Improving individual growth, personal well-being, healthy lifestylesPlan of Work

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Bell County CES

Title:
Improving individual growth, personal well-being, healthy lifestyles
MAP:
Making healthy lifestyle choices
Agents Involved:
Rebecca Miller, Brandy Calvert
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
Situation:
Challenges to health and personal well-being threaten the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancers. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. Youth are not immune to this issue. Healthy living is one of three 4-H mission mandates. Components of Kentucky 4-H Health Core Curriculum include: physical activity, substance abuse, bullying, safety, and character education. In addition, minorities and individuals (including youth) residing in Appalachia bear a heavier brunt of the obesity and chronic disease burden. The goal of the Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices Initiative is to reverse these trends by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote the health and wellness in all Kentuckians.
Long-Term Outcomes:
Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily, in youth and adults.

Improvement in the mental health and wellbeing of clientele, both young and old.

Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, tobacco use and drug abuse.


Intermediate Outcomes:
Maintain appropriate calorie balance during each stage of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, pregnancy and breastfeeding and older age.

Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors.

Increased adoption and mastery of healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Initial Outcomes:
Youth and adults will identify healthy lifestyle choices.

Youth and adults will understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
Evaluation:
Initial Outcome: Youth and adults will identify healthy lifestyle choices. Youth and adults will understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
Indicator: Clientele recognize healthy food and behavior choices.
Method: Written and oral evaluation
Timeline: 0-3 months

Intermediate Outcome: Increased adoption and mastery of healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Indicator: Clientele will practice healthy eating and demonstrate appropriate responses to stress.
Method: Written and oral, pre/post test
Timeline: 3-9 months

Long-term Outcome: Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, tobacco use and drug abuse.
Indicator: Long-term lifestyle changes have been made which improve health and well-being.
Method: Surveys and statistics
Timeline: 3-4 years
Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Youth, families, adults

Project or Activity: LEAP

Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum/books

Inputs: Agents, Schools, Extension resources, SNAP-Ed Assistants, Family Resource Centers, Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency, Homemakers

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: Homemakers, families, professionals

Project or Activity: Weigh 2 Go

Content or Curriculum: Weight the Reality Series material

Inputs: Healthcare professionals, Extension resources, Agents

Date: 2017-2020



Audience: 4-H Youth and Cloverbuds

Project or Activity: Don't be a Bully!

Content or Curriculum: Extension Resources

Inputs: Agent, schools, Family Resource Centers

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: 4-H Youth

Project or Activity: Hygiene Basics

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum, Center for Disease Control materials

Inputs: Agents, Family Resource Centers, Schools, Local businesses and healthcare professionals

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: Families, homemakers

Project or Activity: Blue to You

Content or Curriculum: Extension resources and materials

Inputs: Agent, Non-profit community organization

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: Families and homemakers

Project or Activity: Strong Women, Healthy Hearts

Content or Curriculum: UK Publications, American Heart Association

Inputs: Community Action Agency, Healthcare professionals, Agents, volunteers

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: Families, youth, homemakers, business professionals

Project or Activity: Get Moving Kentucky!

Content or Curriculum: UK publications

Inputs: Agents, staff, non-profit organizations

Date: 2017-2020


Audience: Homemakers, youth, families

Project or Activity: My Plate!

Content or Curriculum: SNAP curriculum, Professor Popcorn curriculum

Inputs: Agents, staff, schools

Date: 2017-2020



Audience: Families & Seniors

Project: Farmacy

Curriculum: Healthy Choices for Everybody

Inputs: Agents, MCHC, farmers

Date: 2017-2020



Success Stories

Familes Ready EveryDay

Author: Rebecca Miller

Major Program: Nurturing Families (general)

     Families Reading Every Day is a program designed to encourage families to read to the children in their lives. With family life style’s getting busier and children watching more television and being involved with playing video games, parents find it difficult to have a meaningful relationships with their children. Studies, also, show that children who are read to for at least 20 minutes a day are more likely to do better in school and not have as many discipline pr

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Weigh 2 Go Wednesday

Author: Rebecca Miller

Major Program: Weight the Reality Series

     According to The State of Obesity: Better Policy for a Healthier America, Kentucky has the seventh highest obesity rate in the nation. With obesity continuing to rise each year the Bell County Extension Council expressed the need for some weight management classes in our county.  FCS Agent and SNAP ED Assistant held Weigh 2 Go Wednesdays, a 10 week weight program that met once a week to see who would become the “Biggest Loser.”      The program

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Citizenship, lifeskill needs leads to formation of 4-H Junior Homemaker Club

Author: Brandy Calvert

Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum

Citizenship, lifeskill needs leads to formation of 4-H Junior Homemaker Club

After a 2017 needs assessment with the County Extension Council revealed that youth in the Appalachian area of Bell County need an opportunity to acquire life skills, leadership skills, value citizenship, and experience service-learning, the 4-H Junior Homemaker Club was born.  This club, in its instructional design, represents a marriage of the core components of the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (UKCES) Family and Consumer Science (FCS) program and the UKCES 4-H You

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