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Clay County CES

Title:
Healthy Lifestyles
MAP:
Making Healthy LIfestyles Choices
Agents Involved:
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Ackerman, Jeff Casada
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Fit Blue/Get Moving KY
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Situation:

Clay County, a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families make choices to improve health and wellbeing, incorporate nutritious food into their diet, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease (including diabetes, heart disease stroke, cancer)prevention. 10% of our population is 18-24 years old, 57% is 25-64 years of age and 12% of is over 65 years of age. Our medium household income is $23,445. According to 2014 statistics 43% of our county is obese with 18% of our adults being diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults don’t meet the standard activity level. Lifestyle choices impact the quality and years of life.

Long-Term Outcomes:

-Increase the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating. Increase the management of chronic disease diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Increase the management of lifestyles factures impacting overweight adults and children.

Intermediate Outcomes:

-Families practice healthy food choices to strengthen the families’ ability to build healthy eating plans.


-Families practice physical activity in homes & communities.

Initial Outcomes:

-Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitudes related to making healthy lifestyle choices and adult weight management and chronic disease.


-Families increase knowledge skills attitudes related to healthy foods, learn how to prepare and preserve healthy foods.


Evaluation:

Long-Term Outcome: Increase the consumption of healthy foods and increase physical activity.

Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity, number that report eating more healthy foods, leading to improvement of quality of life.

Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.

Timeline: 2016-2020


Intermediate Outcome: Families practice healthy food choices to build healthy eating plans. Family practice physical activity.

Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity; number that report eating more healthy foods leading to improvement of quality of life.

Method: word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.

Timeline: 2016-2020


Initial Outcome: Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitude related to healthy life skill choices and weight management.

Indicator: Number that gained knowledge about eating healthy food. Number that reported understanding the benefits of spending time together in physical activity.

Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluations.

Timeline: 2016-2020


Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Adults 
 Project or Activity: Diabetes Support Group 
 Content or Curriculum: Diabetic Shoes
 Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent 
 Date: Quarterly 2019-2020

 Audience: Adults 
 Project or Activity: Plate It Up Cooking School 
 Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes 
 Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent, 
 Date: 3 times a year 

 
Audience: Adults & Children 
 Project or Activity: Just Get Moving 
 Content or Curriculum: Games & Activity 
 Inputs: Memorial Hospital, KECOC, Healthy Clay, Daniel Boone,4-H/FCS Agents 
 Date: Spring 2020 

 Audience : Families
 Project or Activity: Cook Together, Eat Together
 Content or Curriculum:  Cook Together, Eat Together  
 Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent/Agencies 
 Date: March 2020 

 Audience: Adults 
 Project or Activity: Holiday Cooking School 
 Content or Curriculum: Recipes 
 Inputs: Wilderness Trail Area Family & Consumer Science Agent 
 Date: November 2019 

 Audience: Families 
 Project or Activity: Mediterranean Diet
 Content or Curriculum: Mediterranean Diet 
 Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent 
 Date: 2019-2020
 

 Audience:  Women & Men                                                                                                                                             

Project or Activity:  DASH Diet

Content or Curriculum:  FCS publications                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Date:  2019-2020


Audience:  Working Women

Project or Activity:  One Pot Meals

Content or Curriculum:  Publication

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  2019-20


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Fit Blue KY

Content or Curriculum:  Fit Blue Curriculum

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Speaker

Date:  Fall 2019


Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Weigh 2 Go

Content or Curriculum:  Weigh 2 Go

Inputs:  Agent, Curriculum

Date:  Winter 2019-2020


Audience: Families 
 Project or Activity: Healthy Walking Healthy Life 
 Content or Curriculum: Walking Program 
 Inputs: Family & Consumer Sciences Agent 
 Date: Spring 2020                                                                                                                                                                                          

Audience: Middle School 7th     

Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences

Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences

Inputs: All Agents, Community

Date: December 2019


Audience: WTA Homemakers

Project or Activity: Leader’s Training

Content or Curriculum: Oops A Tinkle!  

Inputs:  Curriculum, FCS Agent

Date: 2019-2020


 Audience: Families

Project or Activity: Preserving Food 

Content: UK publications 

Inputs Agents

Date:  2019-2020


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Chef’s in Training

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Curriculum

Inputs: 4-H Agent

Date:   2019-2020


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Health Rocks

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Curriculum

Inputs: 4-H Agent

Date:  2019-2020 School year




Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Professor Popcorn

Content or Curriculum:  FCS/4-H Curriculum

Inputs: 4-H Agent

Date:  2019-2020 School year


Audience: Families

Activity: Recipe of the Month

Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes/Calendar Cooking

Input: Plate It Up Recipes, Grocery Stores, FCS Agent

Date:  All year 



Audience: Children

Activity: Whats in the Dr. Bag 

Content or Curriculum: Whats in the Dr. Bag 

Input: FCS Agent

Date:  2019-2020



Audience:  Youth

Activity:  Middle School Enrichment

Content or Curriculum:  Team Building With Youth

Input:  4-H Agent, Teachers

Date:  2019-2020



Audience:  Youth

Activity:  Manners for Real World

Content or curriculum:  Manners for Real World

Input:  4-H agent, teachers

Date:  2019-2020



Audience:  Youth

Activity:  Hygiene 101

Content or curriculum:  Staying Healthy – National 4-H Curriculum

Input:  4-H agent, teachers

Date:  2019-2020




Success Stories

Diabetes Coalition

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

Diabetes CoalitionThe incidence of diabetes in KY has doubled from 2000 to 2017, it increased to 12.9%. The prevalence of diabetes in the Cumberland Valley Region is 15.8 % and many are living with diabetes and don’t know they have it.The Family and Consumer Science Agent was asked to participate in a grant to form a Diabetes Coalition in Clay County.  Each county will receive 10,000.00 to form the coalition and sponsor programs for diabetics or pre diabetic individuals.The Clay Count

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Holiday Cooking School

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)

According to state health data, Clay County has a high prevalence of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity.  Research shows that a healthy diet reducing fat, sodium, and sugar lowers the risk of developing diabetes, decreases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and may protect from some cancers.  To address these concerns Family and Consumer Science Agents in the Wilderness Trail Area organized and conducted a Wilderness Trail Area Holiday Cooking School focused on mod

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4-H Chefs in Training

Author: Alissa Ackerman

Major Program: 4-H Family and Consumer Science Core Curriculum

4-H Chefs in Training

Clay County is a rural area located in eastern Kentucky and accessing fresh, nutritious foods can be a challenge for many families. According to the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, “Kentucky ranks 48 in overall prevalence with 37.1% of children considered either overweight or obese.” In order to help with this concerning challenge and council members assessing the needs of the county, the 4-H Agent implemented a 4-H Chefs in Training. The goal of the cooking clu

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Making Hygiene a Healthy Habit

Author: Alissa Ackerman

Major Program: 4-H Health Core Curriculum

Making Hygiene a Healthy Habit

According to the Center for Disease Control, hand-washing can prevent the spread of 1 in 5 flu, cold as well as numerous other infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many local communities and schools were concerned for the safety and health of their students and families. A local school requested a hygiene program to provide students with skills needed during this uncertain time.  By collaborating with the local hospital, Family Youth Resource Centers and 4-H Teen Club, the 4-H Agent im

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Healthy Bladder Habits

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)

Clay County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent taught Healthy Bladder Habits as a leaders training to Wilderness Trail Area leaders, total of 11 participants. Research suggests that 50% of women will experience urinary incontinence (UI) at some point in their lifetime and half of women experiencing UI do not discuss it condition with their physician. After 4 months a follow up evaluation was completed with these results 55% stated they gained knowledge on Pelvic floor and urinary incon

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Truth and Consequences Program

Author: Jeffrey Casada

Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming

Truth and Consequences - Clay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, opioids  and other various illegal and prescription drugs.  Nineteen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall we had over 200 march through town.   Many of our arrests for DUI are drug related rather than alcohol related. There is a need for continued substance abuse prevention and intervention in Clay County.  You only have to read the

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Programming During COVID 19

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

The COVID 19 virus changed the way programming was offered to clients in Clay County by the Family and Consumer Science Program. The Family and Consumer Science Agent did 14Facebook Live videos on a variety of topics to provide educational information to the public.  Publications related to some of the videos where provided in our public access vestibule for clients to pick up for additional information.Facebook Lives reached many more viewers than traditional programs ever had.  

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