FORT SMITH, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Sebastian County Overall health Court docket introduces a new way to support persons struggling with mental overall health.

The health and fitness court docket hosted a determination ceremony for recently developed “court challenge coins”. The coins ended up made by College of Arkansas-Fort Smith Associate Artwork Professor Peter Cullum.

The challenge cash function likewise to chips earned during plans like Alcoholics Nameless. Individuals get the job done via a procedure and accomplish certain goals acquiring a coin when they strike certain milestones.

Cullum says this is a tremendous move in aiding persons support by themselves.

“People require to have a decision and they have to have to have the ability to empower them selves to make by themselves superior. And this presents them that prospect,” Cullum mentioned.