Our Place Drug & Alcohol Education Services, Inc.

09/05/2025

No matter where you are on your recovery journey, we are proud of you!
For resources visit samhsa.gov/recoverme

09/04/2025

08/29/2025

Today we're featuring Rhonda Boyd Alstott
Rhonda is our Drug Free Communities Coordinator!

--How long have you been working at Our Place?
4 years

--What is the reason you got into this field?
To make a positive impact at the community and individual level.

--What do you like about your job?
I do more community level change which is a lot different than individual interventions, but it allows me to reach more people with the prevention message. Working on policy change is challenging, but very rewarding.

--If you could list one thing you would like the general public to know about you, prevention, or Our Place, what would it be?

Substance Use is a community problem. It impacts families. It would be amazing if we took Prevention as serious as we do interventions and treatment.

--What is your favorite quote?
"Love God, Love Others, Do No Harm"-John Wesley's 3 Simple Rules to live by

--What is one fun fact about you?
I enjoy being outside-hiking, birdwatching, boating etc.

08/25/2025

Great to catch with our community partners MeriBeth Adams-Wolf from Our Place Drug & Alcohol Education Services, Inc. and Councilmember Stefanie Griffith at last week’s New Albany City Council meeting!

08/22/2025

Today the employee we are featuring is Amanda Aich.
Amanda is a Footprints for Life Instructor!

How long have you been working at Our Place?

--2 years

What is the reason you got into this field?

--I started working in this field in 2020. My journey began in treatment. My life as a recovering addict has been inspirational to my passion for teaching our students about the negative effects of addiction.

What do you like about your job?

--I love working with the clients. In my unique position I have had an opportunity to work with children, adolescents, and adults. Every story I hear and lesson I get to participate in continues to fuel my hope and passion for our clients and my job.

If you could list one thing you would like the general public to know about you, prevention, or Our Place, what would it be?

--Our Place has given me the opportunity to work in treatment as well as prevention. This unique place continues to broaden my perspective of possibility in the face of a seemingly hopeless epidemic. Our Place offers many different evidence-based programs for the community to learn, grow, and overcome the horrors of addiction.

What is your favorite quote?

--Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

What is one fun fact about you?

--I love to sing!

08/21/2025

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08/08/2025

Our Place loves participating in this very important event in our community!

08/08/2025

Our Place is happy to be a partner in this very important initiative in helping youth in our community!

Here are some of the initiative's major community partners:

Clark & Floyd System of Care
Our Place
Floyd County Health Department
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana
Southern Indiana Works
Open Door Youth Services
Floyd County CASA
LifeSpring

The All-In Attendance Coalition in Floyd County is the first initiative of its kind in the area.

07/30/2025

Our Place staff were able to participate in the Floyds K***s Elementary Open House earlier this week. We love getting to table at community events!

07/24/2025

Our next staff member to be featured is Cristine Powell.
Cristine teaches our Footprints For Life program in the 2nd grade as well as our Lifeskills program in the 4th grade!

How long have you been working at Our Place?
--Three years

What is the reason you got into this field?
--I am passionate about children and investing in them so they can become healthy and resilient adults. I also enjoy teaching in classrooms with elementary aged students in 2nd and 4th grades.

What do you like about your job?
--I love working in this field teaching important social emotional learning skills that support resiliency that leads to healthy decision making. Our youth, even our very young ones, are bombarded with so much coming at them. The lessons I teach are very powerful to help young students gain important skills that support healthy decision making. I also love that I teach two universal programs and touch so many lives. I taught over 1600 students this past school year. Hopefully, many of them will remember the information that they were taught when younger and when faced with concerning decisions about using drugs/alcohol as they get older will choose healthy.

If you could list one thing you would like the general public to know about you, prevention, or Our Place, what would it be?
--At Our Place we work to support resiliency skills in children/youth/adults to build emotional regulation, problems solving, positive thinking, social support, self awareness, a growth mindset, and flexibility that promotes healthy decisions. This is our passion and why we do what we do.

What is your favorite quote?
--"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." (Benjamin Franklin) It is always easier, cheaper, can be more fun, and is more powerful to be proactive rather than reactive treating a problem after it has happened.

What is one fun fact about you?
--I have worked with children all of my life in many different settings. I enjoy them and they are worthy of our time and investment. I believe children are our future and if we don't invest in them we won't have a future.

07/21/2025

Our Place Staff were able to participate in the Backpack Health Fair at Howard Chapel Missionary Baptist Church over the weekend. This is such an amazing event for the community, and we were so glad to be a part of it again this year!