Youth Fruit & Vegetable AccessMajor Program

3894

Total Hours

Contributed.

54081

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

0

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

1826

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of children grades K-2 who could identify vegetables

11827

Number of children grades K-2 who could identify fruits

12064

Number of children grades 3-5 who report eating vegetables

8462

Number of children grades 3-5 who report eating fruit

9625

Number of children grades 3-5 who report intention to ask their family to buy their favorite fruit or vegetables

7215

Number of children grades 3-5 who report the intent to ask their family to keep fruits in a place where they can reach them

6053

Number of children grades 3-5 who report intention to ask their family to keep cut-up vegetables in a place where they can reach them

5859

Stories

Junior Master Gardener/Learn, Grow, Eat Go: The Campbell County Approach

In Kentucky, at least one out of every three adults (34.2%) and children (37.1%) are overweight or obese, more than one out of every five Kentuckians (16.8%) and Kentucky children (21.9%) experience food insecurities, and one out of every three Kentuckians (29.8%) are physically inactive (SNAP-Ed, 2017). In Campbell County (population 92,488), adult obesity is 32%. There are 12.9% of the county who are food insecure, 13.2% of the population below poverty and 17.8% children living in poverty. Twe...

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Junior Master Gardener/Learn, Grow, Eat Go:  The Campbell County Approach

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