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It Starts With Us
Healthy Lifestyles
Making Healthy LIfestyles Choices
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Ackerman, Jeff Casada
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Weight the Reality Series
Clay County, a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families make choices to improve health and wellbeing, incorporate nutritious food into their diet, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease (including diabetes, heart disease stroke, cancer)prevention. 10% of our population is 18-24 years old, 57% is 25-64 years of age and 12% of is over 65 years of age. Our medium household income is $23,445. According to 2014 statistics 43% of our county is obese with 18% of our adults being diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults don’t meet the standard activity level. Lifestyle choices impact the quality and years of life.
-Increase the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating. Increase the management of chronic disease diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Increase the management of lifestyles factures impacting overweight adults and children.
-Families practice healthy food choices to strengthen the families’ ability to build healthy eating plans.
-Families practice physical activity in homes & communities.
-Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitudes related to making healthy lifestyle choices and adult weight management and chronic disease.
-Families increase knowledge skills attitudes related to healthy foods, learn how to prepare and preserve healthy foods.
Long-Term Outcome: Increase the consumption of healthy foods and increase physical activity.
Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity, number that report eating more healthy foods, leading to improvement of quality of life.
Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Intermediate Outcome: Families practice healthy food choices to build healthy eating plans. Family practice physical activity.
Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity; number that report eating more healthy foods leading to improvement of quality of life.
Method: word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Initial Outcome: Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitude related to healthy life skill choices and weight management.
Indicator: Number that gained knowledge about eating healthy food. Number that reported understanding the benefits of spending time together in physical activity.
Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluations.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Diabetes Support Group
Content or Curriculum: Diabetic Shoes
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: April 2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Plate It Up Cooking School
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent,
Date: 3 times a yearAudience: Adults & Children
Project or Activity: Just Get Moving
Content or Curriculum: Games & Activity
Inputs: Memorial Hospital, KECOC, Healthy Clay, Daniel Boone,4-H/FCS Agents
Date: Spring 2019
Audience : Women
Project or Activity: Strong Women, Healthy Women
Content or Curriculum: Health
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent/Agencies
Date: March 2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Holiday Cooking School
Content or Curriculum: Recipes
Inputs: Wilderness Trail Area Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: November 2018
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Nuts in the Diet
Content or Curriculum: Flavorful Nuts
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: WomenProject or Activity: Creole/Mexican Cooking/Stir Fry
Content or Curriculum: FCS publications
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: February 2019
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Internet Safety
Content or Curriculum: Speaker
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Speaker
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Mindfulness
Content or Curriculum: Mindfulness
Inputs: Agent, Curriculum
Date: Winter 2018-2019
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Healthy Walking Healthy Life
Content or Curriculum: Walking Program
Inputs: Family & Consumer Sciences Agent
Date: Spring 2019Audience: Middle School 7th
Project: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences
Inputs: All Agents, Community
Date: Fall October/November 2018
Audience: WTA Homemakers
Project: Leader’s Training
Content or Curriculum: Eating Healthy for Less
Inputs: Curriculum, FCS Agent
Date: 2018
Audience: FamiliesProject: Preserving Food
Content: UK publications
Inputs Agents
Date: 2018-19
Audience: Youth
Activity: Chef’s in Training
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: Youth
Activity: Health Rocks
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2018-2019 School year
Audience: Youth
Activity: Professor Popcorn
Content or Curriculum: FCS/4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2018-2019 School year
Audience: Families
Activity: Recipe of the Month
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes/Calendar Cooking
Input: Plate It Up Recipes, Grocery Stores, FCS Agent
Date: All year
Audience: Children
Activity: Whats in the Dr. Bag
Content or Curriculum: Whats in the Dr. Bag
Input: FCS Agent
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: Youth
Activity: Middle School Enrichment
Content or Curriculum: Team Building With Youth
Input: 4-H Agent, Teachers
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: Youth
Activity: Manners for Real World
Content or curriculum: Manners for Real World
Input: 4-H agent, teachers
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: Youth
Activity: Hygiene 101
Content or curriculum: Staying Healthy – National 4-H Curriculum
Input: 4-H agent, teachers
Date: 2018-2019
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Due to the low health rating for Clay County families and the high percentage of our adults (33% of our adults don’t meet standard activity) 43% are considered overweight and 18% of our adults with diabetes; the Family & Consumer Science Agent presented Plate It Up sessions using Plate It Up recipes and Preserving Program using USDA recipes. Eighty attendees came to four sessions. These sessions were advertised on Facebook, web page, newspaper, radio and newsletter. T
Author: Jeffrey Casada
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Truth and Consequences - Clay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, opioids and other various illegal and prescription drugs. Nineteen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall we had over 200 march through town. Many of our arrests for DUI are drug related rather than alcohol related. There is a need for continued substance abuse prevention and intervention in Clay County. You only have to read the
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Truth and Consequences - Clay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, opioids and other various illegal and prescription drugs. Clay County is 5th out of 220 counties in opioid use or potential use of the substance. Nineteen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall. We had over 200 marched through town. Many of our arrests for DUI are drug related rather than alcohol related. There is a need for continued substan
Author: Alissa Ackerman
Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Clay County, along with many other counties, has an ongoing challenge with the use of drugs such as methamphetamine, oxycodone, heroin and other various prescription drugs. Many of the arrests in Clay County are drug related, which calls for a need for intervention and continued substance abuse prevention programs. Drug prevention was also a reoccurring response when conducting the community needs assessment.FCS, 4-H and Agriculture Agents partnered with Clay County Middle School, 14 local organ
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Wilderness Trail Area Homemakers are rural counties in Eastern KY, families make choices to improve health and wellbeing and incorporate economical and nutritious food into their diet reducing chronic disease. The Family and Consumer Science Agent taught Economical Entrees as an Area wide Leader’s Training in six counties with 30 attendees. The immediate evaluation after the program showed100% understood the role of the entrée in My Plate and the Dietary Guidelines100% could i
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families are encouraged to make choices to improve health and well-being, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease prevention. According to 2014 statistics 43% of Clay County is obese with 18% of the adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults do not meet the standard activity level. Learning and practicing healthy choices at a young age can impact the quality and years of life. The Family
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families are encouraged to make choices to improve health and well-being, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease prevention. According to 2014 statistics 43% of Clay County is obese with 18% of the adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults do not meet the standard activity level. Learning and practicing healthy choices at a young age can impact the quality and years of life. The Family and Consumer
