Making Healthy Lifestyle ChoicesPlan of Work

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Lee County CES

Title:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
MAP:
Healthy Living/Healthy Lifestyles
Agents Involved:
Ted Johnson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Food Preservation
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Situation:
For years eastern Kentucky has been identified as an unhealthy region in the United States, but also within the state. This proves true in Lee County where the obesity (33.4%), smoking (40.7%), diabetes (12.1%), and physical inactivity (36.3%) rates all hovering above the state rates for each category, with state rates for each category hovering above the national rates. A major area of focus is healthy living- specifically gardening, food preservation, nutrition education, drug education, and healthy relationships (bullying).
Long-Term Outcomes:

A decrease in obesity in the youth, adult, and elderly population in Lee County.

An increase in regular healthy lifestyle choices including increased physical activity, access to appropriate healthcare/screenings, and increase in healthy eating and nutrition.

An increase in physical infrastructure to promote and improve access healthy living and health lifestyle choices.

An increase in use of preventative healthcare concurrent with the decrease of reactive healthcare.

An increase in access to healthy foods.


Intermediate Outcomes:


Increase in practice of healthy eating and nutrition habits.

Increase in the number of households with a garden for fresh fruits and vegetables and increase in quality of those gardens and production skills


Initial Outcomes:

An increase in knowledge, skills and understanding of good nutrition, healthy eating, and appropriate physical activities for every age.

A change in attitudes and opinions around healthy habits and choices.

Increase in skills related to meal preparation and food preservation.

Knowledge and understanding of healthy relationships and interactions.

Gain knowledge in many aspects of home horticulture and gardening.

Participants become more aware of Extensions role in addressing the needs of producing and consuming fresh fruits and vegetables

participants understand procedures of production and processing of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Understand food safety and handling procedures

Understand raised bed gardening


Evaluation:
Long Term Outcome: Decrease in the rate of negative health indicators in Lee County including obesity, diabetes, inactivity, smoking, etc.
Indicator: Local and state data, A decrease in chronic health problems in Lee County, and increase in individuals reporting healthy lifestyle choices and habits.
Method: Observations, surveys, data
Timeline: On-going

Intermediate Outcome: Increase in the practice of healthy decision making in food choices and physical activity level on a regular basis.
Indicator: The number of individuals that adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
Method: Pre-post tests, survey, self-reporting
Timeline: Upon program completion, 1 year follow up after program completion.

Immediate Outcome: Increase in the knowledge and understanding of healthy nutrition, appropriate physical activity, and healthy relationships on a regular basis.
Indicator: The number of individuals that participate in programing related to educating clientele on healthy lifestyles and express increased knowledge.
Method: Pre-post test, survey, self-reporting
Timeline: Immediately following program completion.
Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Middle School Students

Project or Activity: reality Store

Content or Curriculum: The Reality Store Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff and School Personal

Date: Spring 2018


Audience: Adults

Project or Activity: Food Preservation Workshops

Content or Curriculum: FCS Curriculum/Publications

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Summer-Fall 2017


Audience: Adults and Youth

Project or activity : Gardening

Content or Curriculum: Ag. publications

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Spring 2018


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Audience: 4th grade

Project or Activity: Raised Bed Garden Project

Content or Curriculum: Farm to School

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Spring 2017


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Audience: K-5 grade

Project and Activity: Raised Bed Garden Project

Content and Curriculum: 4-H and Ag Publications/Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff, Volunteers

Date: Fall 2017

Audience: adults

Project and activity: Raised Bed Gardening

Content and Curriculum: Ag. Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff and specialist

Date: Spring 2017



Success Stories

Food Preservation Workshop

Author: Laken Campbell

Major Program: Food Preservation

Nine participants completed the 2018 Lee County Food Preservation Program including five participants new to Cooperative Extension programming.  They learned the pressure canning, water bath canning, freezing and drying methods of food preservation.  Almost half (40%) of the participants reported using food preservation methods never or rarely prior to the class.  Many of the Lee County participants said that they learned about the program through a friend, the Extension agent or

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Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Author: Ted Johnson

Major Program: Local Food Systems

Consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables are very low in Lee County Kentucky. We rank at the bottom of most all health statistics for the state of Kentucky. We at the Lee County Extension Service have placed major program emphases on gardening and producing their own fresh fruits and vegetables. Five years ago we constructed a demonstration raised bed garden. This program was developed to address the need for our citizens to consume more fresh fruits and vegetables. Over the past 5 years we ha

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