 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 North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Brushy Fork Leadership Institute at Berea College is seeking applications from Floyd, Bell, Clay, and Perry counties for the People Ready Communities Leadership Program to explore community development, principals, personal leadership skills, and design and carry out a six-month project to build towards being People Ready. The People Ready Communities Program builds on that history of doing leadership development in the region and the idea behind the People Ready Communities Program is that in order to be ready to receive a diverse workforce in our communities, we need to be thinking about our community narrative. So what is out there through media, through national, even national media about rural areas that we can think about, how do we address that if it's a not a good narrative that would attract people to come live here? How do we address that as our communities and then how do we truly create a community that is welcoming to a diverse workforce? The program will bring together a team of 15 people from each county to consider supporting local narratives that the community is ready to receive a diverse workforce. We're looking to try to recruit about 15 people from each of the four communities that we're serving this year and those community teams would work on building their personal leadership skills but then also think about in their communities what is the narrative we want to have? What can we do at the local level to increase a sense of being open and welcoming to a diverse workforce that might be coming in whether it be remote workers or immigrants who are coming to the region or even people who may have gone away to college and then want to come back to the community. Those interested in applying for the People Ready Communities Leadership Program can contact Jacqueline Corum at corumj at berea.edu or call 859-985-3858. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Dean.