 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. As the opioid epidemic continues to grow, the Strategic Initiative for Transformational Employment is working across Kentucky to aid those entering the workforce in recovery or after incarceration. EKSEP is a workforce development office that covers the 23 counties in eastern Kentucky. We provide workforce for those counties and we run a program called SITE. It's Strategic Initiative for Transformational Employment in the Kentucky ERN. And we have job developers not only in the EKSEP region but throughout the state in each workforce region that we help participants that are in recovery and wanting to go back to work or wanting to get job training and we connect them with resources in their area that can help them achieve those goals. SITE provides resources such as career planning, applying for colleges, getting a job and obtaining proper documentation. When participants are coming out of reentry and recovery, some do not have family, they do not have friends, they don't have the support system or recovery capital as you would say to help them along the way and without programs like SITE to break down those barriers, to kind of pave the way for them to be their support system. I think the recidivism would be higher if it wasn't for programs like SITE. Over the years they have just had so many barriers and that's the reason they go back to using drugs or alcohol or go back to prison because it's easier in there than it is in the real world. You know, just trying to get from point A to point B, they don't know where to go. But we come a long way and that's what our job developers do. We assist them, we're their guide. We help them. For more information go to ekcep.org. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.