Speaker 1: Is this Bailey? Hi, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: I am doing great, Bailey? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm wonderful excited to be chatting with you guys this morning.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
Speaker 3: I wanted to get Bailey on. Bailey is going to
Speaker 3: I want to get into there's a very cool event
Speaker 3: that is coming up at the Branch Museum and that's
Speaker 3: a week from this coming Friday. Correct, yep, exactly, all right,
Speaker 3: So give me the give me the headline of it,
Speaker 3: and then we'll get into it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I work for Cherriff Lennard, who I actually
Speaker 2: think you've had on the show before. He's the one
Speaker 2: that did the firewalks they.
Speaker 3: Walked across the calls. I thought it was a scam,
Speaker 3: but yes, he's cool.
Speaker 1: I liked him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He let's just do a lot of really cool creative
Speaker 2: things and so we eat them. Working with the So,
Speaker 2: I run a program in a jail called HARP where
Speaker 2: we help innates with addiction essentially heal and recover. And
Speaker 2: one of the things that we do is we bring
Speaker 2: nature into them. You know, nature's really healing, and believe
Speaker 2: it or not, there's not a lot of that in jail.
Speaker 2: So we've worked with these incredible artists in horticulturists and
Speaker 2: therapists essentially to bring nature in and photograph it. And
Speaker 2: so the exhibit on Friday the Branch is going to
Speaker 2: be showing all of our program participants, the plural design
Speaker 2: that they've created, and all of their hard work. So
Speaker 2: we're super excited about it, right.
Speaker 3: So it's called the Floral Therapy Program for Chesterfield County Jail.
Speaker 3: It'll be showing at the Branch Museum July eleventh, And
Speaker 3: like you said, it is the Helping Addicts Recover Progressive
Speaker 3: or Progressively program, or as it's known as HARP.
Speaker 1: Is this the well?
Speaker 3: Two things Number one, if I'm not mistaken, isn't this
Speaker 3: the program that Jelly Rolls swung by not too long ago?
Speaker 2: This is the program that Jelly Rolls swung by. It's
Speaker 2: the one too, where our guys actually performed on stage
Speaker 2: with him in Charlottesville.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Nice. How did you end up running the program?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Gosh, me, I got really really lucky. I'm from a
Speaker 2: law enforcement family and was told grown up that the
Speaker 2: people behind bars were the bad guys. You know, Dad's
Speaker 2: out catching bad guys, and actually ended up going to
Speaker 2: a jail and meeting a bunch of people and just
Speaker 2: fell in love with working with this population. You know,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who've had a lot
Speaker 2: of hard things happen in life, and they're an incredibly
Speaker 2: motivated group of people to do something different. And HARP
Speaker 2: has get definitely been a career that it's taken me
Speaker 2: places I would have never expected, and I love every
Speaker 2: day of it.
Speaker 1: Would you say taking you places like specifically? Does anything
Speaker 1: come to mind?
Speaker 2: I mean, We've just gotten to do so many cool things.
Speaker 2: We've filmed a documentary. I've gotten to meet with politicians
Speaker 2: that I never thought I would meet with Jelly World
Speaker 2: Concort backstage. You know, there's a lot of cool stuff,
Speaker 2: but it's also in the small things too, you know,
Speaker 2: like my Facebook feed every holiday is actually filled with
Speaker 2: people who were once in jail who are now moms
Speaker 2: and dads and getting to be with their families on
Speaker 2: the holidays. So this some of the big cool things,
Speaker 2: but it's also in just getting to see people's lives
Speaker 2: change every day, and that's really like take away all
Speaker 2: the cool stuff. That's the part that matters to most
Speaker 2: to all of us.
Speaker 3: Right, So it is I mean, the passion is helping
Speaker 3: those that are incarcerated so that there is a successful
Speaker 3: transition once they get out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. The goal is to help them to not
Speaker 2: come back to jail, right, because that's what you know,
Speaker 2: everybody wants is for them to be healthy, happy, in
Speaker 2: some form of recovery, able to you know, be taxpayers
Speaker 2: and can reach to society. And you know, that's a
Speaker 2: win win for everybody. When people aren't too many crimes again,
Speaker 2: you know, they're not doing those things and they're actually
Speaker 2: able to be the people that they're meant to be.
Speaker 3: Hey, Bailey, can I ask you this. I feel like
Speaker 3: the and I don't consider us part of the media,
Speaker 3: but when you when you look at the media, you
Speaker 3: do hear a ton about you. You hear two words
Speaker 3: a lot, repeat offender, repeat offender, repeat offender. Would we
Speaker 3: be shocked at the number of people incarcerated that fall
Speaker 3: into programs like you've established, that are looking for a
Speaker 3: very very successful transition once they get out.
Speaker 2: Oh, you'd be stunned. U. Nobody wants to be an addiction.
Speaker 2: Nobody has chosen to struggle with substance use disorder, and today,
Speaker 2: for the most part, in my experience, and I've been
Speaker 2: doing this ten years now, it's people who want to
Speaker 2: get well but may or may not have all the tools,
Speaker 2: resources and support to do so. And so that's what
Speaker 2: hard books to do is to help people. We'll find
Speaker 2: the tools, find the resources, establish a support network so
Speaker 2: that they're able to get the helps that they needed
Speaker 2: so that they can stop coming back to jail. And
Speaker 2: it doesn't work for everybody. You know, addiction is relapsing,
Speaker 2: it happens. But I mean, our recidivism rate is about
Speaker 2: twenty three percent compared to a national a national average
Speaker 2: you know, in somewhere in the seventies.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, so the event at the at the museum, it'll
Speaker 3: run July eleventh to July nineteenth. I know, one hundred
Speaker 3: percent of the proceeds get donated to the HARP Recovery Program.
Speaker 3: What is the easiest way for people to be able
Speaker 3: to visit and explore the exhibit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just so on Friday night, come see us.
Speaker 2: We will be there from six to nine pm, but
Speaker 2: the exhibit will run the whole time that we're there
Speaker 2: until the nineteenth. They're taking donations either through Venmo through
Speaker 2: whatever you want to do. And it's actually for our
Speaker 2: nonprofit which just directly supports people who are returning home
Speaker 2: from incarceration, things like job skill programming, forklift certification, certificate classes,
Speaker 2: bed fees, all those things that help people to successfully
Speaker 2: return home. So we appreciate all the support. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for everything.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and do me a favor keep us in mind
Speaker 3: in the future, Like I know that this is a
Speaker 3: big event that's coming up and it starts next Friday,
Speaker 3: but just down the road. Yeah, keep us updated on
Speaker 3: what other events. I love the program. I think it's great.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we'll do. Thank you so much. Got to see
Speaker 2: you guys are Fridays.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Bailey. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. So again, it's July eleventh.
Speaker 3: Through nineteenth, Branch Museum, the Floral Therapy Program from Chesterfield
Speaker 3: County Jail. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be
Speaker 3: donated to the HARP Recovery program.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah, that's very cool. So I like that.
Speaker 2: I was looking at some of the sneak previews of
Speaker 2: the artwork and the moments they capture that are going
Speaker 2: to be on display.
Speaker 1: It's very cool. It's really special. Yeah, no, it's really nice.
Speaker 1: And I like that as a program.
Speaker 3: Do you remember and I remember like when the when
Speaker 3: there was the news about Jelly Roll going to visit
Speaker 3: the number of people that we talked to that had
Speaker 3: gone through that program that called in.
Speaker 1: I thought it was great.