Promoting Healthy LifestylesPlan of Work

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Oldham County CES

Title:
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
MAP:
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Agents Involved:
Kelly Woods, Chris Duncan, Traci Missun
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Food Preservation
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Food Preparation
Situation:

Situations have been identified through County Extension Council, program councils and community issues activities and feedback. Extension Council reviewed and prioritized several top county issues that Extension can address through programs: Family Development, Cultivating Family Living, Character Education and Self Reliance Skills.


There has been a substantial increase in non-farm residents wanting to learn how to grow, cook and preserve their own food over the last several years.


Healthy Lifestyles programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; help communities to decrease hunger; and teach participants about healthy and safe food production and preparation and proper nutrition.

Moderate physical activity can reduce the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, stress and high blood pressure.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Participants will increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables and encourage family meal preparation.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Participants will practice food safety principles while preparing and handling food. Participants will use nutrition skills learned to make good buying and eating decisions. Youth will practice good mealtime manners and personal manners. Participants will use gardening skills to grow their own vegetables.

Initial Outcomes:

Participants will discover the MyPlate recommendations while learning to read recipes for meal preparation. Participants will also learn to measure recipe ingredients properly. Participants will understand the importance of fruits and vegetables in diets and nutrition needs for diabetics. Participants will indicate understanding of how to grow their own vegetables.

Evaluation:

Long-term Outcome: Participants will increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables and encourage family meal preparation.

Indicator: Number of participants reporting.

Method: Survey sent to participants

Timeline: 2018-2019 program year.


Intermediate Outcome: Participants will practice food safety principles while preparing and handling food. Participants will use nutrition skills learned to make good buying and eating decisions. Youth will practice good mealtime manners and personal manners. Participants will use gardening skills to grow their own vegetables.

Indicator: Number of participants reporting these.

Method: Observations and survey

Timeline: 2018- 2019 program year


Initial Outcome: Participants will discover the MyPlate recommendations while learning to read recipes for meal preparation. Participants will also learn to measure recipe ingredients properly. Participants will understand the importance of fruits and vegetables in diets and nutrition needs for diabetics. Participants will indicate understanding of how to grow their own vegetables.

Indicator: Participants reporting change

Method: Pre and Post test; observations; surveys

Timeline: 2018-2019 program year


Learning Opportunities:

Activity: Kids Cooking Camp

Audience: Youth ages 9-13

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Foods Curriculum

Inputs: 4-H Council, FCS Staff and EFNEP

Date: June 2019


Activity: Tweens Cooking Clubs

Audience: Middle School students

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Food Curriculum and EFNEP Curriculum

Inputs: 4-H Staff, School Staff,

Date: All School Year


Activity: Character Counts

Audience: 5th grade students

Content or Curriculum: Character Counts!

Inputs: Character Counts! Curriculum

Date: Monthly- School Year 2018-2019


Audience: County Residents

Project or Activity: Food Preservation Classes

Content or Curriculum: UK Food Preservation Curriculum

Inputs: Oldham Co. FCS Agent

Date: June - September 2018


Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource Families - High Point Mission

Project or Activity: Cooking and Nutrition Classes

Content or Curriculum: NEP Calendar Recipes, UK Food & Nutrition Publication

Inputs: FCS Agent and EFNEP Assistant

Date: Selected Mondays



Audience: Oldham County Residents

Project or Activity: Cooking Classes on Oldham County TV

Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud

Inputs: FCS Agent, Fiscal Court Media Specialist

Date: Summer and Fall 2019


Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource Families

Project or Activity:  Cooking Demonstrations and Nutrition Tips at Highpoint Mission (Food Bank)

Content or Curriculum: NEP Calendar Recipes, UK Food & Nutrition Publication

Inputs: FCS Agent and EFNEP Assistant

Date: Selected Mondays in 2018-2019


Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource and Limited English Families

Project or Activity: Gardening Classes; individual gardening advice; hands-on planting activities at Highpoint Mission (Food Pantry)

Content or Curriculum: UK Extension Gardening Curriculum

Inputs: Agriculture Agent and Horticulture Assistant; possibly Spanish Translator

Date: 2018-2019


Audience: Extension Homemakers and General Public

Project or Activity:  Come Sew with Us

Content or Activity:  Projects selected by Master Clothing Volunteers

Inputs:  FCS Agent and Master Clothing Volunteers

Date:  Monthly, Sept. 2018  -  April 2019


Audience:  Extension Homemakers and General Public

Project or Activity:  Baking for 1 or 2

Content or Curriculum:  Approved UK FCS materials

Inputs:  Louisville Area FCS Agents

Date:  March 2019


Audience:  Extension Homemakers

Project or Activity:  Stroke Awareness

Content or Curriculum:  UK approved materials and materials from the Stroke foundation

Inputs:  Louisville Area FCS Agents

Date:  September 2018



Success Stories

Community Walk

Author: Christine Duncan

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

Physical activity is vital to good health. One of the easiest activities is walking. The Oldham County FCS Agent and members of the Healthy Oldham County Coalition collaborated with the KY Coalition for Healthy Communities to organize a district Challenge Walk to encourage residents to be more physically active. Six Louisville Area counties participated. Participants were ask to count their steps using pedometers or other step counting devices for one hour. Oldham County

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Still Room for Improvement

Author: Christine Duncan

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

Still Room for ImprovementOldham County has received the honor to be recognized as the healthiest in the State of Kentucky.  Regardless of this award we still have 28 % obesity for the general population and an even higher rate for minorities.  To address this issue the Family and Consumer Science agent and the EFNEP assistant offer Healthy Cooking and Nutrition classes.  After one of the seven session classes, one participant was so inspired that she wanted to take the informatio

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