Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)Major Program
Total Hours
Contributed.
Contacts
with Local Stakeholders.
Hours
of Multistate Efforts.
Total Number
of Volunteers Engaged.
Program Indicators
Number of individuals who assessed the cost savings and/or benefits associated with newly adopted practices |
893 |
Number of individuals self-reporting reduced costs associated with newly adopted practices |
512 |
Number of people engaged in community strategies to improve the built and natural environment to increase active and healthy lifestyles |
11108 |
Number of individuals who implemented one or more practices to improve: disaster preparedness, pest management, going green, etc. |
1947 |
Number of individuals who identified one or more practices to improve disaster preparedness, pest management, going green, etc. |
3663 |
Number of individuals reporting improved knowledge, opinions, skills, and/or aspirations in understanding: disaster preparedness, pest management, going green, energy conservation, solid waste management, water conservation, home safety or built environment |
10058 |
Stories
Cell Phone Germs
In 2020 the Edmonson County School Systems had already closed multiple days for illness. The Family Resource Center reached out to the Edmonson County Family and Consumer Sciences Agents to teach a lesson about the importance of hand washing.The FCS agent worked with 200 students in the middle and high school in February and March of 2020. An initial lesson was on the importance of proper hand washing utilizing glow germ to show students spots they missed when they washed their hands. After cove...
Reports
Stories Behind the Numbers
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