Extension
It Starts With Us
Empowering Families
Empowering Citizens
Price, Fowler, Ammerman
Nurturing Families (general)
Nurturing Parenting
Keys to Great Parenting
Nurturing Fathers
Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Co-habiting, same-sex, divorced, widowed and single households are the new majority. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In 2013, 1 in 4 of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 40th in the nation. Children who live in poverty are more likely to have learning disabilities and developmental delays. Furthermore, children who start kindergarten with delayed development and fewer assets are by far more likely to repeat grades, get tracked into lower-tier classes and drop out of high school than more advantaged children. More than half of Kentucky’s 56 judicial circuits have some form of mandated divorce education; more such education is needed.
•Care for the physical and mental health and well-being of each individual over the long term
•Foster the optimal development of children and youth
•Practice parental leadership skills
•Build personal strengths and self-control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making.
•Embrace people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
•Reach out with empathy to people dealing with severe stress
•Access community resources when needed
•Become volunteers to make their community a better place to live for everyone
•Set and used family rules, routines and limited screen time
•Eat family meals four or more times a week
•Reduce stress levels, made time for selves, and/or made wise decisions about money, time, etc.
•Played and spent quality time with child daily
•Report child’s developmental progress over time
•Identify realistic expectations for child’s tasks
•Report using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to misbehavior, and setting and enforcing logical consequences
•Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
•Access community agencies and resources when needed
•Commits to set family rules regarding eating together, limiting screen time, active play and exercise, set routines
•Intends to manage stress; make time for self; listen, talk, bond with family members; read with child daily; teach responsibility in use of money, time, etc.
•Describes child’s developmental levels relative to averages
•Verbalizes realistic behavior expectations
•Lists developmentally appropriate playthings
•Discusses discipline vs. punishment, and preventive and positive discipline techniques
•Commits to using logical consequences for misbehavior
•Intends to contact community agencies for assistance
•Intends to participate in volunteer activities
Initial Outcome: Knowledge Gained
Indicator: Increased knowledge in importance in nurturing parenting and family bonding
Method: Written or Oral Evaluation, Pre and Post Test
Timeline: Immediate
Intermediate Outcome: Behavior Change
Indicator: Apply learned skills to make changes to strengthen family relationships
Method: Oral and Written Evaluations, Pre and Post Tests.
Timeline: 1-3 Years
Long-term Outcome: Changes in the community involvement of Grant County residents
Indicator: Families in Grant County foster the optimal development of children and youth
Method: Noticeable changes in family relationships, and policy changes that promote healthy family relationships.
Timeline: 10 years
Audience: Guardians with children
Project or Activity: Parenting Classes
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parenting
Inputs: Agent, specialists, community organizations
Date: Fall 2018
Audience: Teen Mothers
Project or Activity: Parenting Classes
Content or Curriculum: Keys to Great Parenting
Inputs: Agent, schools, community partners
Date: Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Audience: Parents and Children
Project or Activity: Parenting and nutrition
Content or Curriculum: Home is Where the Health Is
Inputs: Agent, assistants, volunteers
Date: Summer 2019
Audience: Grant County Children of all ages
Project or Activity: 4-H
Content or Curriculum: Various programs
Inputs: Agents, Snap Assistant, program assistants, staff, community partners
Date: April 2019
Author: Chris Ammerman
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Vertical integration has caused turmoil across the dairy industry in Kentucky all the while the onslaught continues in attacks on animal agriculture both creating large amount of scrutiny among consumers in the grocery store aisle. Distraught family farmers in empty barns and images of animal abuse have shared across social media platforms painting the all aspects of animal agriculture in a bad light.The Grant County Farm Bureau Federation and the Grant County Extension Service partnered t
Author: Rachael Price
Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)
Throughout all life stages, it is important to acknowledge and celebrate the changes that accompany aging. Family and Consumer Sciences Extension help individuals, families, and communities manage the challenges and discover the positive aspects of life transitions and growing older. To address some of these issues within Grant County, the Grant County Family and Consumer Sciences and Agriculture Programs collaborated with Bluegrass Navigators, and other local agencies and businesses to ha
