent appropriately. The categories for spending of the funds is statutory. And those will not change. She made a very concerted effort to stress that. That the categories will remain as they are. Her feeling was that some of the counties were kind of waiting to see if those were going to change a little bit before they committed to spending their funds. But those are not going to change. They are going to stay as written in the statute. They also are talking about developing a website that will have all of the counties listed. The amount of funding that they got and how those funds were used. So that there will be complete transparency and the public will be able to look at that. So she didn't give us a time frame on when that will be done. But that is something that they are working on. In Louisville, October 7th and 8th, they've asked us to hold the date for the State Opioid Abatement Commission Conference. Last year that was a two-day conference. It's held at the Louisville-Kentucky International Convention Center. And they will be giving us additional information on that as plans are finalized. We also had questions about town halls. Carmen is going to follow up with the Mayor and look at her availability. And maybe during spring and summer when the weather breaks and things get a little sunnier, we're going to start having some of those town halls again. So we'll keep you guys posted on that as well. And that's all I've got. All right. Thank you so much, Connie. Are there any questions for anybody? Connie, I do have a question. The State Abatement Commission in October, is that an educational program or is it all a business meeting? It is an educational program. It's a mini-conference, basically. Okay. Yeah. Several of us were able to go last year and it was a very good program. Okay. Any other questions? All right. Thank you so much, Connie. We appreciate it. Well, the next item on our agenda is the commission appointments. And as you all know, our positions as far as the chair, the vice chair, and the secretary are for a year only. And now it's time to re-elect officers for the upcoming year. And so I'm going to open the floor for said nominations. First for the chair for the Opioid Abatement Commission. Madam Chair, this is Kimberly Bayer. You have been such a great leader so far for us, and I appreciate all you do. For that, I nominate Chair Ragland to continue in her position. Am I supposed to be? I can't do this if I'm being nominated, right? I can't oversee this? Or can I? Okay. Just making sure. There's no second on that anyway, so. You don't need a second. I second that nomination. That's right. I can move to close nominations if you'd like me to. Was there a second? I seconded it. I think we are just picking up steam, and continuity of leadership will be important in the next year. All right. What says the rest of you? Are there any other nominations? Let me ask that question. I move to close nominations. I second. All right. Yeah, I have to accept it. That's correct. All right. All those in favor of closing the floor? Aye. Oh, wow. All right. Then hearing that there are no other nominations and the floor is closed, all those in favor? Let me say that first. All those in favor of closing the floor? Aye. Thank you. All right. I accept. Thank you so much. I'm honored to share and to lead, and I can't do it by myself. It takes all of us, so I thank you for your faith in me, and we'll see where we go this year with the Opioid Abatement Commission. Thank you so much. All right. For the Vice Chair. The floor is now open. Who shall we have for Vice Chair of this Opioid Abatement Commission? I was going to. So I make a motion for Tara Stanfield to continue in the current position of Vice Chair. All right. So second? I'll second. Any other nominations? Does she have to be here? She can, you know, give her feedback, I believe, next time. That's what happens. Are there any other nominations? All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of Vice Chair Tara Stanfield being reappointed as the Vice Chair of the Opioid Abatement Commission vote by the sign of aye. Aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Motion carried. You might want to text her so she don't have a heart attack. I think she knew. I think so, too. Yes. All right. Secretary. Who shall we have to continue to be for our Secretary for this year? I will make a nomination. But before I do, I want to say that I think the leadership team for this has been exceptional. And we're blessed, I think, to have yourself and Tara, if Tara accepts, in that lead. And because of that, I would nominate Connie Neal to continue in that same position. All right. Is there a second? I'll second that motion. Are there any other nominations? We have to close nominations. Is there a second? Second. Kimberly Baird. All right. The motion is to close the floor on the said nominations. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? All right. And so if you now would like to have Connie Neal as our Secretary again for this year, vote by the sign of aye. Aye. Anybody opposed? Connie, you didn't even vote. I didn't know if I was supposed to. I didn't either. All right. The motion has carried. Congratulations to you, Connie, for being reappointed as the Secretary of the Opioid Abatement Commission. Thank you all so much. Thank you. I'm honored as well. All right. We'll talk after the meeting, right? All right. All right. The next item on our agenda, we do have two presentations today, and so we do want to yield for these presentations. And as we always state, the Opioid Abatement Commission is here to listen and to hear. We are here only to make recommendations, but we don't get to vote or pass any funds to anyone. That is not our primary role. But we're grateful that you all are here today. And so we want to ask that Ashley Dunsmore of the Kentucky Nonprofits would come. And if you'd be so kind, the mic is on so that people that are watching can hear us and hear you. And again, we... Okay. Hold on. We want to make sure. Okay. I think we're safe. Thank you. Well, hold on just a second. I have your attention. The test of the firearm system is now complete. The officers and staff are now all ready. Please respond as directed for all firearms. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. The floor is yours. Thank you. And I'll wait until the presentation's pulled up here. All right. Hello. Thanks for having me today. My name's Ashley Dunsmore. I'm the Director of Regional Advocacy and Engagement for the Kentucky Nonprofit Network. I'm here on behalf of the Lexington Nonprofit Coalition today. So as you can see here, these are the members of the Lexington Nonprofit Coalition. We are a local advocacy alliance of Kentucky Nonprofit Network member organizations. So there's 39 organizations who are part of this coalition. And about 20 of those do some kind of prevention or treatment work in the substance use disorder space. And so I'll move on. Well, I do want to say you can see Chrysalis House is up there. And so we're grateful that Chrysalis House is part of the coalition. And Connie Neal is serving on this commission. So that's great. And then we'll go to the next slide. You have a clicker right there. Oh, I do. Okay. So who is – let's back up to Kentucky Nonprofit Network. We are a 501c3 state association of charitable nonprofits. So we have 1,100 organizations who are members statewide. And of those organizations, a lot of those are actually in the Bluegrass region. We started here in Lexington 23 years ago. And what we do is we advance the nonprofit sector through public policy advocacy, education, and connections through networking. So that public policy is a huge part of what we do. We advocate for the nonprofit sector at the local, state, and federal levels. And we provide education and resources like trainings on all kinds of stuff that nonprofits need, whether that's HR, finance, fundraising, whatever a nonprofit might need, we provide those resources for them. And then we provide network connections so nonprofits are collaborating and working together to serve communities. So a little bit about nonprofits in the state. I'm sure most of you are aware, either you either work at nonprofits or I'm sure partner with them frequently, but 13,587 charitable nonprofits are in Kentucky. One in ten private sector jobs are at nonprofits just in Kentucky. We are the fourth largest employer in Kentucky with 162,862 jobs and $27.4 billion in annual expenditures benefiting Kentucky's economy. A closer look at just the Bluegrass area nonprofits, there's 3,337 501c3 charitable nonprofits in these counties alone. And 877 charitable nonprofits with paid employees. And a $5.37 billion annual expenditure benefiting Kentucky's economy. And so here's a little glimpse from an Urban Institute 2024 survey of nonprofits in Kentucky. They reported that nonprofits were receiving government grants. 27% of those grants were from the federal level. 40% were from the state and 45% were from the local level. So you all know nonprofits are doing what government can't to serve our communities. And that is why government often funds nonprofits. And a lot of that money comes through the state and local level, which is why we are here as a state association to advocate for the sector at the state and especially local level with this Lexington Nonprofit Coalition. So a little bit more about the coalition here. Again, here are all the 39 member organizations and we're always growing. The impact of this coalition. So this coalition started in 2020. We've been meeting every month since. And together, these 39 organizations alone serve 968,488 constituents annually, which is way more than the population of Lexington. But you know that some people are served by multiple nonprofits at a time. And some of these organizations in the coalition are more regional in several counties surrounding Fayette serving those areas as well. We employees 7,000, over 7,000 employees are at these nonprofits. And we have a $582 million annual payroll and expenditures contributing to the Lexington economy. We know that 100% of Lexington residents benefit from nonprofits. We all benefit from the work of nonprofits, not just the folks who are going directly to that food pantry or the shelters. But we all benefit. And this is how the coalition is funded. Again, to reiterate how important government contracts are. Of these 39 member organizations, there's a total annual revenue of $613 million. But 72% of that comes from government grants and contracts. And 22% are from private donations from individuals, foundations, corporations, and then 6% from investment and interest income. So just background on the coalition. We've presented on funding challenges with council. We've provided lots of advocacy trainings to nonprofits to be effective advocates with government. We've done that with Civic Lex in the past, and we're doing it again this year. We've had council candidate forums where we invite all council members to come talk to nonprofits about their priorities and how they're going to support nonprofits. We've done orientation for new council members. We've met with Congressman Barr and worked on federal grants, had events with him. We've had events and worked on state legislation with Lexington area state legislators. And in October, when the city had a surplus in the fund balance, we advocated that the council contribute $500,000 of that towards the nonprofit capital grant program that is done by the city through the Department of Social Services, and they allocated that amount, thankfully. That program would have only had about $100,000 in that nonprofit capital grant program if council hadn't made that allocation and we hadn't advocated for that. So that's something we're proud of, and we're glad that that will be open to all nonprofits this August. So we're having a council nonprofit day on April 30th where all the council members will be meeting with the coalition members and getting to talk to them more about what they do and building those relationships with council. A few of our main priorities that we talk to council about here is we want nonprofits to have a seat at the decision-making table. So just like you all have Connie Neal on this commission, we want nonprofits to be a large role in helping solve the community's issues and working hand-in-hand with policymakers to do that. We want to streamline the city's grants and contracts with nonprofits. The city's grants and contracts are, by and large, great with nonprofits, but as things come up, we want to be a resource, and that's kind of why I'm here today, to talk about the Opioid Abatement Commission Potential Grant. And then the strategic city funding investments to address community needs. And when there's a community need, like addressing substance use disorder, addressing homelessness, or gun violence prevention, all things that this city cares about, thankfully, they're in all those areas working with nonprofits. And we're here to work with them and make sure that they're investing in the experts, which are nonprofits. Nonprofits are the ones out in the community working with those people every day. Chrysalis House is an expert on substance use disorder, especially with women, and then serving their families and children. So same for any others. We want government to see nonprofits as the experts when they're trying to solve an issue and work together. So I'm going to back up, just in case someone's watching on LexTV, because I know you all know these numbers. But I just want to recap how important, as you all know, these opioid settlement funds are. Kentucky has started to receive and will receive over, through 2038, $900 million from opioid litigation funds. 50% of that goes to the state, and 50% goes to split up between local governments. That's $450 million each. The Kentucky Association of Counties estimates that LFUCG will receive $14.5 million just for the county. That doesn't include the allocations that will be sent to LFUCG as a combined government for the city portion. There's 7.2 million currently available here at the city that we've received for these recommendations to carry out. And then payments will continue for the next 13 years. And Keiko estimates that, so Kentucky Association of County estimated payments each year through 2038 that will come to LFUCG. And those estimates include $625,959 this year, $722,588 next year, and the same the year following. And that fluctuates with increases or decreases of $100,000 in the years following. So again, that doesn't even include the parts that will come to the city of Lexington as well. So a lot of responsibility, a lot of money to address this issue. And we're so grateful for you all for serving and volunteering and making these recommendations to the mayor and council. So we, as a coalition, reviewed the recommendations you all made. And this information is actually feedback from the 39 organizations and just combined with KNN's 23 years of experience advocating for nonprofits and working on government grants and contracts reform. This is where these recommendations come from. So we know that you all are just recommending to the mayor and council and that we just want to make sure that some of these considerations, some of these things are taken into consideration. So a two year grant cycle is better than a one year. That's always going to be more helpful for nonprofits to have a longer time between having to put in all the legwork to apply. By the time they get those payments coming in, if they're granted the award, they get those payments, they have eight to nine months to actually do the work when it's a year cycle. So it's helpful to have a two year grant cycle or longer. Upfront payments are great, which we know the city does that through ESR. And we hope that will continue when this grant program is shaped. Upfront payments are better than reimbursable, right? It's really hard for a nonprofit to front a payment for a grant and then wait for a reimbursement. And then if those can be on a quarterly basis, that's even better for those payments. And then allowing for operating costs to be factored into the grant request. So you know that we can't do programs without staff and turning the lights on. So in order to actually get the programs done, those operating costs need to be allowed to be factored into that grant request. At the federal level, the minimum is 15% indirect costs right now unless the nonprofit has a better negotiated rate. And then we want to make sure that you all would consider grant awards above $50,000. It is really hard to make a dent or an impact with $50,000 in the substance use disorder space in prevention or treatment. For example, Hopkins County has put out a grant process that is allowing proposals up to $75,000. And they're a city of 45,000 people. And they're actually accepting grant applications above 75,000 even to consider. And then we want to make sure that you all consider, the city considers providing feedback to grantees who are not awarded. This just helps nonprofits, even if it's not detailed feedback, for them to know something about why they weren't granted so that they can maybe change that for the next time. As we know, this will be a long term grant program over the next 13 years. I do want to point out that several of our nonprofits, I'm so sorry, are in the room actually. We have Hope Center, the Living Arts and Sciences Center, and Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass here. And I know the Hope Center and other nonprofits here have received the state opioid grants so far. Some of them are starting to report, not necessarily the folks in the room, but others in the coalition have told me that they are getting less and less from the state. Because the state this year actually cut funding to one very small nonprofit who's doing incredible prevention work. And they said, you're only in Fayette County, go to your local opioid abatement commission and ask for those funds. Because unless you're doing stuff multi-county wide, the state is not wanting to fund that. They're saying that you need to depend on the local opioid abatement commission. So just a heads up on that. And then we're also encouraging nonprofits to advocate and talk to their judge executives in other counties. If they're serving Scott, talk to that judge executive. We're trying to help them be better advocates to not just look at Lexington, but if they're serving other counties, talk to those counties as well. Thank you for your service to our community. This is a huge task and I am just so grateful and so are all the nonprofits for all of the work you all have done on this commission as volunteers. Do you have any questions for me? Yes, yeah. Just real quick, a couple questions. I'm John Moses. It's very nice to have you here today. Can you tell me if this coalition has received any state funds? No, so this coalition, KNN, the Kentucky Nonprofit Network, nor this coalition does not receive grants. No, we are funded because members have an annual membership due as part of being a part of the network. I will say that those first rounds of recommendations that we made to the mayor, that $50,000 limit, we certainly intend on increasing that and providing grants well above that. We wanted to start with grassroots, small organizations who don't ever get the money because large corporations or groups come in and suck it all up. And so this first round was really to let individuals and smaller agencies that are working directly with people. So you can expect that we will be rolling out a lot of more opportunity for larger grants and larger projects. Yeah, great. Yeah, I just wanted to add Mark Woods. Thank you, Ms. Dunsmore, for the presentation. It sounds like you guys are doing a wonderful job with a lot of different organizations and pulling them together. I wanted to maybe address a couple of statements you made with regards to the grant program considerations. We appreciate them. And I would say, collectively, as John mentioned, we intend on doing more than just the $50,000 sort of thing. And we wanted to sort of give smaller organizations and smaller sort of efforts kind of first chance at some of these things. So we have that intention, as John mentioned. You also mentioned the two-year grant cycle. So we took that into consideration as well. We had a very robust, I would say, research on that and conversations, I would say. And the reason that we chose one year is because with some of our experience, this money is precious money, as we know. And it's to go to a very specific cause. And we've had some experiences in the past that a two-year grant cycle sometimes takes away the ability of the persons giving the money to be able to say, to be able to hold people accountable for outcomes and measures like that. So we appreciate the recommendation of the two-year grant cycle, but do know that we had a very robust analysis of that conversation internally. And that's why we chose that. Great. Thank you for the presentation. I guess I'm going to put my former council hat back on for a minute, just out of curiosity. Because what I have, well, actually, it applies now. We do have so many non-profits, specifically in Fayette County. But something that I've seemed to run into, or that I've observed, is that even when we're all focused on one topic, it's not necessarily any one organization's main focus. So I'm curious what kind of conversations you all have to kind of, to not streamline, but to coordinate and collaborate. Because that's something that I've just noticed. It's always, and I'll use the homelessness topic, that when I was on the homelessness prevention and intervention, there were maybe one, maybe two organizations where that was their main focus. And we had to get everyone else on board. It's always a component of non-profits. And I think that kind of then goes into the $50,000 grants and people getting smaller money. Because it's never, never is a strong word, but everyone's trying to do so many things. Is there a conversation about this organization takes the lead on this topic, and this organization takes the lead on that? And then collaborating more with each other. Because that's, and what I say now with people is that we've got great resources, but everybody's doing, it looks like everybody's doing a lot of different things. But having that conversation amongst yourselves, like, okay, who do we agree is a leader on this topic? And then we pour into that so maybe it is easier to give one organization more money and then you all decide how to work that through and filter it through to other organizations. But I'm just curious if those conversations happen. Because that's kind of what I see from the outside is that we've got a lot of problems, but there's not necessarily one organization taking the lead on a certain topic. And so everybody's fighting for the $50,000. And I'll speak from the council. That doesn't help us when we've got 20 people, organizations, arguing for the $50,000 or vying for it. And we all work together and know that. But I'm just kind of curious if that's been discussed or how that, if there's a different approach to that. So K&N does a lot of networking events and events to try to get nonprofits to be collaborating and working together for sure. And so this coalition actually meets monthly, and most of the members who come are the executive directors. And so I see collaborations happening at every single one of those meetings of them finding ways to work together. So it definitely is happening. I think that nonprofits are working to, there might be multiple nonprofits working on the same issue, but they might be serving different populations. So it just depends. And you can't always have one single nonprofit focused on just substance use disorder. However, there's Chrysalis House. There's Chrysalis House. There's Hope Center. There's plenty of people doing substance use disorder treatment. And then there's a million more doing prevention work and working with kids, whether that's mentoring Big Brothers Big Sisters or summer camps for kids with families affected by substance use disorder. So they're kind of each doing their own niche thing in the same broad area. Yeah, I just tossed that out there just as a thought. And while it's good people have their niche, it also creates a larger problem for, like you said, when we have big money to give out. So I don't know, just food for thought. But, yeah, I do appreciate the niche, but I see how the niche gets in the way, too. Yeah, and I don't envy the process of picking and choosing. All right. Thank you again, Ashley, for coming and sharing with us today. And, of course, I pretty much know about Chrysalis House and the Hope Center. So I was there for 22 years. And so I know about the work that they do in nonprofits. So thank you again for sharing. Jeff, Lott, and I have a question. Jeff, Lott, NetRecovery. Good morning. Good morning. My name is Jeff Lott. They call me the communications director at NetRecovery. I'll wait a moment until I— Yeah. We need to change the PowerPoint. Hold on, Jeff. Hold on just a second. I'll wait two minutes. It's okay. All right. First is the fire alarm. I can go ahead and start talking a little. We've been in Kentucky doing work about 20 years. We have something quite unique. It's a medical device that we've invented called the NET device. NET stands for neuroelectric therapy. It's the size of about a cell phone with some wires coming off. Little electrodes at the end go behind the ears. Powered by a 9-volt battery, it provides mild electrical stimulation to the brain. A little oversight of our history. We've been doing research and clinical trials since 2006 here, the most important of which we'll be diving into today. It was completed in 2023. We had 108 people. It was double-blinded, randomized, controlled, sham controlled. It completed in 2023. We took the data from that trial, submitted to the FDA, and they gave us clearance, full clearance for our device, less than a year ago in 2024. There's a CAD drawing of the device. It's got one control knob. That's what you see at the top middle there. It's patient controlled. It's an intensity knob, if you will, and it allows the amplitude, to use a technical term, of the waveform that's stimulating the brain. The little piece to the right there is actually where the wires would come off and continue above the drawing to connect behind the ears. Some highlights from the trial. Some pretty interesting things that came out of it. We were able to show that this device reduces withdrawal symptoms. This device is effective for people not only who struggle with OUD, but also polysubstance abuse. This device, I'll say, our active group stayed longer in ASAM levels of care, 3.5 and 3.1, than our control group, and the active group used less drugs after treatment with a 12-week follow-up. We believe that this is an important tool that, when utilized, can improve outcomes, both for people whose goal it is to be abstinent with medication and people whose goal it is to be abstinent without medication. We would cite the KRS Regs 15.29 subsection 5, which is shown later in the presentation, but we are a treatment for persons with OUD, for persons who have co-occurring SUD, and for persons who want abstinence-based treatment without medication. When it comes to withdrawal, we found that 98% of our subjects had a meaningful decrease in withdrawal symptoms within one hour of starting treatment. How do we define that? The FDA defined it for us before we started the trial. They said if you want to make the claim, you have to demonstrate that people have a reduction of a minimum of 15% within one hour of their CALS score. If anyone's not familiar with the CALS score, it's a rating system to judge how much pain and discomfort a person is in who's in acute withdrawal. You'll see most of our patients tested positive for more than one drug, over 70% fentanyl positive, and about half of them were on methamphetamines, with some cocaine thrown in there also. You'll see at the bottom of the site, we had our first paper published in Frontiers of Psychiatry just a couple of months ago. There's no paywall. It's free for anyone to see. It's peer-reviewed. And for those who are into the more technical aspects of this type of research, I would encourage you to look that up, either on the Frontiers of Psychiatry website, or you can find a link on our website, netrecovery.net. We found the device reduces craving. That's defined. That's self-reported. When patients are being treated, we basically interact with them. We have our own CALS score kind of system, but part of that is a few questions that ask about their craving level. You'll see the scale there on the left is zero through three. Three would be severe. Two is moderate. One is minimal. And zero is zero. Our active group, over half of them reported zero craving when they stopped using the device for more than 24 hours. The treatment had a maximum duration of seven days. So what this is saying is that the people who wore it for at least 24 hours and less than seven days reported having zero cravings for their substance of choice. Here are some bars on the left. It's showing the duration of stay, either at 3.5 or 3.1 levels of care. That would be residential treatment or sober living. The leftmost bar represents the active group who received treatment for more than 24 hours. And you can see they're clearly more likely to stay for longer in treatment. That's an important part of recovery success is getting people to stay in treatment. Unfortunately, a lot of people will leave in less than a week for a variety of reasons, but the least of which is not discomfort from withdrawals. Probably our most compelling slide. A lot going on here. If you look at the left graph, you'll see the vertical axis is measuring percentage use days of substance. And you can see the three substances that we've broken out there. That's post-treatment. The first thing that sticks out is the active group who used for more than 24 hours. They used much less opioids, much less psychostimulants, and they did not use much MOUD to accomplish that. Something interesting, the highest use of MOUD is actually not the sham group, but the active group who used the device for less than 24 hours. That's a strange thing that we did a post hoc analysis to try to figure out what is happening here. We believe that people were using the device to transition from their illicit drug use to medication. There were four facilities that people were being treated as part of this trial, and methadone was not an available medication in any of those facilities. But buprenorphine was. Buprenorphine has a waiting period to use because of precipitated withdrawals. That waiting period can be quite uncomfortable. We believe a lot of patients utilized the device to transition comfortably from the illicit to their medication, and that's what you're seeing here. We talked earlier about 90% of patients receiving a meaningful reduction in withdrawals. In fact, that standard was set at 15%. The average was actually 60% reduction within one hour of utilization. So it's not thought that the people who quit less than 24 hours weren't receiving benefit, more so that they were in that waiting period until they could get medication because their goal was to be abstinent with medication, which highlights an important part of this device. Not only is it useful for a person whose recovery goal is to be abstinent without medication, it's useful for those whose recovery goal is to be abstinent with medication. Both are well served with this treatment. If you look at the graph on the right, the vertical axis is no longer representing percentage use days, but rather percentage of patients who used any substance. So you'll see it's broken up about by months. The patients for those 12 weeks kept a daily drug journal of use, and they were drug tested once a week. So either a drug journal entry of positive use, or a drug test that's positive would be considered a use. They didn't have to match up. We made it hard for them to be considered clean, and we had either variable could be a factor in considering them used. So what you're seeing here is that our active group, more than 24 hours, between 10% and 20% of them still use substances, be it opioid, psychostimulants, or MOUT. But that means between 80% and 90% of them didn't use even one time. You can see that the group that utilized a transition stayed on their medication, and in fact increased it with that top pink line there. This is the counties that we're currently partnered with. Whoops. That slide's a little messed up, but if you could visualize a silhouette of Kentucky and all the counties, these are the ones that have partnered with us for context. Fayette County would be, if you see the little net recovery bubble and where it's pointing, that's actually Jessamine County, so Fayette's just to the northeast there. You've got Scott County, Woodford, Frankfurt, Shelby, Spencer, Meade, and Bullitt. And then down below we have Clay, Lincoln, and Letcher's counties. So we have ten county partners right now who have utilized some of their opioid settlement funds to sponsor their residents to receive this treatment. We currently treat in seven locations. You can see where the little badge is. Those are three detention centers. That's Meade County, Frankfurt County, and Scott County detention centers. And then we're in four residential treatment locations. That's part of the Isaiah House Network. Our hope is that we can get that Fayette County piece shaded there. These are the regulations that spell out appropriate uses for opioid settlement funds, and we believe that we explicitly qualify for what's listed here, outpatient or residential treatment, including abstinence-based treatment, any treatment which supports intervention, treatment, or recovery to persons with OUD or co-occurring SUD. So in summary and to address something more specific, our desire would be to partner with Lexington and Fayette County. Our desire would be to work with the Lexington-Fayette Detention Center and find a way to treat some of society's most vulnerable who often find themselves in there, similar to the models that we've done with three other counties so far in the Commonwealth. Everybody wants to know how much does this cost. We charge $5,500 per patient, which to the guy who just spent his last $20 getting high, is an extraordinary amount of money. To the parent who's spent $100,000 trying to get their loved one clean, it's not so much money. But for comparison's sake, it's around the same cost as three months of sublocate or vivitrol. We feel like the more tools that we have to combat this problem, the more success we'll have. And for 20-plus years, we've been doing a lot of great work. But we're here to introduce something new, something that can offer more options for those who have different recovery goals. And we're hopeful that this treatment will spread across first the state of Kentucky but also the country to offer more options and offer more hope to people who perhaps haven't had any. Questions? Yeah, I guess I can start. And thank you again for coming back. I think you've been here before. Another person from our organization has, but this is my first time actually. Okay. And so I wrote down several questions, but you answered one about the cost of $5,500 per patient. And so how do they pay for that if they don't have the funds? They don't. We're not approved by Medicaid yet. The only people who are receiving this treatment are people from those ten counties you just saw. Gotcha. And so in your presentation, you gave us some statistics. How many clients is a part of this? So the clinical trial for which we were looking at data, there were 108. 55 were active and 53 were sham or the inverse of that. I don't remember, but about half and half. In total in Kentucky, pre-FDA clearance, all of our trials, we treated about 600. But that last trial where we got the data we were just looking at, that was the only double-blinded trial. All the previous patients had been treated open label. Okay. Yeah. All right. And so if I were a client and I had the $5,500, walk me through the process. If I heard you correctly, you said this is patient, they monitor it themselves. They control it. Right. So right now we're only treating in a residential setting or in a detention center. Okay. So we'll talk through the residential setting first. If it's in a residential setting, they would check in just like any other patient. It could be KC's log there. It could be court ordered or they could just be there because they want help. If that's the case, then they would be given the option to say, are you interested in ET treatment? If they are, then we do a pre-screening. There are some medical disqualifications. I don't want to go into all of them, but the big ones would be traumatic brain injury, history of seizures, pacemaker, cochlear implant, those types of things. That would be a medical exclusion. It's available by prescription only, but the facilities where we work, their medical staff will write the prescription assuming it's appropriate. But, of course, it's a residential rehab facility, so almost everyone in there is struggling with substance abuse disorder. I don't know why else they'd be there. Assuming they medically qualify and the prescription is written, then we would bring them into our office. We do get a baseline of their withdrawal symptoms. Then we put the device on them, hand it to them. They have a little pouch. They can kind of wear it. It connects to their ears. We turn it on, or actually they turn it on, and they use that amplitude knob to get it to a level where they can sense the stimulation. And that's it. They go about their day as normal. We do a one-hour follow-up because we want to make sure that the treatment is working. In our box, we have about 20 different programs we run, depending on the combination of drugs in their system. Sometimes people don't know exactly what they were taking. And while we do drug test them right before we start them on the treatment, sometimes adjustments are needed. We check in with them twice a day as they're going about their day for up to seven days. Most people are complete with treatment in three to five days. And we say complete with treatment because the thing that I said is it's like a Cal score, but it's our own proprietary version. You'll see those numbers drop lower and lower and lower. And if they get below a certain threshold, then they're no longer experiencing virtually any withdrawals. And the truth is the device to a person who's no longer experiencing withdrawals can start to get a little irritating. And so they ask, I feel like I don't need this. Can I take it off? So we allow them to take it off. And then they continue to engage with the other services that the facility requires. People describe their mind as being much more clear, that a brain fog that oftentimes they haven't felt until they've gotten to several months from cessation of drug use. They get within a few days. And we believe that it's this clarity of mind and this quick reduction of withdrawal symptoms that keeps people in rehab longer. Because they're no longer fidgeting in discomfort and being pulled by this strong sense of craving. And it provides a better mental space for them to engage in the services being offered. Okay. I'm going to stop and let somebody else ask questions if they have any. Hi, I'm Margaret Piscicano. Thank you for coming again to represent this organization. Fascinating research. I've got, and you may have clarified this, and I'm sorry if I missed it, is the utilization of the device primarily as an alternative to MOUD or as an adjunct? So you'll hear us speak more about it as an alternative simply because that's something that's distinctive to us. But we don't, I mean it certainly can successfully be used as a transition device from, we feel like that's an appropriate use of it. Some people, everyone doesn't have the same recovery goal. Some people have a desire to be abstinent with medication and this can help them do that. Help them do it well. Some people have a desire to be abstinent without medication and it can help them too. So it's really for everyone who wishes to be abstinent from the illicit. But frankly, I mean, you don't need this device to be abstinent with medication. The medication works great. It would simply make that transition a little easier in the case of buprenorphine. But does that answer the question? That's helpful. And in terms of the duration of treatment, is this intended for that acute phase of withdrawal? Or is there any use for it in the first two years of recovery when someone is continued to be plagued by cravings? So we have done research into that and we have found some success. But we've also found that it's best used during the withdrawal phase. That gives us the best results. Great, thank you for that clarification. Yeah, I think it was a great presentation. Appreciate the update. Just a couple of questions. It sounds like to me that this is intended for facilities and also for individuals, right? So my question would be for the facilities, this is a unit that could be used with multiple patients, right? In other words, you're not having to buy a product for every single patient. No. It would just be a service. Let me clarify. We invented and manufactured the device, but we don't sell the device. We're full service. So it's our employees that treat people with it. Okay. That was going to be my next question. So what sort of support do you then provide? So it sounds like it's really sort of the coordination and initiation. So do you mean support? Support, do you mean like to the patient long term? Well, to the patient or to the facility? So we're turnkey, so we would operate inside someone's facility, but we handle everything in terms of this net device treatment. So that we would be like, I'm trying to think of an example. We would, if you go to, today if you check into Isaiah House for rehab services, you have the option to, if you're from a- sponsored county to utilize this treatment. And so you could look at, in that sense, we're week one of their six-week program. Got you, yeah. So essentially, like the Hope Center or Chrysalis House wouldn't have their own device and use it, or. Our staff. It would be a service inside of Chrysalis. Correct. Is this like a TENS unit? So there's some similarities to TENS units, an electrostimulator. It uses more powerful stimulation to stimulate muscles, whereas this is tiny to stimulate brain waves. Smaller frequency, yeah. No, thanks. One thing I didn't mention, if you all are interested to know, is how do we use it in the detention center? May I speak on that? What usually happens is a combination of our staff, the jail staff, and the contracted medical staff for the detention center. We've kind of set criteria of one, who medically qualifies, and two, who would just be a good patient to use this on. They come in not too long after last use. Once they enter withdrawals, we go through a similar process of one, they have to want to do it. No one's forcing them to, assuming that they want to and they meet those medical qualifications. Then they'll be put into isolation with a device for the three to five day period. Our staff works inside the jail to check on them, just like we would inside a residential facility. And once they're finished, we take them off the device and they go back in with the general population. Sometimes it's worked out with the court system, the judge, to then send them on to a rehabilitation facility. Now, they're no longer going through withdrawals and dealing with these intense cravings, and so you have the same result. They're much more able to engage in the services that those facilities offer. Jeff John Moses, I've just got a couple questions. I've been looking at this a lot, and I'm actually quite fascinated by it, but I have a couple of questions. The first time this was presented to us, well, today it's gone up $500 from the last time it was presented to us. And the sale rate of this product is anywhere from $600 to $1,000. And there's not really any information about the cost to produce an individual advice available. So I'd kind of like to know, I'm always going to talk about the money and the specifics. Because so much money gets sucked up by a lot of stuff that doesn't directly affect the client. So can you tell me what the profit margin is on any of this? Or it's my understanding this was a California-based CEO that was over this, yet here in Kentucky it seems to be marketed as a Kentucky-based group or a Kentucky-based product. That was a lot. Okay, that was a lot. Okay, I'm trying to figure out which one to answer first. So all of our operations have been in Kentucky for the last 20 years. Our CEO has a house in California because he has another job. We're a small company. We've done a lot of our research on nights and weekends because we're normal people with normal jobs. So as far as the cost is concerned, I'm not sure, you said the cost of it's $600, I'm not familiar with that. We've never sold devices, so. But yeah, we're selling a service and not a machine. So if you look at the cost, again, compared to three months of sublocate or Vivitrol or even Medicaid pays just for the residential portion of a rehab attempt, at least $12,000 just for the housing. That's on top of all the therapy that gets billed and all the other things. And many people go through rehab, four, five, six, seven attempts. Talking about six figures for attempt, $5,500 for a service that we believe has a great success rate and is an incredible value. Sure. Thank you. Yeah. Just one comment, Matt Greathouse. I think you came to my office last year or- I did. Yeah, and I saw this presentation with a few of their folks. My board members and anybody else listening, the final fix, the Amazon special, really, really shows how this works in the real world. I'm more of a results-based kind of person. I've seen in my career the bad times of where that vulnerable period after last use and the withdrawal is violent, nasty, and nobody really wants to go through that. And I can understand, not having been there, I can understand why that somebody would just want to just take something to get away and get away from that feeling. And watching this thing before the FDA approval, I think, is pretty profound. I think it's a great device and I think it's a wonderful thing to be able to bring people that transition that bridge. So, that's all I want to say. Jeff, I just have a real kind of quick question. Polyvagal therapy, is this kind of similar? Because I know with polyvagal therapy, you can buy these little stimulators that stimulate the vagus nerve. And does this work similarly, or have a similar concept? I probably shouldn't comment because I'm not very familiar with that, but if polyvagal, is that referring to the vagus nerve? So, we do believe that part of the relief that we're seeing in the withdrawal symptoms is stimulation of that vagus nerve. So, in that sense, it would be similar, yeah. Thank you. Well, and it's actually kind of more of a comment. Now, I appreciate the presentation, because in my mind, I'm kind of equating this to how we use ankle monitors. It is a device that is for a short-term, specific reason. I don't know who actually, if court systems contract out with companies to do that, or if it's an internal thing, I guess, in that. But that kind of goes back to my comment about the coalition kind of like is maybe, and I'm not trying to blow up your business model either. But it's kind of, is this something that should be targeted towards individual non-profits, so that they can then come and ask for money specifically for this, and teaching them how to monitor it, or that's part of the contract. So that's, it's really just a comment, but I'm just curious if that's a possibility, and then, and I don't, I'm curious why it's not in, we have an Isaiah House here, right? You have outpatient here, I believe. Okay, it's outpatient, okay. See, I'm not completely. So there could be people engaging with it that were on it when they were an inpatient. Okay, so it would be only for inpatient. That, okay, that's how it's geared. Okay, well, that's helpful to know, too. We do hope that to your, I don't know if this is where you're going with this, but we do hope in the future that this could be something that could be utilized, like you start your treatment and you get to go home, and you use it, and you just, someone comes and checks on you or something. We're just, we're not in a place to do that yet, but we do see that as a potential use in the future, and to make it more widely available. And that's where I was going, because again, duplicate services, people that are already in, wherever someone might be getting their core treatment. And one for me, I'm just thinking about the actual patient. It's one less person that they have to engage with in trying, who's trying to keep up with them. So that, just thinking out loud, but I appreciate the concept, but just- We also have to be careful, because we feel like we handle the physiological part of addiction very well, but oftentimes there's a lot of psychological components to it that we don't address. Which is why we're partnered with people like Isaiah House, because they do address those other things. So it's really the combination of the two that we think will bring the most success. We feel like this treatment should always be used in conjunction with wraparound services. All right. Thank you. All right, I have one more question. And you may have said it and I missed it, because you said it was $5,500 per patient. And Medicaid does not cover it. And so, what's the funding sources in the detention centers? The county opioid settlement funds. So, in Scott County, the fiscal court has set aside money for us to do that. I think that gets to Angela's question. It's kind of like, what's the ask here? It really needs to be the ask through the jails or the organization. Maybe Chrysalis House comes forward and said, here's our plan, we want to use this device, and here's what we're going to, but I agree, Angela, I had the same question. So the ask would be for the Metro Council, I suppose it is, to set aside a certain amount of money to say, just do a pilot program. Say that you're going to treat 50 people, and then they're going to know. If we do it in the jail, then they know who those 50 people are, and they'll be able to see, do they keep coming back to jail, or were they able to actually change their life? And once you do that, you can see, hey, there's a big benefit here, let's do more, but let's test it first. That would be the ask. One last question, and then I'm off of this. I'm just curious. Just one, yeah, as a pastor, I would say, just give me, I'm almost done. And so, in the presentation, you said that there was a 12-week follow-up. Is there any other follow-ups after this 12 weeks is over to see how the clients are doing? So, part of that clinical trial, it was only the 12 weeks. When you saw our history, and we had other trials that we ran, and I mentioned those were all open label, which is why we won't stand as firmly on that data publicly, because oftentimes an open label trial won't stand up to the same scrutiny, but we had similar results up to a year out. That's the furthest we've tracked people officially. Of course, there's some that we still know anecdotally, how they're doing. But that starts getting expensive to track people for years and years and years, and we don't have hundreds of- I wouldn't expect years and years and years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, at least a year. You're a follow-up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we have done that in the past, yeah. Okay, all right, I guess I'll stop questioning. Anything else? I have one final comment. Super, one final, I promise. Super interesting technology appears to be evidence-based in its effectiveness. Currently, from what I'm understanding, fairly labor intensive for net recovery to administer this service. In the future, it would be great to see the device available for sale with training to staff so that they could administer it in-house, which I would anticipate would greatly increase access. Part of our secret sauce, if you will, is our ability to collect data from each patient, and that's something that we hold dear because it allows us, this can respond to changes in what's being used out there. Let me give you a quick example. There's something called Xylazine, which is a horse tranquilizer. I believe they started abusing it in Philadelphia and it's spread to Kentucky now. People will mix that with fentanyl because it extends the high. Well, there was a time, a year or two, three, somewhere around there ago, when people actually weren't responding quite as well to our treatment as we had seen previous. Usually that's an indication there's some adulterant that's been mixed in with the substances that we have programs to treat. As we collect data on that and we tweak the programming, we were able to adjust and create a new program that's now able to handle fentanyl mixed with Xylazine and still help people get through the withdrawals. But if we sell a device and say good luck, then it might not work for someone very well. And they're going to say, well, this doesn't work. So us to be able to control that data and adjust as needed is something we think is vital to keep this relevant and to keep it effective and successful. So perhaps there's a way to work that on in the future remotely. But as of today, we take that seriously, being able to continually refine and iterate to make it better and better as drug culture changes. All right. Thank you so much, Jeff. Again, thank you, Ashley, and for all of you who are present, all the non-profits that are present. Do we have any open comment? None? All right. I'm a lady rival. I apologize for that. I'm actually a member of the Scott County Fiscal Court. I noticed Jeff was talking about what's going on in our contingency. Hold on just a second. If I'm going to allow you to speak, you're not on the agenda. But I'm going to allow you if you'll come to the mic. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. You're welcome. Again, I apologize. That's all right. You're good. Being so late. My name's Rick Hostetler. I have the privilege to serve the first district on the Scott County Fiscal Court. And I guess it's not been a year, but it's coming up on a year that we partnered with NetRecovery. And probably four months ago now, we were actually treating in our jail. And we've probably treated close to, I haven't checked with the jailer in a couple of weeks, but we were in the 20s already. We're probably pushing 30, but we've already treated, we committed to 34 folks. We're past that now. We just recently recommitted to treat 20 more with a potential to treat 20 more after that Scott County citizens. So if you show up in our detention center, we have a captive audience. And if they qualify, they have to go through a screening process. I don't know all of those details, but I would encourage you guys. KET came to our jail about two weeks ago. They did a short clip. They interviewed three inmates. And one of the things that I think is astounding, two things. One of them is they all three talk about how there's almost no withdrawals issues. They don't get sick, they don't have the body aches, and etc, etc. The second thing that all three of them say in this interview is they no longer have the craving. So one fellow, I believe he says on the interview that he's been, was treated about three months ago, two to three months ago. He's still incarcerated. He has no craving, which is huge in my mind. And then another gentleman has been there about two months since he's been treated, no craving. And then I think they interviewed a young lady who was a few weeks out from being treated. She has the same thing. One gentleman says that, the one that's two months ago, I think, he was treated in our jail, says that he no longer even dreams about it. The way he explained it, that when he was using, he was even dreaming about his next fix. That's a little over the top, I've never heard anybody say that before. He says he don't even dream about it. So one of the things our jailer has told me that has been really beneficial, because he's seeing all this live and in color, how it's helping these folks. But one of the things that's making it easier, these folks are easier to handle. It's a much more pleasant stay for the inmate, because they're not withdrawn without help. And it's much more pleasant for the staff to deal and handle and take care of the inmates. And so again, I'll take questions if you got any, but I'm thankful that you gave me this opportunity to speak. But I would really encourage you guys to really look at this. To me, it puts recovery on steroids. And I'll share one other thing. The first fellow that got treated in Kentucky after FDA approval has actually become a friend of mine. My wife and I, we're mentoring him. He was in addiction, he's 54 years old. He was in addiction from about 15, and he's from right here in Fayette County. He wound up in Scott County, homeless actually. We began to help him before they got FDA approval. He's now got a really good job here in Lexington, and he's got his own apartment. He's never had any of those things. And the one thing he told me when he got through with the five day treatment, he called me, and the very words were, this ball and chain of addiction, Rick, is gone. He said, I don't desire it. And to this day, if he were standing here beside me, he'd tell you, he don't even think about that. In fact, he's told me he don't really remember what it was like to be on drugs, to be addicted. So anyhow, thank you. Thank you so much for sharing. All right, all right, anything else before this commission today? All right, if not, again, we thank everyone for being here today. And our next meeting will be on May the 9th, right here at 10 AM. And so, we look forward to seeing you all then. 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bad luck Had enough, bad luck I need something that can't be brought up Had enough, bad luck No more bad luck Had enough Had enough No more bad luck Had enough Had enough No more bad luck When Black Friday comes I stand down by the door And catch the gray men when they dive from the four-peat floor When Black Friday comes I collect everything I own And before my friends find out I'll be on the road When Black Friday falls You know it's got to be Don't let it fall on me When Black Friday comes I fly down to Muswell Brook Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book Gonna do just what I please Gonna wear no socks and shoes With nothing to do but feed all the kangaroos When Black Friday comes I'll be on that hill You know I will When Black Friday comes I'm gonna dig myself a hole Gonna lay down in it till I satisfy my soul Don't let the wall pass by me The archbishop don't sanctify me Don't let the wall pass by me The archbishop don't sanctify me And if he don't come across I'm gonna let it roll When Black Friday comes I'm gonna stick my game Against the gentleman . . . . . . Out in the street It's six a.m. Another sleepless night Three cups of coffee But I can't clear my head From what went down last night I know we both have our own little ways But somehow we keep it together You hit me tough but you don't hear what I say I guess it don't even matter Blue morning, blue day Won't you see things my way Blue morning, can't you see What your love has done to me I've always listened to your point of view My ways have tried to mend And I've always been a patient man But my patience has reached its end You tell me you're leaving You tell me goodbye You say you might send a letter Well, honey, don't telephone Cause I won't be alone I need someone to make me feel better Blue morning, blue day Won't you see things my way Blue morning, can't you see What your love has done to me Blue morning, blue day Won't you see things my way Blue morning, can't you see What your love has done to me Blue morning, blue morning Blue morning, blue morning Blue morning, blue morning Blue, blue, blue day Blue, blue, blue day Hey, kid Tell me gently Let me down The easy way Make me feel you still love me If it's just Just for one more day Break it Tear me gently So my tears, my tears Won't fall too fast If you must go Then go slowly Let me love you Till the last Love we shared For so long It's such a big part of me If you must take Your loving way Take it gradually Break it Tear me gently Give me time Oh, give me a little time The easy way If you must go Then go slowly Cause I'll never Never leave If you must take Your loving way Take it gradually Break it Tear me gently Give me time Oh, give me a little time The easy way Love me just a little longer Cause I'll never Never, never again Cause I'll never I'll never love again I'll never Never Baby, I don't understand Why we can't just hold on To each other's hands This time might be the last I fear Unless I make it all too clear I need you so Oh, oh, oh Take these broken wings Take these broken wings And learn to fly again Learn to live so free When we hear the voices sing The book of love will open up And let us in Take these broken wings Baby, think tonight We can take what was wrong And make it right Baby, it's all I know That you're half of the flesh And blood that makes me whole I need you so So take these broken wings And learn to fly again Learn to live so free When we hear the voices sing The book of love will open up And let us in Yeah, yeah Never free Never free Baby, it's all I know That you're half of the flesh And blood that makes me whole Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah So take these broken wings And learn to fly again Learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing The book of love will open up And let us in Take these broken wings You've got to learn to fly Learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing The book of love will open up For us and let us in Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah Can't buy me love Love Can't buy me love I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend If it makes you feel all right I'll get you anything, my friend If it makes you feel all right Cause I don't care ¶¶ On this edition of Lexington Now, 250 Lex Music Month, therapeutic recreation hockey and severe weather prepare. ¶¶ ¶¶ I'm Neal Noah, and welcome to Lexington Now for the week of April 7th, 2025. April is Music Month during the 250 Lex year-long celebration. We drop by the Borough for Mayor Gordon's announcement. 25 different venues will showcase music performances to help celebrate 250 Lex Month of Music. It's going to be really exciting. This part of the country just comes alive during the month of April. You know, the flowers start blooming, the weather starts warming, people are looking out to go out and do a lot of fun things. So about a year ago, we learned that Tyler Childers, who actually performed on this very stage several years ago, who's vaulted to... obvious stardom, was going to play a major event at Kroger Field on April 19th. That was something that got us very excited, because obviously of Tyler's roots here and what he's gone on to do, but it also excited us to say, let's step back and take a look at dedicating a whole month to music. And music has been something that has been woven throughout the history of Lexington from its early days. Literally the first performance of a Beethoven symphony in the United States was in Lexington, Kentucky. That's pretty phenomenal. So we took the moment, if you will, from the Tyler Childers announcement and decided, let's build a month of music. My father told me long ago, you can't make everybody happy all the time, but thanks to Mr. Helmer's here and the city of Lexington, we're doing everything we can. You know, literally from children's shows to recognizing women writers, lyricists in the city of Lexington. We try to map out a month that is really unparalleled. It's an exciting month ahead of us. We're just getting into April now, but if you look at the calendar, you'll find that every day in April, there is something to go and see. And the majority of those opportunities or a lot of those opportunities are free. We wanted to create something that was accessible and appealed to various tastes. So whether you are into symphonic music, hip hop music, world music, blues, rock and roll, Americana, there's something on the calendar that you'll find. We encourage you to look into it. And as these guys have said, whether it's a listening room, a honky tonk, a dive bar, a theater, an arena or a stadium, there's something on the calendar. And we have tried to shine a light or pull back the curtain on the vibrant arts community and vibrant music scene that we have here in Lexington. So we will be paying tribute to everything that makes us proud to call Lexington home in music. And as David said, there are lots of venues. You can find whatever it is you enjoy or like. So get your friends, hit the town, look at our website, 250lex.com, and you'll see all the scheduled performances and live music. April is the heart of spring severe weather season in central Kentucky. Emily Fay of Emergency Management gives us some pointers to stay safe. They say April showers bring May flowers, but they also bring severe storms. And with that, severe storm damage. So last week we had a severe storm roll through the Lexington area, and we were hit with straight line winds. I believe the National Weather Service said it was between 85 to 95 miles per hour winds, which caused a lot of damage. So what we want people to know and understand is that it's time to be prepared for those things. Having an emergency plan and having an emergency kit are some of the most important things you can do before a storm hits. So for an emergency plan, let's say for a family of four, that would include where you're going to go if you can't stay at your house, where you're sheltering your house if it's a severe storm. Let's say thunder, lightning, or a tornado shelter within your house, usually an interior room or closet, bathroom. And any other planning you would need to do to take care of your family. So those with young children would have diapers and toys and extra clothes. Those with older children might have books and homework and things to keep them entertained. If you're a family that includes taking care of an elderly person, you want to make sure you have their medications, medical records, and any other medical devices they need to keep them going. The best time to prepare for a new emergency happening or another weather event is right after one has just occurred. So you may have had your supplies ready, but now it's time to refresh, and it's time to think about what you might need the next time this happens. So it's a blue sky day. You don't want to think about something bad happening, but weather is unpredictable and we need to be prepared. So now's the time to sit down and go, okay, we didn't have power. What do we do about food? How do we get our medications refilled? Did our pets have enough food? How much do we need to keep in spare? Just make a list and check it off as you go. It doesn't have to be done all in one Saturday afternoon. You can spread out over a month, make a weekly checklist, and just build your kit back up. It's always good to keep that emergency supply kit in something waterproof, like a Rubbermaid tote or a waterproof backpack. They even make five-gallon buckets you can cinch up, and now you have a way to carry water as well. Just do what works for your family, but it's important to do it. So every emergency kit will vary by family based on that specific family's needs, but in general, you should have enough non-perishable food and bottled water for three days per person. So a family of four, four servings a day per meal per person. And you'll also need to have a first aid kit, medical supplies, prescriptions for your family, blankets, flashlights, extra batteries, a weather radio with extra batteries. Make sure all of your emergency electronics are battery powered so that you can switch those out and still use them when the light goes out. If your family includes pets, if you have a cat or a dog, parakeet, you want to include them in your emergency plan, making sure you have food and water for them, about a gallon a day for dogs and cats, depending on the size. Obviously, Great Danes are going to need more water than Chihuahuas, but making sure you have that with you, an extra leash, a collar, any medications they may take, toys to keep them occupied. Pets get stressed too. You want to keep those anxiety levels down, and everybody loves a good toy, and making sure that you're prepared to bring them with you and that they're a part of your emergency plan. So where you go when you evacuate because your house is flooding needs to include a safe place for your dog or cat or parakeet to go with you. I would keep your emergency kit somewhere you can easily access it. Some people keep it in a utility closet or a linen closet. I know mine, personally, is tucked in the back of the pantry in my house. Ideally, we would suggest people check their emergency kits once a month to make sure your food's in date, nothing's gone bad, your medications like Tylenol, Advil, are still good, and that nothing has been worn apart with age. However, if you can't do that, it's just a little too daunting, you can always do it by season, so spring, summer, winter, fall, which is a good idea to check to replace those emergency clothings because you need different stuff in the winter than you do need in the summer. So if you have to be out in severe weather, obviously, it's best to stay safe. So depending on your severe weather, thunder, lightning, those actions are going to differ. Stay aware of your surroundings, keep away to have emergency alerts, weather alerts if you're going to be outside, and above all, take care of yourself and those who are with you. A watch and a warning, constantly issued by the National Weather Service or other local alerting agencies, sound very same, you've got a watch, you've got a warning, but the difference is sometimes confusing. So a watch is when a weather event may happen, the possibilities are there, you have all the ingredients, but it's not yet happening, whereas a warning is when all of those pieces have come together and it's either going to happen or already has happened. So if you think about it in terms of tacos, a watch is when you have all of your taco ingredients laid out in front of you, but you have not combined it. A warning, on the other hand, is when you've taken all of those ingredients and put them into your taco shell and now you have a taco. The best way to be prepared is to stay notified, whether that be having a weather radio or getting your emergency alerts following local news outlets, just to make sure that you have that information coming in when you need it. If you live within Lexington and Fayette County, you can sign up for LexAlerts on our website, BeReadyLexington.com and opt in to weather notifications and any other type of notifications we offer to be alerted when something happens. And it's a free service that sends a notification via text, phone call, to a landline, even an email, when they're ready to go out. When we come back, the Thunderpucks. Hi, everyone. Here it is, April. Spring has sprung and our 250th anniversary celebration continues. This month, we are celebrating all things music and the written word. From writers and poets to musicians and performers, we've got it all. Take part in celebrations of our literary community with writers known across all America. Over 25 different venues await you in April to help celebrate our first ever one-of-a-kind month of music. There is truly something for everyone. For more information, visit www.250lex.com. Hello, I'm Lieutenant Chris Van Brackle with the Lexington Police Department Traffic Unit. Today, we are talking about disability accessible parking and the aisles between those parking places. Accessible parking is a valuable and necessary resource for people with disabilities, and that includes the striped area next to accessible parking spots. These are access aisles, and it is illegal to park here, even if you have an accessible parking permit. Police in Lex Park will write tickets when they see vehicles parked in an access aisle or parked in an accessible space without a placard, and the fine is $250. Know where and where not to park, keep the access aisles clear. Thank you, and drive safe. Welcome back to Lexington Now. An annual tradition took place recently with Lexington's Thunderpucks taking to the court. Our own Tyler Rowlett was there, and he gives us this report. We are outside the Dunbar Center here in Lexington, where we saw some of the fiercest competition Lexington has seen in who knows how long, with the annual Therapeutic Recreation Hockey Game. It was a packed gymnasium here at the Dunbar Community Center for this year's edition of the Therapeutic Recreation Hockey Game, a game that has been an annual tradition for quite some time now, and an annual tradition that's been growing every year. This is the 21st match, so it happened before I came on, so it could have been a couple matches in a year, I don't know, but it's the 21st match. The Therapeutic Recreation Fitness Program goes on on Tuesdays and Thursdays here at Dunbar Community Center, and part of their competition was that they challenged many, many years ago with Marka Duncan, who's now retired from Parks and Recreation and Senior Services. She started this program as a competition, as a good-natured competition, I should say, between Parks and Recreation staff and the Therapeutic Recreation participants. We probably had more people on our team this year for Parks and Recreation than we've had in forever, so it's a nice way for them to get out of the office for a little while, have a little friendly competition while there's a March Madness thing going on, even though this isn't basketball, and our participants, they love and adore getting to compete against the Parks and Recreation staff. Parks and Recreation staff was more than ready for this good-natured competition, with some staff members trying to bend the rules, arguing their case to officials, and ending up in the penalty box. And while today was all about the hockey game, Therapeutic Recreation staff are passionate about what they do and enjoy providing many different opportunities for people of all ages to get out and enjoy in Lexington. And I love working with the participants that come out and enjoy to do recreation, to ride horses, to swim, to bowl. So the participants is one, and then the variety of things that we get to do with the participants and the relationships we build with them and their families. We run programs year-round. We serve ages 5 and up. I think our oldest participant is like 67 now. And we do everything from a fitness program to an outdoor nature explorer's program. We have an aquatics program. You name it, we've done it. And if we haven't done it, we'll probably get ready to do it. And when the final buzzer sounded, it was the Therapeutic Recreation participants who came out on top. But there were smiles, handshakes, high fives, and good sportsmanship all around. There's so many different things that they can get involved with, whether it be a summer camp during June and July, or our programs that run in the fall and spring. They can check out our website. They can stop by. They can call Jill or myself, and we'd love to introduce them to any of our programs that would benefit them. At the Dunbar Community Center, Tyler Rowlett, LexTV. Council Spring Break continues, but so does our live meeting coverage on LexTV and streaming online. And remember, you can also find the most up-to-date information on non-televised city business at lexingtonky.gov. Here's this week's meeting coverage. That's all for now, but as always, you can keep up with us on social media, check out the latest traffic updates on XLXRex, or catch our live traffic cams on lexingtonky.gov. For all of us at LexTV, I'm Neil Noah, and that's it for now. Hey, it's Baja Nicole with another episode of Your Lex PD. We are in season two, episode two. We're going to be talking with the Victims Advocacy Program that's under the Special Victims section here at the Lexington Police Department. Yeah, and it's such a great program. A lot of times when we talk about law enforcement, you think about solving crimes, you think about officers responding to crimes, but sometimes we forget about the fact that there are victims, there are victims' families out there that have to navigate their way through the system after the fact, and we don't want to forget about them. No, we don't. We want to take care of them. And so this month, we're going to spend some time talking with them, see what kind of programs and resources are out there. So let's go talk to the Victims Advocate Program. All right. Hi, we are here with Ms. Letitia Hagerman and Ms. Cornetta Harris. And they are with the Victims Advocate Program with the Special Victims section. Thank you all for joining us. So law enforcement, many times when we think of that, we think of solving the crimes, responding to the crimes, the detectives solving the crimes, but we don't think about the victims. And we don't think about the victims' families. So obviously that's very important and something that the Lexington Police Department is extremely committed to work with and help these folks. So give us some examples of ways that this program helps those victims and families. So a lot of what we do, what we're talking about here is the follow-up, okay? So if you have had to have police to your home or someone has had to call police to your home, we already know that you have survived a traumatic event. And it's very natural and normal to wonder, what do I do now? What happens next? What can I do to keep myself safe? What are my rights? And so that's where we come in and we will reach out and contact by phone primarily, but also in person too as well, any survivors of an intimate partner violence, interpersonal violence, or any violent crime as well. And just let them know what the next steps are in prosecution. We can register them with Vine to be notified if their offender is released from custody. Let them know when their next court date is. All victims, thanks to Marcy's Law, have the right to be notified in a timely manner of court proceedings as well as attend those court proceedings. So we call and let people know what their rights are as a survivor of a violent crime in Lexington. And you hear people talk about Marcy's Law more now, obviously, so that's really one of the major components of that is the notification process. It is. Marcy's Law made victims' rights in Kentucky a constitutional law. And so victims and survivors have the right to be heard in court proceedings involving their offenders. We work with every unit, every section of the police department, but if you are a survivor of an intimate partner violence crime, or we're talking about a crime against a child, you are also going to get assigned a detective who is highly trained, trauma-informed, victim-centered, and is also going to follow up with you as well. So all of our detectives in our unit are also very well trained. They're like advocates as well. So it is very much a team effort between us and the detectives to make sure that anybody who has survived a violent crime in Fayette County, especially when we're talking about domestic violence or interpersonal violence, is going to be very well taken care of. So it's more than just the justice of getting the crime through the court system. It's about helping those victims all the way along. Very much so. And in a lot of cases, the investigation is still ongoing. If the patrol officer could not make an arrest due to various reasons at the scene, there's going to be a detective that's going to follow up and take those next steps and go above and beyond for that victim. And every single one of our detectives in the special victim section does that. And I've heard you say before that Lexington, and I think I've heard you say it too, that Lexington is very resource-rich. And that's really what you all do, is kind of put people in touch with those resources. And what are some of those resources? So we are extremely fortunate in Fayette County to be partnered with a lot of our outside agencies. A lot of what we do is referral-based. So our job is to make sure that victims and survivors get connected to resources to get help and get the next steps. We're very fortunate to have Stephanie Theakston in our Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition board. We are a member there, and she provides us with resources for survivors of domestic violence to help them with their next steps, like providing them with security equipment and things that they might need to feel safer in their home. We're also very fortunate to be partnered with Devon Karama and One Lexington. And so he helps us provide access to programs and counseling and support for families who have survived an incident in Fayette County involving gun violence. So it's a huge program, what he's doing there. We work very closely with the other advocates at the county attorney's office, as well as the commonwealth, so that the survivor has a streamline from the arrest to prosecution. And so hopefully the process for them is a little easier, given what they have survived. Okay. Now, does your program refer the victims to these, or can they reach out and call them? Or does it have to? It's a little bit of both. It's a little bit of both. We communicate weekly with the county attorney's office. It's basically just communication to let them know what we've done with the victim, just so that, you know, because a lot of times victims, they may tell us one thing, but then tell them another thing. So it's just a way of communicating to see kind of just where we're going with that person. Kind of keep everybody in the loop. Exactly. So how would someone get in contact with you all? With the passing of Marcy's Law, try, with there being the four of us, we try to assign an advocate to as many case reports every single day as we possibly can. So ideally, if you're a victim of a violent crime in Fayette County, you shouldn't have to do anything. We will reach out to you. But if you need us, if you have a follow-up question, if there's anything we can do to help you, you can call 258-3700 and ask to speak to one of us. So it's more than just resources, right? And I've heard you all talk about this before, and the Lexington Police Department obviously very committed to this, that sometimes people just need to, when they're a victim or a victim's family, sometimes they just need to ask questions, they need to have answers. But I've heard you say before that sometimes they just need someone there for them. Yes. That's a very good point. Sometimes we're not going to make a referral. Sometimes we're not going to provide certain things. Sometimes what anybody might need after surviving a tragic situation is just somebody to talk to. And that seems like a small thing, but it's incredibly valuable. It's incredibly valuable to have somebody to talk to. You've just survived a violent crime, and you just want to talk it out with somebody. And we do that day in and day out, every day. We sometimes have communication with survivors. We no longer are working their case, but they still call and check in. A lot of times, too, and like Tisha was saying, just to kind of feed off of her, is that it may not be a referral place because there's a lot of times that victims will also come into the lobby and want to speak to us, and it's just a matter of just, like you said, just listening and just hearing them out, and it may not be an actual referral that we get. So a lot of times we get individuals from just that may not be a referral to us, and they'll call us from downstairs and say, hey, so-and-so is here, can you speak to this person, provide them with victim services? And we make ourselves available for that as well. Awesome. Well, we thank you all for joining us today, and I've learned a lot more about the Victims Advocates Program. Yes. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Yes, no problem. Yes, you are very welcome. Hello. We are here with Ms. Robin Anderson and Marisol Contreras. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having us. Absolutely. So you all also work with the Victims Advocates Program. Yes, ma'am. Yes. And one of the things you do is what's referred to as the SOS Program, is that right? Can you tell us a little bit about that? SOS stands for Surviving Onward Sessions, and it is for families and friends that have lost someone due to homicide. We meet the first Tuesday of every month at the Dunbar Community Center. We start with some food, a little fellowship, and then typically we have a speaker every week in which we bring in from all different community agencies, such as One Lexington. We have a prosecutor come from the Commonwealth Attorney's Office. We bring in our Robbery Homicide Unit, Bluegrass Care Navigators, and many more, and also some of our grassroots type of services, such as SWAG, which is Tonya Lindsey, who works with homicide families as well after losing her son. And it's just a way for families to come together and learn a little bit more about what our community has to offer, and then find support with each other. Now, I know you had mentioned that these are, I guess, victims of homicide deaths. What about overdose deaths? Now we pretty much, you know, work up every case as much as we can. And one of the new areas that we are working with is overdoses, in which the person does not survive. And we will reach out to the family and just offer our condolences and let them know of any support, you know, that our community has, and offer those services to them. Awesome. So, Ms. Contreras, can you tell us about your background? Yes. Like you said, my name is Marisol Contreras. I came to the department in 2022. That was the goal of the department, when they opened a position for bilingual advocates. You know, it's a matter of trying to help the community, to make them feel safer, and to make them feel comfortable coming through with reports. When I talk to the victims, I always like to explain the process, or what's going to be happening next. You know, I let them know if another person is going to be trying to reach out, what their role is, and why they're reaching out. Sometimes, you know, the barrier of the language makes a big difference and impact. It can be intimidating for the person. So that's the reason why we try to provide the services in their language. So both reporting and also following up, that's very important to have that, absolutely. So when we were talking to Leticia and Cornetto, we were talking about, you know, the resources. So I know being on patrol, we're familiar with some resources, Greenhouse 17 and the NEST. Can you all tell us a little bit more about that? Well, when it comes, yeah, I'll give a little bit from when it comes, again, for the Hispanic community. We try to network with those agencies. Some of those agencies have also made efforts to have a bilingual person. So by different workshops and meetings that we attend with those agencies, we try to network. So let's say that I have a Hispanic person that only speaks Spanish, you know, I'll let them know. We have these resources that are provided through a different agency, but you can reach out to this person. She also speaks Spanish. You talk to them, and they should be able to help you with this, this. And if you have to reach out to another agency, this is what their services are, so that they have clarification on those resources. Ms. Contreras, is there a message in Spanish that you would like to say? Sure, yes. Everybody here at the police department appreciates you as well. So thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Thanks. So Bajie, it was really nice talking to the Victims Advocacy Program. I did not know that there was that many resources for the victims and their families. So what are we going to be talking about next month? All right. Episode 3 of Season 2. We're going to be talking about something that's kind of near and dear to my heart. It's a program that I actually started 25 years ago and just recently turned it over to some other officers that were part of that program in their youth. It's our Explorer Post 357 for ages 14 to 21, giving them an insight and training into law enforcement. So I'm excited about that and going back a little bit and talking with some of the officers now that were part of that program when they were as young as 14 years old. So that's coming up next month. So join us next episode on Yearlex PD. Oh, Elizabeth, I'm sure missing you. Oh, Elizabeth. Even now, when there's someone else who cares, when there's someone home who's waiting just for me, even now I think about you as I'm climbing up the stairs. And I wonder what to do so she won't see that even now, when I know it wasn't right, and I found a better life than what we had, even now I wake up crying in the middle of the night, and I can't believe it still could hurt so bad. Even now, when I have come so far, I wonder where you are. I wonder why it's still so hard without you. Even now, when I come shining through, I swear I think of you and how I wish you knew, even now. Even now, when I never hear your name, and the world has changed so much since you've been gone, even now I still remember, and the feeling's still the same, and this pain inside of me goes on and on, even now. Even now, when I have come so far, I wonder where you are. I wonder why it's still so hard without you. Even now, when I come shining through, I swear I think of you and how I wish you knew, somehow, even now. Well, it was nearly summer, we sat on your roof. Yeah, we smoked cigarettes and we stayed at the moon. And I showed you stars you never could see. Baby, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me. Baby, time and nothing, anything seemed real. Yeah, you could kiss like fire when you made me feel. Like every word you said was meant to be. No, it couldn't have been that easy to forget about me. Baby, even the losers get lucky sometimes. Even the losers keep a little bit of pride. Yeah, they get lucky sometimes. Took our spark on the overpass. 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They all laugh when they see me come But you don't laugh, you just go on running Everybody loves a clown, so why can't you? A clown has feelings too I joke around at a party when you are there If you don't laugh, you don't look, you just don't care If you wonder why this clown is crying Look a little closer inside, I'm dying It's not easy to be in love, you see When you're a clown like me I don't know how to say that I love you But you would smile and say, tell a joke or two Yes, I'm a clown but I don't want to be Why can't you see the other side of me? Yes, I'll be the guy who plays the part Of a clown with a broken heart Dreaming of your love and not knowing where to start Dreaming of your love and not knowing where to start Dreaming of your love and not knowing where to start Dreaming of your love and not knowing where to start Dreaming of your love and not knowing where to start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Good afternoon, I'm Councilmember Amy Beasley, the 8th District City Councilmember and I'm here with Chief Scott Colvin of the Community Corrections Department and we're just going to talk a few minutes about what our Community Corrections Department does. So Chief, there's been lots of debate at the state and national level about jails being asked to deliver more mental health services to the inmates in their custody and some describe it as a national crisis. What does the mental health treatment look like for our community corrections and what does the future hold in this area for the division? Well, thank you for the question and thank you so much for the opportunity to be with you this afternoon, Councilmember Beasley. Mental health has been on the forefront of the discussion for a number of years now.