Dream dot or coasted its sixth event of the year at the Healing Place, a women's recovery center in Louisville.

There that Public health is public safety coalition and had conversations with community activists and those impacted about substance use, recovery, harm reduction and mass incarceration.

This is the sixth event we've done this year.

We did five last year.

We've done six this year.

So what these events do, we bring together different folks to really get perspectives.

We usually have like the business community, the faith community, harm reduction specialists, addiction specialists, folks from mental health field community members, elected officials, anyone that we can get out to really join these discussions.

And what we are discussing is, you know, how how we can get folks the help they need instead of incarceration, especially folks who suffer from substance use disorder, because we know incarceration isn't working when it comes to substance use disorder.

All we're doing there is creating more trauma centers to work every month.

I wanted ladies that were in recovery.

Since we're here at the women's healing place.

I really want to emphasize that point to the ladies that are in this program that, you know, recovery leads to amazing things.

And all five of those ladies were in recovery are in recovery, and they're all doing amazing work across the state.

So I really wanted to let those ladies see what recovery really is.

And those ladies are living proof of what recovery really is.

A shows our clients here that there are more resources out there than just a healing place.

The healing place is a great foundation, but it's not where everybody can get sober.

Like there is a huge community here, so many different organizations coming together.

It's beautiful.

I know when I was out there, I thought I was the only one.

Nobody understood what pain I was dealing with.

And when I got here, I realized that there are so many just like me, struggling, broken.

This is an issue that affects all of Kentucky.

It's not a rural and urban issue.

It's not a black or white issue, and it's not a Republican or Democratic issue.

It's a 120 county, Kentucky issue.

And we have to make sure that we focus across the state and not just in one area or the other.

I watch these girls come in lost, broken, and to give them hope and allow others organizations to come in, to give them resources just means the world.

The coalition focuses on five key areas alternative to incarceration, expanding treatment, access, harm reduction, education and equity.