Developing Healthier Families with Diet and Physical ActivityPlan of Work

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Owen County CES

Title:
Developing Healthier Families with Diet and Physical Activity
MAP:
Healthy Life Style Choices
Agents Involved:
Judy Hetterman, Jessi Williams, FCS Program Assistant and NEP Assistants
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Family Mealtime (Curriculum)
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Situation:
Poor nutrition and limited activity have led to an increase in overweight and obese people throughout the country, as work has become more sedentary and diets are increasingly centered around prepared and restaurant foods. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancers. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. Community Partnerships working together through MAPP(Mobilizing For Action Through Planning Partnerships) to reverse these trends by promoting behavioral changes that will lead to improvement in the quality of health for Owen County citizens. Behavioral changes will lead to improvement in the quality of life for Kentuckians.
Long-Term Outcomes:
-Decrease in obese and overweight children, youth, adults, and elderly.
-Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily.
-Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating.
-Improvement in the mental health and well being of residents.
-Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension.
-Individuals will prepare meals at home 5 or more times a week.
-Individuals will increase their physical stamina.
Intermediate Outcomes:
-Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals' ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns.
-Maintain appropriate calorie balance during each stage of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age.
-Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors.
-Individuals will adopt one recommendation from the dietary guidelines.
-Individuals demonstrate food preparation skills.
-Individuals engage in good food safety practices.
-Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical activity, and chronic disease.
Initial Outcomes:
-Changes in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding healthy lifestyle choices, weight management and practice and promotion of daily physical activity or reduction of chronic disease.
-Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet.
-Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety, and food resource management.
-individuals will be able to identify the components of a healthy diet as defined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Individuals will be able to identify the components of a healthy diet as defined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Indicator: Number of individuals reporting an increase in knowledge related to the components of a healthy diet.

Method: Pre/Post written evaluation. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports.

Timeline: July thru June


Intermediate Outcome: Individuals engage in good food safety practices.

Indicator:Number of individuals who implemented the recommended practices for safe storage, handling, or preparation of food.

Method: Pre/Post written evaluation. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports

Timeline: July thru June


Long-term Outcome: Individuals will prepare meals at home 5 or more times a week

Indicator: Number of individuals reporting preparing meals 5 or more times a week.

Method: Pre/Post written evaluations. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports

Timeline: July thru June


Long-term Outcome: Individuals will be able to recognize and manage their health related issues such as: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension and depression. 

Indicator: Number of individuals reporting an increase in knowledge related to the healthy homemaker components is presented throughout the year.

Method: Pre/Post written evaluations. Extension Homemaker reports

Timeline: July thru June

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Enrolled NEP Families & Youth

Project or Activity: Direct education

Content or Curriculum: UK NEP Adult & Youth Curriculum, Wildcat Ways to Wellness, Plate It Up!,Super Star Chef, Professor Popcorn, OrganWise curriculum

Inputs: NEP State & Regional Staff, FCS Agent

Date: July thru June


Audience:Preschool thru 2nd grade students

Project or Activity:LEAP(Literacy, Eating, and Activity for Preschool)

Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum

Inputs: FCS Program Assistant, NEP Assistant and FCS agent

Date: September thru May


Audience: Senior Citizens

Project or Activity: Monthly program

Content or Curriculum: NEP curriculum

Inputs: NEP Assistants

Date: July thru June


Audience: Individuals or family members with diabetes

Project or Activity: Living Well with Diabetes

Content or Curriculum: UK Diabetes Information & Diabetes Association resources

Inputs: FCS Agent and Three Rivers Health District Educator

Date: July-June


Audience: Youth 9-19

Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking Club for Beginners

Content or Curriculum: Superstar Chef & NEP Curriculum

Inputs: NEP Assistant, FCS & 4-H Agent

Date: September thru May


Audience: Youth 9-19

Project or Activity: Advanced 4-H Cooking Club

Content or Curriculum: Superstar Chef & NEP Curriculum

Inputs: NEP Assistant, FCS & 4-H Agents

Date: September thru May


Audience: 5th grade students

Project or Activity: Recipe for Life

Content or Curriculum: WIN Kentucky Resource, Recipe for Life Curriculum through NEP

Inputs: FCS & 4-H Agents, program assistants, community leaders, extension homemaker volunteers, Master Food Volunteers

Date: September


Audience: General Public

Project or Activity: Second Sunday

Content or Curriculum: UK Resource

Inputs: FCS & 4-H Agents, program assistants, Three Rivers Health District Educator, Youth Services Director and NEP Assistants

Date: October


Audience: Homemaker Leaders from each county

Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers

Content or Curriculum: Resources prepared by FCS Agents & UK's specialists

Inputs: Northern KY FCS Agents & UK resources

Date: August 2017 & January 2018


Audience: Homemaker Members

Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers

Content or Curriculum: Resources prepared by FCS Agents & UK specialist

Inputs: Northern KY FCS Agent & UK resources

Date: September 2017 thru May 2018


Audience: Owen County High School Freshmen

Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours

Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours

Inputs: 4-H Agent, Freshmen Teachers, OC Drug Prevention Coalition, Community Volunteers, Guest Speakers

Date: Fall 2017



Success Stories

Recipes For Life

Author: Judith Hetterman

Major Program: Food Preparation

The “Recipes for Life” program is an educational experience, which provides a hands-on learning experience for175 fifth grade youth in Owen County annually, where they learn food preparation skills, kitchen and food safety, mealtime etiquette, and nutritional knowledge/healthy eating. The program goes along with the Kentucky Core Curriculum Math and Science skills which are innately a part of cooking as well as reading. Students are encouraged to share their student booklet, recipe b

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