Juvenile Center Awarded Grant - April 18th, 2011
The Arkansas Department of Health has awarded the Garland County Juvenile Detention Center a $22,880 grant to provide life skills training to detention center inmates. Belinda Cosgrove, the detention center administrator, announced the grant award at the center. She said half of the grant would be spent on Botvin LifeSkills Training, a 52-week evidence-based curriculum that also focuses on teaching about the dangers of tobacco use. Cosgrove was accompanied at the announcement by Toney Bailey and Antionne Dewayne Alcorn, both health program specialists with the ADH Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program.
From left: Kea Hampton, clinical social worker, Garland County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Belinda Cosgrove, Antionne Alcorn and Toney Bailey, health program specialists with the Arkansas Department of Health, and Sheriff Larry Sanders.
