 Apple Red Legal Aid, a non-profit law firm, is working to address legal needs in eastern Kentucky and they are asking for the community's input. Following a survey of their 37 service counties, Apple Red is hosting two focus groups on March 6th to determine where they can best assist in the area. Every few years we take sort of the pulse of the community to try to determine what the legal needs are for the area and during the past few months we've had a number of community partners and low-income people from all walks of life to fill out these surveys and that was the first part of our needs assessment but now we're about to take it just a little bit deeper and say we want to have some focus groups that are targeted to some specific questions that we have about some of the survey questions that we have to get a little deeper understanding. 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. The groups will be held via Zoom at 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 6th and will last around 45 minutes. I think with the focus groups what we want to do is like I said we want to take a deeper dive but it's also important to hear people's lived experiences firsthand and you just can't get that from a survey. And so we'll have these sessions we're going to be talking about different questions such as what kind of problems or issues do our focus group participants see that they are either having or others in their community are having that may be impacting their quality of life. We have other things that questions that we want to delve into like what are some other resources in the community that address issues that may be impacting people and what makes it what makes it hard for people to access those services if there's already a resource that exists including legal aid and then if there's anything that we should be doing differently or others in the community should be different doing differently to address those problems. For more information and to register go to surveymonkey.com backslash r backslash apple red underscore focus group reporting for mountaintop news I'm Brianna Robinson