Extension
It Starts With Us
Proactive Health and Wellbeing for all
Making Healthy Lifelong Lifestyle Choices
Johnson
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Faithful Families
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Mastering Food Choices
Kentucky ranks 3rd highest in the US for physical inactivity. Youth are becoming more inactive at an early age. Adolescence is the second most critical time for nutritious eating, after infancy. Pre-natal and infant nutritional needs form life-long habits, including breast-feeding and research linking bottle fed-babies to obesity in adults. Youth need extra calories to fuel growth spurts. Yet, youth eat many meals away from home (with out proper adult supervision) thus, don’t always eat the most nourishing food. It is an ideal time to focus on what can be done to encourage eating habits that support children, adults and senior populations physical growth, maximize bone density, and prevent chronic diseases which are related to proactive decision making and lifelong physical activity to prevent and/or reduce the incidence of obesity, diabetes,heart disease, cancer and as supported by research brain based disorders impacted by lifelong poor nutrition and health practices.
Chronic lifestyle and nutrition related diseases will be significantly reduced among the population. Substance Abuse among youth and young adults will be diminished and the general population will embrace positive changes in the communities.
Individuals of all ages from infancy to the end of life ages shall make changes in reducing their intake of unhealthy foods, include fruits, vegetables and grains, and dairy as the basis of the dietary intake. Adopting good physical activity and avoidance of use of substances where chemicals harm the body.
Educational participants, clientele, Extension Homemakers, pre-school children, children, young adults, and seniors shall learn the recommended dietary and physical activity appropriate for themselves and for their families.
Limited resource clientele shall learn to manage and extend the use of Food Stamps, money, and Food Pantry items to improve the nourishment of the family.
Families shall develop menu's planned for meal preparation at home, suit the menus to the budget, and shall develop food preparation, preservation, and cooking skills they aspire to use.
Initial Outcome: Learn and use the guidelines of the USDA and dietary guidelines and myPlate from Extension curricula
Indicator: Number of participants reached
Method: Pre and Post Program Evaluations either written or verbal, show of hands for limited literacy or non-English speaking populations
Timeline: September 2018 - June 2019
Intermediate Outcome: Changes will be made in the preparation, consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat dairy in family meals.
Indicator: Percentage of participants making changes in food pattern consumption
Method: Post program evaluations, electronic and written or phone follow up evaluations, testimonials from participants of all ages
Timeline: September 2018 - June 2019
Long-term Outcome: Improved health of citizens in the community, reduction of incidence of substance abuse and unhealthy behaviors.
Indicator: Statistical data
Method: Long term testimonials from program participants, community partners, BRFSS data, Kids-Count data and other reliable sources of supporting sites of outcome based changes
Timeline: September 2018 - June 2019
Audience: Youth and Adults
Project or Activity: Simulated Learning Activity
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences: The Choice Is Yours Curriculum
Inputs: CADA, Allen Central High School, Floyd County Schools, Extension Homemakers, Community partners, volunteers, law enforcement, judicial system, attorneys, coroner, jailer, judges, emergency medical personnel, physicians and/or health partners, parents and grand parents
Date: September 2018 - June 2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: General Nutritional Education Community Based, FCS newsletter
Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, EFNEP, SNAP-ed, publications supporting nutritional health and habits for a lifetime, nutrition education programs to SNAP eligible recipients
Inputs: Agent, EFNEP Assistant, Homemaker/FCS Volunteer leaders/Teachers
Date: August 2018 - June 2019
Audience: Adults, Extension Homemakers, Family and Consumer Sciences Clientele (Community at Large), youth
Project or Activity: Small Space Gardening for the Home - Family Centered Approach
Content or Curriculum: Extension Plate It Up Ky. Proud Resources and supporting Food Preservation Approved Research-Based Curriculum from the University of Kentucky and/or HES/FCS publications. Learning Lesson for Extension Homemakers and At-Large use in county-based outreach delivered by FCS Agent
Inputs: University Curricula, District FCS Agents, Floyd County Agent, Extension Homemakers, FCS Advisory Council, County residents, Senior Housing Authority, Faith community, merchants, Chamber of Commerce, Farmer's Market, Appalachian Roots Group and other Civic entities
Date: May 2018- June 2019
Author: Andrea Slone
Major Program: Food Preservation
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, one in five households in the United States practice home canning. The Center for Disease Control has stated that 30 percent of botulism cases from the past decade was caused by home canning practices. As by popular demand in the county, the Floyd County Family & Consumer Science Agent held multiple food preservation hands-on workshops throughout the county for 27 individuals. The workshop consisted of vegetable preservation us
Author: Andrea Slone
Major Program: Food Preparation
According to the United States Census Bureau there are 18, 453 households in Floyd County, KY with an average of 2.42 persons living in the each household. According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Kentucky is below the national average of fruit and vegetable consumption among youth. The Center for Disease Control states that adults in Kentucky are also below average of the national fruit and vegetable consumption.The Floyd County Family & Consumer Sciences Advisory Council suggested
Author: Andrea Slone
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to the United States Census Bureau, the median household income in 2017 in Floyd County, KY was $31,196. The per-capita income was $18,366 with 32% of persons below the poverty line. Food insecurity has been a rising and continued issue in Floyd County. In 2017, Feeding America claimed that 7,150 individuals in Floyd County were food insecure.In partnership with the Floyd County Health Department, the Floyd County Family & Consumer Science Program offered the Cook Together, Eat Tog
Author: Andrea Slone
Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
The Floyd County Cooperative Extension Service and Family & Consumer Sciences Advisory Council implemented Truth & Consequences: The Choice is Yours, a scenario based role-play activity designed to help students learn more about the physical, legal, financial, and emotional consequences of substance abuse, for 170 Floyd Central High School students. 31 community partners and adult volunteers participated in the event. Students rotated between five different stations. The stations in
