Extension
It Starts With Us
Adapting Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Overall Wellbeing
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Amanda Dame, David Fourqurean
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Weight the Reality Series
Kentucky is identified as a high risk state for form accidents and fatalities, obesity, chronic health conditions, which effects overall well-being. McLean County has a reported 15.6% (20.0%-12.0%) of residents who have been diagnosed with diabetes (County Diabetes Atlas, McLean County in 2012). Furthermore, 35.6% (43.1%- 28.8%) of adults who are obese and 31.5% (39.0-24.6) of adults who reported no leisure time exercise in the past month (County Diabetes Atlas, McLean County in 2012). The goal of the making healthy lifestyle choices is to reverse these trends by working with various organizations, agencies and groups to promote the health and wellness of McLean County.
Source: CDC County Diabetes Atlas
•Decrease in the number of farm related accidents and fatalities.
•Decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly by 2% by the year 2020.
•Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily by 2% by the year 2020.
- Decrease drug, alcohol, and tobacco use by 2% by the year 2020.
•Citizens practice healthy food choices and strengthen individual’s ability to build healthy eating plan and patterns.
•Citizens practice healthy lifestyle decision making that strengthen individual’s ability to cope with normal life songstress.
•Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors.
•Farm families practicing farm safety procedures.
Change 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
•Policies that that reduce the level of obesity
•Farm families being able to identify hazards on the farm.
Outcome: Long term
Indicator: Number of citizens reporting an increase in physical activity, healthy food choices, and over all well-being.
Method: Survey, county health statistics
Timeline: 3- 4 years
Outcome: Long-term
Indicator: Decrease in the number of youth who report use/abuse of substance and alcohol abuse.
Method: Survey, county health statistics, and McLean County school reports
Timeline: 3-4 years
Evaluation:
Outcome: Long term
Indicator: Decrease in the number of adult, youth, and elderly who are obese/overweight
Method: Survey, county health statistics
Timeline: 3- 4 years
Evaluation:
Outcome: Long term
Indicator: Decrease in the number of farm related accidents reported.
Method: Observation, county statistics, data.
Timeline: 3-4 years
Evaluation:
Outcome: Intermediate
Indicator: Implementation of one or more safety procedures by farm families and employees.
Method: survey
Timeline: 6 months to 1 year
Evaluation:
Outcome: Intermediate
Indicator: Application of knowledge and skills to think critically to solve problems regarding health life choices.
Method: Survey, interview, follow up calls
Timeline: 6 months to 1 year
Evaluation:
Outcome: Intermediate
Indicator: An increase in the number of Citizens who practice healthy food choices and strengthen individual’s ability to build healthy eating plan and patterns.
Method: Survey, interview, follow up calls
Timeline: 6 months to 1 year
Evaluation:
Outcome: Intermediate
Indicator: Increase in individuals and families physical activity time and a decrease in time spent on sedentary behaviors
Timeline: 6 months to 1 year
Evaluation:
Outcome: Intermediate
Indicator: Community partners advocate for policy changes and increase marketing efforts to increase awareness and change relating to substance abuse in McLean County,
Timeline: 6 months to 1 year
Evaluation
Outcome: Initial
Indicator: Individuals can identify farm related safety hazards.
Method: survey and group discussion.
Timeline: 3 to 6 months
Evaluation:
Outcome: Initial
Indicator: 2% of program participants who report increased awareness and knowledge of healthy lifestyles choices and overall wellness.
Method: Evaluations and group discussion
Timeline: 3 – 6 months
Evaluation: Initial
Indicator: Number of community partners and youth who have gained knowledge of the resources that are available for substance abuse in our community as a result of Extension programming.
Method: survey and group discussion
Timeline: 3-6 months
Evaluation: Initial
Indicator: Increase in number of students who indicate they developed a better understanding of health, emotional, financial, risk and harm, and where to access help for substance abuse issues.
Method: Survey and group discussion
Timeline: 3-6 months
Audience: McLean County Residents attending the Farmers Market
Project: Pop Club (Power of Produce)
Content: University of Georgia program information
Inputs: Agents, Volunteers, Community Partners.
Date: June and July 2018 and 2019
Audience: McLean County residents
Project or Activity: Longest day of play
Content or Curriculum: UK Publications, eXtension.
Inputs: Agents, volunteers, community partners, UK Specialist.
Date: June 2019
Audience: Referred families from McLean County School
Project or Activity: A Taste of Thanksgiving
Content or Curriculum: HEEL, Kentucky CES publications and resources.
Inputs: Agents, volunteers, UK specialist, public and private health organizations
Date: November 2018
Audience: McLean County High School Students
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequence
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequence
Inputs: Agents, UK specialist, volunteers, community partners.
Date: October 2018
Audience: McLean County Residents
Project or Activity: Get Moving Kentucky
Content or Curriculum: Get Moving Kentucky, Kentucky extension publications and resource.
Inputs: FCS Agent, Partnership for Healthy McLean County, community partners, and volunteers.
Date: May 2019 to June 2019
Audience: McLean County Residents
Project or Activity: Plate It Up KY Proud at Farmers Market and other events
Content or Curriculum: Plate It UP KY Proud resources, UK Publications, and Specialist.
Inputs: Agents, Community Partners, Local Farmers Market Venders, UK specialist.
Date: July 2018 to June 2019
Audience: McLean County Head Start/ Preschool
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum
Inputs: Agents, Community Partners, UK Specialist
Date: September 2018 through April 2019
Audience: Cooking through the Calendar
Project or Activity: Healthy cooking and meal preparation
Content or Curriculum: SNAP Calendars, FCS Publications and Healthy Choices for Everybody Curriculum
Inputs: Agents, Community Partners, UK Specialist
Date: July 2018 to June 2019
Audience: McLean County Youth
Project or Activity: Super Star Chef
Content or Curriculum: Super Star Chef Curriculum
Inputs: Agents, Community Partners, UK Specialist, and volunteers
Date June 2018
Author: Amanda Dame
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to the American Heart Association, teaching youth how to prepare their own food will give them a skill they can use for a lifetime, they will be more likely to eat healthier as adults, and build self-confidence. The McLean County Extension Office collaborated with Family Resource and Community Education to provide the Super Star Chef three day cooking camp to children during the summer. Twenty children between the ages 9 to 18 attended this 3-day camp during the summer. Of these t
Author: Amanda Dame
Major Program: Faithful Families
In many Kentucky counties, limited resources and the environment may serve as barriers for healthy lifestyle choices related to nutrition and physical activity. As a novel strategy to improve the environment surrounding McLean County residents, the Family and Consumer Sciences Agent partnered with Beech Grove Chapel United Methodist Church to implement Faithful Families. Through this program, participants are challenged to improve nutrition, increase physical activity practices, practice food sa
Author: Amanda Dame
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
McLean County is a small rural farming community in Western Kentucky. In 2015, McLean County was ranked 50th in the state for obesity rates in Kentucky (KentuckyHealthFacts.org). Since that date, the county has lost two of the three grocery stores; creating a food dessert in most areas in the community. Master Chef was created as an after school program for middle school students focusing on educating youth on nutrition, healthy lifestyles, and food safety. This program has been implemented for
