Rockbridge Area Community Services reports roughly 1,072 Rockbridge clients served in FY25 and highlights prevention, IOP and jail services

Rockbridge Area Community Services (RACS) presented its annual update to the Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 27, reporting that the agency served about 1,820 unique clients across its service area in fiscal 2025, including roughly 1,072 Rockbridge County residents.

Kim Shaw, executive director of Rockbridge Area Community Services, said prevention programming remains a major focus and described a recent Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth grant that allowed the agency to place a vaping prevention curriculum, Catch My Breath, into Rockbridge County schools. "We were doing a too good for drugs curriculum in the past, and we were getting requests frequently from the schools to have something specific to vaping," the agency said.

The agency also described treatment expansions: the recent launch of a substance‑use intensive outpatient program (IOP) that meets at least nine hours per week (the program has two groups and averages 12–15 participants as enrollment fluctuates), therapeutic day treatment and school‑based interventions in most county schools, and renewed peer‑support services for veterans. RACS staff said they provide prevention forums and coalitions (Live Healthy Rockbridge Kids and a community prevention coalition) that engage community members; those events drew about 80 participants in the most recent annual forum.

RACS noted partnerships with the regional jail to provide weekly men—s and women—s groups and said Rain, the agency facility dog, participates across service areas to support clients. RACS provided outreach materials and a resources list for county offices.

Provenance: Presentation begins at 01:07:14 in the transcript and continues through remarks that end at 01:16:xx. The agency provided client counts and program details during those blocks.