Active Living and Health PromotionsPlan of Work

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Ballard County CES

Title:
Active Living and Health Promotions
MAP:
Improve Physical and Mental Health
Agents Involved:
SD
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Active Living and Health Promotions General
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
National Dining with Diabetes
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Building Healthy Coalitions
Situation:

The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. 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. These trends can be reversed by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote the health and wellness in all Ballard County.

Long-Term Outcomes:
Intermediate Outcomes:
Initial Outcomes:


Evaluation:

Outcome: Increased awareness of local Physical Activity Events

Indicator: Number of people who indicate and increased awareness of physical activity events

Method: Survey

Timeline: At the end of the Wheels and WINGS


Outcome: Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Intake 

Indicator: Number of individuals who reported eating more foods (such as fruits; vegetables; especially dark green and red and orange vegetables and beans and peas; whole grains, fat free or low-fat milk and milk products; seafood twice a week, fiber) for the purpose of improving health.

Method: Follow-up survey

Timeline: 1 month after Dining with Diabetes


Outcome: Chronic Disease Prevention

Indicator:  Number of individuals who reported: participants who had one or more health indicator (cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index, blood glucose) improved.

Method: Self-report survey

Timeline:  Pre-test and post-tests during Keys to embracing aging 


Outcome:  Availability/Access to healthy lifestyle choices 

Indicator:  Number of community members who reported: implemented policy, system, and/or environmental changes to promote healthy eating and active living

Method: Self-report survey

Timeline:  Pre-post implementing curricula or program

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Community 

Project or Activity:  Policy, Systems, and Environmental Approaches

Content or Curriculum: Building Health Coalitions

Inputs: Volunteers, faith-based organizations, community partners, key stakeholders, elected officials, Employee Health and Wellness, SNAP-Ed Toolkit 

Date: Ongoing projects throughout the year


Audience: Community 

Project or Activity: Active Living and Healthy Promotions General 

Content or Curriculum: Wheels & WINGS: Bike Ride

Inputs: Community Education, Purchase District Health Dept., Extension Service, Agents, Riders Region-wide, COMPASS Coalition

Date: May 2021


Audience: Families and Individuals 

Project or Activity: Chronic Disease Prevention 

Content or Curriculum: Dining with Diabetes

Inputs: Specialist, Program materials, Extension Agent, Support Group, participants, Senior Citizens Center staff, Extension Office

Date: Ongoing thought the year 


Audience: Families and Individuals

Project or Activity: Chronic Disease Prevention 

Content or Curriculum: Keys to Embracing Aging

Inputs: Programmatic materials, Healthcare Providers, Health Department, Volunteers, Health Partners, Community partners, Extension Agent 

Date: Ongoing throughout the year


Audience: Homemakers

Project or Activity:  Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices General

Content or Curriculum: Health Bulletins and Monthly Leader Lessons

Inputs: Volunteers, Extension Agent, community partners

Date: Monthly




Success Stories

21st century nutrition

Author: Paula Jerrell

Major Program: Health

Ballard County has had 45 youth involved in afterschool nutrition education classes through the 21st Century Afterschool Program. We have had fifteen K-1, fifteen 2-3 and fifteen 4-5 graders.  They rotate through the class every three weeks.  We have focused on where our food comes from, food groups, serving sizes and they applying what they have learned by each of them making a MyPlate of their own and then a menu for a day of their own. Each lesson also includes physical activity. &n

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Laugh and Learn Kits

Author: Sarah Drysdale

Major Program: Family Development General

In Kentucky, “School readiness means that each child enters school ready to engage in and benefit from early learning experiences that best promote the child’s success”. Kentucky has broken school readiness down into five domains: physical and motor development; social and emotional development; approaches to learning; language development; and cognitive development. A child's readiness score is determined by measuring a student’s cognitive, physical and language deve

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21st Century Ag Fun Day

Author: Sarah Drysdale

Major Program: 21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)

Fifty-seven youth with diverse backgrounds were educated on agriculture through the 21st Century After School Program Summer Enrichment opportunity. Youth spent the first week learning about all aspects of agriculture including horticulture and transplanting plants; animals on the farm; where wool comes from and the uses of it; soil profiles; bees and beekeeping; agriculture related math; the limited resource, soil, for growing our food; and sun safety on the farm.  Extension professionals

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