Youth Nutrition, Fitness and Healthy Lifestyles
4-H Nutrition and Wellness
Prim, Farley, Linepensel, Agnew, Harney
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Healthy living is one of three 4-H mission mandates. Components of Kentucky 4-H Healthy Core Curriculum include: physical activity, substance abuse, bullying, safety, and character education. Moderate physical activity can reduce the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, stress and high blood pressure. Early substance use in childhood/adolescence affects later drug use (National Healthy Living Task Force).
Increase number of youth maintaining positive health habits.
Increased number of youth at a lower risk for serious disease and illness.
Youth will develop into competent, capable, contributing adults as important developmental assets are met through their participation in 4-H Health programs.
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.
Youth will identify healthy lifestyle choices.
Youth will understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
Initial Outcome: Youth will identify healthy lifestyle choices.
Youth will understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
Indicator: Evaluation results and testimonials
Method: post program evaluation and client/parent/teacher testimonials
Timeline: July 2018-June 2019
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: Evaluation results and testimonials
Method: follow-up evaluations and client/parent/teacher testimonials
Timeline: July 2018-June 2019
Long-term Outcome: Increase in number of youth maintaining positive health habits.
Increased number of youth at a lower risk for serious disease and illness.
Youth will develop into competent, capable, contributing adults as important developmental assets are met through their participation in 4-H Health programs.
Indicator: observation and testimonials
Method: client/parent/teacher testimonials
Timeline: July 2018-June 2019
Audience: Campbell County Youth, 4-H School Club members
Project or Activity: Healthy Foods Taste Test
Content or Curriculum: USDA myPlate curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives, KY Proud Recipes
Inputs: paid staff, program support funds
Date: July 2018-June 2019
Audience: Campbell County 4-H Members
Project or Activity: 4-H Newsletter
Content or Curriculum: monthly UK HEEL Health Bulletin
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds
Date: July 2018-June 2019
Audience: Campbell County Youth
Project or Activity: Health Fairs
Content or Curriculum: USDA myPLate curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives, dangerous look a likes, awareness of sugar/fat content in foods
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, school facilities
Date: March 2018 – April 2019
Audience: Dayton KY Youth
Project or Activity: Dayton Free Lunch program
Content or Curriculum: USDA myPlate curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives, SPARK
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, school facilities
Date: Bi weekly July 2018
Audience: Bellevue and Southgate, KY Youth
Project or Activity: Free Lunch Program
Content or Curriculum: USDA myPlate curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives, SPARK
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, school facilities
Date: July 2018
Audience: 4-H members ages 9-14
Project or Activity: 4-H foods/nutritious projects
Content or Curriculum: SNAPed materials and incentives, guest speakers, National 4-H curriculum, state fair and Alexandria fair guidelines, 4-H record books
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, volunteers, fairground facilities
Date: July 2018-June 2019
Audience: Campbell County Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Safety Night and Bicycle rodeo
Content or Curriculum: Bicycle Adventures National 4-H curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives, local fire department materials
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, local firehouse facilities, volunteers
Date: July 2018
Audience: Campbell County Campers
Project or Activity: Foods Classes
Content or Curriculum: SNAPed materials and incentives, USDA myPlate curriculum, SPARK
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, school facilities
Date: July 2018
Audience: Newport Teens
Project or Activity: Monthly after school cooking projects
Content or Curriculum: USDA myPlate curriculum, SNAPed materials and incentives
Inputs: paid staff, district board funds, school facilities
Date: Aug 2018- May 2019
Audience: Campbell County Youth
Project or Activity: Health lessons
Content or Curriculum: Health Rocks curriculum, state supported materials
Inputs: staff, program money, volunteers
Date: July 2018-June 2019
Author: Sherri Farley
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
As part of a need expressed by an elementary school in the county, an after school 4-H foods club was implemented over a 4 week period. 16 youth, 5 female, 11 male, signed up for the club. The 4-H program has a strong partnership with this elementary school, i.e. school clubs, after school program, involvement on the FRC advisory council. The target audience was grades 3rd through 5th. A teacher at the school volunteered her time to stay and help with the club each session. Usin
Author: Kate Thompson
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
In Kentucky, 37.1% of children are overweight or obese, and 51% of Kentucky children are not exercising regularly (Kids Count, 2016-2017). Kentucky has the 8th highest rate of childhood obesity in the nation (State of Obesity, 2016). In Campbell County (population 92,488), adult obesity is 32%. Twenty-four percent of adults in the county are physically inactive. Healthy habits started in childhood are likely to continue into adulthood. In order to foster heal