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Jackson County fiscal court backs plan to pursue opioid-abatement funding for reentry kitchen program
Summary
Project Restart requested court approval to pursue state approval and use opioid abatement funds to reopen a county-owned regional kitchen as a second-chance employment and training site for people with substance use disorders; the court heard details on screening, partner roles and grant steps.
Judge opened a presentation to the Jackson County Fiscal Court on Project Restart, a reentry program that provides employment referrals, housing help and wraparound services for people leaving jail. Ruth Forsyth Moore and resource coordinator Sheila Parrott described plans to use the county'owned regional food center (the idle commercial kitchen next to the farmers market) for supervised, second-chance employment and training.
Ruth Forsyth Moore said Project Restart began in 2022 through the Jackson County Community Foundation and expanded in 2024 to add a resource coordinator and new nonprofit and church…
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