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Clay County CES

Title:
Healthy Lifestyles
MAP:
Making Healthy LIfestyles Choices
Agents Involved:
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Ackerman, Jeff Casada
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Weight the Reality Series
Situation:

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.

Long-Term Outcomes:

-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.

Intermediate Outcomes:

-Families practice healthy food choices to strengthen the families’ ability to build healthy eating plans.


-Families practice physical activity in homes & communities.

Initial Outcomes:

-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.


Evaluation:

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


Learning Opportunities:

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 year

Audience: 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:  Women

Project 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 2019

Audience: 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: Families

Project: 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




Success Stories

Plate It Up

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

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Truth and Consequences

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

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Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours

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

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Truth and Consequences

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

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Economical Entrees

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

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Walking for Life

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

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Strong Women Healthy Women

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

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