Clay County CES

Title:

Family Relations

MAP:

Nurturing Families

Agents Involved:

Lora Lee Frazier, Alissa Sebastian

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Mastering Food Choices

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Relationship Smart Plus 3.0

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Nurturing Families (general)

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)

Situation:

Clay County is rural county in Eastern Kentucky.29% of our head of households are 65 or older. 66.4% of our households are husband wife with their own children, 33.6% of our households are single parent with children under 18, 62% of our grandparents are responsible for their grandchildren. 46.2% have been responsible for their grandchildren over 5 years. 42% of our population is living below the poverty level.

Family communication is the key to the success of family life. Helping families to overcome stereotypes, appreciating individual differences, understanding the developmental stages, sharing a value system and goals and making wise decisions impacts family life by providing a supportive environment for the entire family unit thus impacting the community.

Long-Term Outcomes:

-Families will foster the optimal development of family members, care for the physical and mental health and wellbeing of each individual over the long term.

-Build personal strengths and self control, interpersonal communication, life skills, including wise decision making.

Intermediate Outcomes:

-Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships.

-Reduce stress level, make time for selves, and make wise decisions about time money and family.

-Identify realistic expectations for child and adult.

Initial Outcomes:

-Realize realistic behavior expectations for adults and children.

-Participants learn to manage stress, bond with family members and interact

with children and other family members; teach responsibility in use of money and time.

Evaluation:

Long-Term Outcome: Care for the physical and mental health and wellbeing of each individual over the long term.

Indicator: Number of adults and youth who demonstrate informed and effective decision making and who make lifestyle changes that improve personal health.

Method: Program evaluation long term, word of mouth.

Timeline: July 2016 - June 2020

Intermediate Outcome: Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships, reduce stress and improve decision making skills.

Indicator: number of adults and youth that demonstrate informed and effective decision making.

Method: Word of mouth, program evaluation, surveys.

Timeline: July 2016 - June 2020

Initial Outcome: Participants attending program gain knowledge of realize realistic expectations for themselves and their children.

Indicator: number of individuals reporting changes in knowledge, opinions and skills aspirations related to aging or personal relationships.

Method: Total number attending, immediate program evaluation and talking with participants.

Timeline: July 2016-June 2020

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Family Fun Night – Reading in a Winter Wonderland
Content or Curriculum: Bonding Activities
Inputs: FCS and 4-H Agent, volunteers, teens
 Date: Dec. 2018

Audience: Grandparents
Project or Activity: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Content or Curriculum: One Day Workshop
Inputs: Family & Consumer Sciences Agent volunteers, FCS Council,
Date: 2018-2019March/April

Audience: Middle School

Project or Activity: Relationship Smarts

Content or Curriculum Relationship Smarts

Inputs: Curriculum

Date - 2018-2019

Audience:  Families

Project or Activity: Creating and Maintaining Traditions Making Memories

Content or Curriculum: Publications

Inputs: FCS Agent 

Date: 2018-2019

Audience:  Adult Men and Women

Project or Activity:  Blue To You – Women & Depression; Men & Depression

Content or Curriculum:  UK Publications

Inputs:  FCS Agent

Date:  2018-19

Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Healthy Women

Content or Curriculum:  Stay Happy, Stay Healthy; Know Thyself, Let’s Get Moving

Inputs:  UK Publications

Date:  2018-19

Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Needlework Seminar

Content or Curriculum:  Needlework

Inputs:  Leaders, FCS Agents

Date:  March 2019

Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Come Sew

Content or Curriculum:  Leaders, FCS Agent

Inputs:  Agent, Leaders

Date:  Winter 2019

Audience:  Youth & adults

Activity:  4-H Fun with Painting

Content or curriculum:  Bonding, connecting with community/State Fair projects

Input:  4-H agent, FCS agent

Date:  2018-2019