 You need a financial advisor with the freedom to focus on your specific needs. Whatever your goals, Reeve Potter can create a game plan tailored to you. Call Reeve at 432-0777 at Pikeville, Kentucky to learn more. March is National Social Work Month, a month dedicated to one of the largest group of mental health service providers in the United States. We spoke to Kailin Richmond with Judy's Place for Kids about the impact social workers have on the community. Social Work Month is definitely important for us. Our agency is filled with people from social work backgrounds, therapists, social workers in the interview sense, in the advocate sense. So obviously, pretty much our entire office is made up of people that are geared towards that kind of work. And ours is especially geared towards kids that we do have advocacy services for adults, caregivers, non-offending family members, that kind of thing. But, you know, it's just important for us to take moments to recognize the hard work that, you know, the different social workers in our office, you know, the hard work that they do. Over 3.6 million referrals are made to child protection agencies each year. Social workers have helped decrease the number of juvenile arrests by 68% since 1996. Working in an advocacy center is definitely difficult because, you know, every day you're face-to-face with pretty difficult and challenging stories, circumstances. You have to obviously interact with people that have had, you know, really difficult things happen to them. And so it takes a lot out of you and so it's important to have months like this one where we can just focus on, you know, bringing recognition to what they do and, you know, just honoring how great of people they are. Judy's Place for Kids works with several outside service providers, including Legal Aid, Local Law Enforcement, Child Protective Services, and hosts medical providers, child advocates, and much more in-house. I think as we're moving through Social Work Month right now, next month we'll be moving towards Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. And I think all of the social workers here would just encourage people to be supportive as we move through this month and even into next month. If you see opportunities to get engaged with abuse centers in whatever town you're in, whatever area you're in, take advantage of those. If you see, you know, fundraiser nights, we have a 5K on April 15th here in Pikeville. You know, those are great opportunities to just get out and support advocacy centers and support kids that have been abused, so if you see opportunities like that, I'd encourage people to do whatever they can to be a part of it. For more information, go to Judy's Place for Kids on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.