Now, Senator McConnell also attended the opening of a new facility in Boyd County on Tuesday.

Pathways Journey House is transitional housing aimed at supporting women with substance use disorders who have children and are going through treatment to conquer their addictions and trying to regain custody of their children.

We are a transitional living IOP or intensive outpatient program, so we go through intensive outpatient parenting in bloom Anger management.

We offer various different peer services, medication management and primary care providers.

We had two facilities prior to this.

We had an eight bed facility in green up and a six bed facility in Carter County.

And we we stayed four.

So being able to open up a 25 bed facility allows women coming out of jail, allows women leaving the hospital with the CPS.

It provides a lot of safety and security and the chance for all of our consumers and all of wake County to get to understand and experience recovery long term.

I've struggled with addiction for about 20 years.

I've been in our programs.

But like I said, this one is different.

I've been here for three months and my life has changed dramatically.

My parents were here and I went from not having a relationship with them to having a wonderful relationship with them.

I talk to them daily.

They're very supportive.

They're here constantly.

And, you know, they come visit me and all that.

And my kids, I have a relationship with them today.

I'm trying to regain custody back of my younger two.

So a lot of things have changed in my life since I've been in this program.

Some of our consumers aren't able to have kids on their own.

They have to have supervision with the CPS.

So being able to bring your kid allows you to keep your kid in treatment with you while also providing you the tools necessary to sustain recovery.

I think know it speaks volumes to places like this and the widespread problem with addiction today.

You know, we need places like this for us to recover.

If we don't have them, then I mean, all we're going to see is more overdoses.

Addictions are very complex.

It's not just, oh, I decided to go get high and now this is where my life is.

It's a very complex disorder and it's something that is 100% treatable.

I see it every single day.

I've seen it in the four years that I've done this type of work.

And it's a beautiful thing.

They get to see the light click on, and many of our staff are in recovery themselves.

So we see long term recovery every single day in our peer support specialists that are absolutely life altering or the first face you see when you walk through the door.

They're the ones that are really the hope tellers and recovery is it's unique.

Everybody has their own path, but it's a 100% doable thing.

It's just work.

Pathways currently has services in Boyd Carter Greenup, Lawrence Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan and Rowland Counties.