Extension
It Starts With Us
Health and Wellness
Healthy Communities and Individuals
Eric Baker, 4-H agent
Leadership
Substance Use Prevention and Recovery General
Active Living and Health Promotions General
With the health and well-being of individuals becoming more and more of a concern local advisory councils felt that the extension service should work to curve the high obesity rate, and high over dose rate. As well as promote lifestyle changes the encourage a safer, healthier life.
To improve the quality of life
Reduce food related health issues
Reduce drug overdoses
Increase the use of proper safety equipment
Increase the use of healthy foods
Increase the amount of physical activity done by individuals
decrease the drug use rates.
Increase awareness about nutritious low cost foods for families
Increase knowledge of safety equipment and proper use
Increase awareness of effects of drugs
teach the skills for individuals to properly increase physical fitness
Initial Outcome: Increase Awareness of effects of drugs
Indicator: survey shows increased knowledge
Method: Survey
Timeline: Spring 2021
Intermediate Outcome: Increase the use of proper safety equipment
Indicator: Decreased severe injury rate
Method: interviews
Timeline: Spring 2021
Long-term Outcome: Improve the quality of life
Indicator: improved county statistics
Method: Kentucky Counts reports
Timeline: 2024
Audience: Community members
Project or Activity: Substance Abuse Awareness
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: All year
Audience: Low-income families
Project or Activity: SNAP-Ed
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Time, staff, curriculum
Date: Year Round
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Foods & Nutrition Programming
Content or Curriculum: Superstar Chef, International Foods, Professor Popcorn,
Inputs: time, staff, volunteers
Date: All year
Audience: youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Health Programing
Content or Curriculum: Jump into foods & fitness, Spark
Inputs: time, staff, volunteers
Date: All year
Audience: youth
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: Truth and consequences
Inputs: time, staff, volunteers
Date: Spring
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Health Fair
Content or Curriculum: Awareness
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: Annual
Audience: Community members
Project or Activity: Homemaker Officer Trainigs
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: Annual
Audience: Youth/Adults
Project or Activity: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Efforts
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: All year
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Youth Safety Day
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: Spring
Audience: Community members
Project or Activity: Farm Safety
Content or Curriculum: Education
Inputs: Curriculum
Date: Annual
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Sensational Salads
Content or Curriculum: Homemakers
Inputs: Agents
Date: January
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Sweet Enough Without All That Sugar
Content or Curriculum: Homemakers
Inputs: Agents
Date: February
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Radon: Why Is It Dangerous?
Content or Curriculum: Homemakers
Inputs: Agents
Date: March
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Sharing Meals Together: A Guide To Smarter Potlucks
Content or Curriculum: Homemakers
Inputs: Agents
Date: April
Author: Eric Baker
Major Program: Cook Wild Kentucky
Estill County contains 4,816 acres of the Daniel Boone National Forest and 116,480 acres of woodland habitat. Hunting wild game and consuming game meat is very popular. Since introducing the Cook Wild KY recipe cards, they have been very popular in Estill County. The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension ANR agent and SNAP program assistant collaborated to provide 20 grab bags of information and reinforcement items related to wildlife management and consuming/preparing game meat. Items in
Author: Taylor Miles
Major Program: Family and Consumer Science
Childhood obesity affects nearly 18% of youth in the country today, and that percentage rises 1% in lower income households. Estill County has a poverty rate of 22.7%, which is why our 4-H program felt it was very essential to work with our youth and teach them the importance of healthy living. Our 2020/2021 Virtual Cooking Club had fifteen members, who regularly attended our zoom meetings and would pick up a kit that included all the ingredients. The club met once a month from
Author: Eric Baker
Major Program: Local Food Systems
Restrictions of the COVID19 pandemic gave many people more time at home and renewed interest in growing home vegetables for their family. With increased questions about growing a garden, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Estill County ANR agent developed a Fall Victory Garden Grab-n-Go event. With assistance from the SNAP-Ed assistant, a SNAP farmer’s market mesh bag was assembled with gardening information and related incentive items to distribute to citizens first-come-fir
Author: Taylor Miles
Major Program: Leadership
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 2021 Kentucky 4-H Summit could not be implemented in the typical face-to-face format. Kentucky 4-H Program volunteers, members, and professionals decided, based on current events and fundamental developmental needs, that middle school youth needed the opportunity to connect to others and practice their leadership skills through 4-H. If adolescents are to develop the skills necessary for adulthood, they must learn basic skills for everyday life (Carnegie Coun
Author: Taylor Miles
Major Program: Communications and Expressive Arts
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 4-H programs across the state had to be held in a virtual format. We knew that with this, program participation may be down due to youth being tired of doing anything with a computer. The “Zoom Gloom” as the youth call it, was something we had to battle in order to reach and help youth be engaged in our programming. A fun alternative Estill County 4-H came up with was a 4-H Project Fair Series. In this series, youth would have the
