Making Healthy Lifestyle ChoicesPlan of Work

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Campbell County CES

Title:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
MAP:
FCS - Making Healthy Lifesyle Choices
Agents Involved:
Rex, Thompson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Faithful Families
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes Program (Curriculum)
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Mastering Food Choices
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Situation:

The obesity epidemic threatens 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. As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans. Minorities and individuals 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:

*A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly

*Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily

*Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating

*Improvement in the mental health and wellbeing of Kentuckians

*Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and hypertension

*Increase the estimated health savings in dollars for chronic disease

Intermediate Outcomes:

INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES:

*Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals’ ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns

*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

*Changes related to obesity, physical and healthy eating

*Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical inactivity and chronic disease

*Practice healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthen individual’s ability to cope with normal life stressors

Initial Outcomes:

Changes in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding:

*Healthy lifestyle choices

*Childhood and youth obesity

*Adult weight management

*Healthy aging

*Practice and promotion of daily physical activity

*Reduction of chronic disease

Evaluation:
Long-Term Outcome: Follow-up   evaluations will be mailed to past participants.
Indicator: Documentation or testimonies will be given by the participants   that will prove that behavior has changed as a result of the program.
Method: 0ne, two, three, four, etc. evaluations will be given to discover   behavior change.
Timeline: One, two, three, four, etc. year evaluations will be administered.   Statistics will be studied and submitted to the Campbell County Extension by   professional collaborators/agencies/services that will prove social, economic   or environmental change has taken place.

Intermediate Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be sent to participants.
Indicator: A follow-up written evaluation will be mailed to each participant   to determine if he/she is practicing what was learned or demonstrated at the   program. Participants will answer the evaluation in a manner that will show   that participants are now practicing what was learned or demonstrated in the   program.
Method: A three, four or six month follow-up evaluation will be mailed out.   Teachers and parents will also be asked questions to determine if children   are practicing what they learned in the program.
Timeline: A three, four or six month evaluation will be mailed to   participants.

Initial Outcome: End of program evaluations will be utilized
Indicator: Written evaluations will be completed by each participant/student   at the end of each program. Hands-on evaluations will also be used to   evaluate the progress of the participants/students. Participants will answer   questions about the program/subject matter that will show that he/she has   learned from the class/program.
Method: Written evaluations and hands-on evaluations will be utilized.
Timeline: End of classes/programs.
Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Audience: Pre-schoolers
 Project or Activity: LEAP
 Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K.
 Inputs: Community and faith-based organizations, daycares and schools
 Date: Monthly Sept. 2018-May 2019
 
 Audience: Children 6-8 years of age and their parents, grandparents or guardian
 Project or Activity: Mommy & Me in the Garden and Kitchen

Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time, Plate It Up and NEP recipes

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Horticulture Assistant and Agent
 Date: The 4th Thursday of every month February-September 2018-2019
 
 Audience: Dayton Middle and High School Students
 Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
 Content or Curriculum: U.K. Curriculum-Truth and Consequences
 Inputs: Middle and High School Students and Teachers, Community drug awareness agencies and professionals, public and private health organizations
 Date: Fall 2018
  

Audience: Adults 65 years old and above
 Project or Activity: Matter of Balance
 Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance Curriculum
 Inputs: Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service, Physical Therapist
 Date: meets weekly for 8 week series, Summer 2018
 
 Audience: Campbell County Diabetes Support Group
 Project or Activity: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices with Diabetes  Support Group

Content or Curriculum: Taking ownership of your diabetes, SNAP recipes, Plate It Up! Recipes, Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Mealtime curriculum

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension Service FCS Agents, the Campbell County Diabetes Support Group and the Campbell County Senior Citizen Center and Northern Kentucky Health Department

Date: Second Thursday of every month throughout the year 2018-2019


Audience: Hosea House Soup Kitchen

Project or Activity: Making Healthy Choices with Hosea House
 Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes, SNAP recipes and Plate It Up!
 Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension Service FCS Agent, Hosea House

Date: Hosea House (Last Monday of every month throughout the year.) 2018-2019


Audience: Potential 12,600 Campbell County Media Central Viewers

Project or Activity: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices on CC Media Central
 Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent and Campbell County Media Central

Date: April 4, June 19, August 2, October 4, and December 6, 2018-2019 


Audience: Food Stamp Participants at the Food Stamp Office

Project or Activity: Making Healthy Choices with SNAP Participants

Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent and Department for Community Based Services (DCBS)

Date: A new display each month throughout the year 2018-2019


Audience: Campbell County Seniors
 Project or Activity: Senior Center Enrichment
 Content or Curriculum: UK publications, HEEL Publications, NIH Publications, Plate it UP
 Inputs: Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service, Campbell County Senior Center
 Date: Quarterly Classes Each Year


Audience: Pre-schoolers
 Project or Activity: Flowerbuds
 Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K., UK publications in FCS and Horticulture
 Inputs: Campbell County Extension Horticulture and FCS areas
 Date: Monthly

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Audience: Campbell County Recorder Readers (17,000)
 Project or Activity: FCS News Article
 Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agents and Campbell County Community Recorder Newspaper

Date: Monthly news articles throughout the year 2018-2019


Audience: St. John’s Lutheran Church Food Pantry Participants

Project or Activity: SNAP Education for St. John’s Food Pantry
 Content or Curriculum: NEP and SNAP Curriculum and recipes, Food Preparation, Accessing Nutritious Foods
 Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agents and St. John’s Lutheran Church and USDA

Date: Every 2nd Monday bimonthly throughout the year (2018-2019)




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