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<v Speaker 1>Is this Bailey? Hi, Yeah, it is.

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<v Speaker 2>How are you?

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<v Speaker 1>I am doing great, Bailey? How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm wonderful excited to be chatting with you guys this morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, thank you.

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<v Speaker 3>I wanted to get Bailey on. Bailey is going to

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<v Speaker 3>I want to get into there's a very cool event

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<v Speaker 3>that is coming up at the Branch Museum and that's

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<v Speaker 3>a week from this coming Friday. Correct, yep, exactly, all right,

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<v Speaker 3>So give me the give me the headline of it,

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<v Speaker 3>and then we'll get into it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So I work for Cherriff Lennard, who I actually

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<v Speaker 2>think you've had on the show before. He's the one

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<v Speaker 2>that did the firewalks they.

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<v Speaker 3>Walked across the calls. I thought it was a scam,

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<v Speaker 3>but yes, he's cool.

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<v Speaker 1>I liked him. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>He let's just do a lot of really cool creative

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<v Speaker 2>things and so we eat them. Working with the So,

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<v Speaker 2>I run a program in a jail called HARP where

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<v Speaker 2>we help innates with addiction essentially heal and recover. And

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<v Speaker 2>one of the things that we do is we bring

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<v Speaker 2>nature into them. You know, nature's really healing, and believe

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<v Speaker 2>it or not, there's not a lot of that in jail.

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<v Speaker 2>So we've worked with these incredible artists in horticulturists and

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<v Speaker 2>therapists essentially to bring nature in and photograph it. And

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<v Speaker 2>so the exhibit on Friday the Branch is going to

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<v Speaker 2>be showing all of our program participants, the plural design

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<v Speaker 2>that they've created, and all of their hard work. So

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<v Speaker 2>we're super excited about it, right.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's called the Floral Therapy Program for Chesterfield County Jail.

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<v Speaker 3>It'll be showing at the Branch Museum July eleventh, And

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<v Speaker 3>like you said, it is the Helping Addicts Recover Progressive

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<v Speaker 3>or Progressively program, or as it's known as HARP.

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<v Speaker 1>Is this the well?

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<v Speaker 3>Two things Number one, if I'm not mistaken, isn't this

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<v Speaker 3>the program that Jelly Rolls swung by not too long ago?

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<v Speaker 2>This is the program that Jelly Rolls swung by. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the one too, where our guys actually performed on stage

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<v Speaker 2>with him in Charlottesville.

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<v Speaker 1>That's awesome. Nice. How did you end up running the program?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh?

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<v Speaker 2>Gosh, me, I got really really lucky. I'm from a

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<v Speaker 2>law enforcement family and was told grown up that the

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<v Speaker 2>people behind bars were the bad guys. You know, Dad's

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<v Speaker 2>out catching bad guys, and actually ended up going to

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<v Speaker 2>a jail and meeting a bunch of people and just

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<v Speaker 2>fell in love with working with this population. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>there are a lot of people who've had a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of hard things happen in life, and they're an incredibly

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<v Speaker 2>motivated group of people to do something different. And HARP

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<v Speaker 2>has get definitely been a career that it's taken me

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<v Speaker 2>places I would have never expected, and I love every

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<v Speaker 2>day of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Would you say taking you places like specifically? Does anything

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<v Speaker 1>come to mind?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, We've just gotten to do so many cool things.

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<v Speaker 2>We've filmed a documentary. I've gotten to meet with politicians

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<v Speaker 2>that I never thought I would meet with Jelly World

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<v Speaker 2>Concort backstage. You know, there's a lot of cool stuff,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's also in the small things too, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like my Facebook feed every holiday is actually filled with

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<v Speaker 2>people who were once in jail who are now moms

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<v Speaker 2>and dads and getting to be with their families on

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<v Speaker 2>the holidays. So this some of the big cool things,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's also in just getting to see people's lives

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<v Speaker 2>change every day, and that's really like take away all

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<v Speaker 2>the cool stuff. That's the part that matters to most

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<v Speaker 2>to all of us.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, So it is I mean, the passion is helping

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<v Speaker 3>those that are incarcerated so that there is a successful

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<v Speaker 3>transition once they get out.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly. The goal is to help them to not

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<v Speaker 2>come back to jail, right, because that's what you know,

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<v Speaker 2>everybody wants is for them to be healthy, happy, in

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<v Speaker 2>some form of recovery, able to you know, be taxpayers

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<v Speaker 2>and can reach to society. And you know, that's a

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<v Speaker 2>win win for everybody. When people aren't too many crimes again,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, they're not doing those things and they're actually

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<v Speaker 2>able to be the people that they're meant to be.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, Bailey, can I ask you this. I feel like

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<v Speaker 3>the and I don't consider us part of the media,

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<v Speaker 3>but when you when you look at the media, you

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<v Speaker 3>do hear a ton about you. You hear two words

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<v Speaker 3>a lot, repeat offender, repeat offender, repeat offender. Would we

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<v Speaker 3>be shocked at the number of people incarcerated that fall

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<v Speaker 3>into programs like you've established, that are looking for a

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<v Speaker 3>very very successful transition once they get out.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, you'd be stunned. U. Nobody wants to be an addiction.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody has chosen to struggle with substance use disorder, and today,

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<v Speaker 2>for the most part, in my experience, and I've been

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<v Speaker 2>doing this ten years now, it's people who want to

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<v Speaker 2>get well but may or may not have all the tools,

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<v Speaker 2>resources and support to do so. And so that's what

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<v Speaker 2>hard books to do is to help people. We'll find

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<v Speaker 2>the tools, find the resources, establish a support network so

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<v Speaker 2>that they're able to get the helps that they needed

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<v Speaker 2>so that they can stop coming back to jail. And

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't work for everybody. You know, addiction is relapsing,

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<v Speaker 2>it happens. But I mean, our recidivism rate is about

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<v Speaker 2>twenty three percent compared to a national a national average

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<v Speaker 2>you know, in somewhere in the seventies.

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<v Speaker 1>That's awesome, that's great.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, so the event at the at the museum, it'll

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<v Speaker 3>run July eleventh to July nineteenth. I know, one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>percent of the proceeds get donated to the HARP Recovery Program.

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<v Speaker 3>What is the easiest way for people to be able

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<v Speaker 3>to visit and explore the exhibit?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, just so on Friday night, come see us.

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<v Speaker 2>We will be there from six to nine pm, but

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<v Speaker 2>the exhibit will run the whole time that we're there

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<v Speaker 2>until the nineteenth. They're taking donations either through Venmo through

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you want to do. And it's actually for our

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<v Speaker 2>nonprofit which just directly supports people who are returning home

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<v Speaker 2>from incarceration, things like job skill programming, forklift certification, certificate classes,

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<v Speaker 2>bed fees, all those things that help people to successfully

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<v Speaker 2>return home. So we appreciate all the support. Thank you

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<v Speaker 2>so much for everything.

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<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, and do me a favor keep us in mind

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<v Speaker 3>in the future, Like I know that this is a

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<v Speaker 3>big event that's coming up and it starts next Friday,

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<v Speaker 3>but just down the road. Yeah, keep us updated on

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<v Speaker 3>what other events. I love the program. I think it's great.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, we'll do. Thank you so much. Got to see

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<v Speaker 2>you guys are Fridays.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Thank you, Bailey. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am.

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<v Speaker 3>That's awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that. I like that. So again, it's July eleventh.

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<v Speaker 3>Through nineteenth, Branch Museum, the Floral Therapy Program from Chesterfield

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<v Speaker 3>County Jail. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be

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<v Speaker 3>donated to the HARP Recovery program.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cool. Yeah, that's very cool. So I like that.

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<v Speaker 2>I was looking at some of the sneak previews of

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<v Speaker 2>the artwork and the moments they capture that are going

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<v Speaker 2>to be on display.

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<v Speaker 1>It's very cool. It's really special. Yeah, no, it's really nice.

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<v Speaker 1>And I like that as a program.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you remember and I remember like when the when

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<v Speaker 3>there was the news about Jelly Roll going to visit

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<v Speaker 3>the number of people that we talked to that had

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<v Speaker 3>gone through that program that called in.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought it was great.