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Campbell County CES

Title:
Nurturing Families
MAP:
FCS - Nurturing Families
Agents Involved:
Rex, Thompson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Nurturing Parenting
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Keys to Great Parenting
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Blue To You
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Home is Where the Health Is
Situation:
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. Stresses on military families are more difficult and prolonged because of the demands on military personnel to serve multiple deployments, frequently in combat zones. 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 2009, 26 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 48th in the nation. 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.
Long-Term Outcomes:
Kentucky families are able to:
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
Intermediate Outcomes:
The number of people who:
Set and used family rules, routines and limited screen time
Ate family meals four or more times a week
Reduced stress levels, made time for selves, and/or made wise decisions about money, time, etc.
Played and spent quality time with child daily
Reported child’s developmental progress over time
Identified realistic expectations for child’s tasks
Reported using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to misbehavior and setting and enforcing logical consequences
Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
Accessed community agencies and resources when needed
Engaged in community outreach activities
Initial Outcomes:
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
Evaluation:
Long-term Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be mailed to past participants.
Indicator: Documentation or testimonies will be given by the participants that will prove that behavior has changed as a result of the program.
Method: One, two, three, four, (etc.) evaluations will be given to discover behavior change.
Timeline: One, two, three, four, (etc.) year evaluations will be administered. Statistics will be studied and submitted to the Campbell County Extension by professional collaborators/agencies/services that will prove social, economic or environmental change has taken place.

Intermediate Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be sent to participants.
Indicator: A follow-up written evaluation will be mailed to each participant to determine if he/she is practicing what was learned or demonstrated at the program. Participants will answer the evaluation based on what was learned or demonstrated at the program.
Method: A three, four, or six month follow-up evaluation will be mailed out. Teachers and parents will also be asked questions to determine if children are practicing what they learned in the program.
Timeline: A three, four, or six month evaluation will be mailed to participants.

Initial Outcome: End of Program evaluations will be utilized.
Indicator: Written evaluations will be completed by each participant/student at the end of each program. Hands-on evaluations will also be used to evaluate the progress of the participants/students. Participants will answer questions about the program/subject matter that will show that he/she has learned from the class/program.
Method: Written evaluations and hands-on evaluations will be utilized.
Timeline: End of classes/programs.
Learning Opportunities:
Audience: Children ages 6-8 and   their parents, grandparents or guardians
Project or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods with Mommy and Me
Content or Curriculum: Family Mealtime
Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   FCS Agent, Horticulture Agent and Assistant
Date: Every year – 4th   Thursday of every month February – September (2017-2018)

Audience: Court mandated teens and their parents, grandparents or guardians
Project or Activity: In the Driver’s Seat program
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parents
Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   FCS Agent, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Highland Heights Police Department   and Campbell County District Court, Judge Karen Thomas
Date: 4 times a year (May,   September, December, February) (2017-2018)

Audience: Dayton Middle and High School Students
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: U.K. Curriculum-Truth and Consequences
Inputs: Middle and High School Students and Teachers, Community drug awareness   agencies and professionals, public and private health organizations
Date: Fall 2017

Audience: Pre-schoolers
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K.
Inputs: Community and faith-based organizations, daycares and schools
Date: monthly Sept 2017 - May 2018

Audience: Hosea House Soup Kitchen   and Northern Kentucky Community Action/Faith Pharmacy
Project or Activity: Nurturing   Families at Hosea House, Northern Kentucky Community Action and Faith   Pharmacy
Content or Curriculum: Home Is Where the Health Is, Nurturing Parents, Blue   to You, Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Hosea House, Northern Kentucky   Community Action Commission and Faith Pharmacy
Date: Hose House: Every 4th   Monday of every month Northern Kentucky Community Action/Faith Pharmacy:   Every 4th Wednesday of every month (2017-2018)


Audience: General public &   Homemakers
Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers
Content or Curriculum: UK publications
Inputs: Campbell County   Cooperative Extension Service, NKY FCS agents
Date: August 21, 2017 and January   24, 2018

Audience:   County youth
Project or Activity: Flowerbuds
Content or Curriculum: U.K. Curriculum
Inputs: Lakeside Commons Educational Gardens, Hort Agent, Hort Technician,   FCS Agent
Date: monthly June 2017 – August 2017




Success Stories

Building Strong Families in Campbell County

Author: Kate Thompson

Major Program: Nurturing Families (general)

Many aspects play into building healthy relationships and strong families.  According to the University of Kentucky’s publication, “Family Vitality: Characteristics of Strong Families,” relationships that include good communication skills, fun times, time together, involvement with friends and community, commitment, and a healthy lifestyle are some essential characteristics of strong families (Rupured and Quick, 1997).   In order to build strong families and help fost

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