Extension
It Starts With Us
Nurturing Families
Promote Healthy Lifestyles
Katie Trump
Nurturing Families (general)
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 2013, 25 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 40th in the nation. Children who live in poverty are more likely to have learning disabilities and developmental delays. Furthermore, 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. County Extension Council and the BCEHA Council have chosen that nurturing families programming is a priority for Boone County families.
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 selfcontrol, 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
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
•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
Initial Outcome: knowledge gained in maternal and child health and parenting skills are improved
Indicator: ?Number of individuals (parents or caregivers) reporting improved personal skills (such as increased personal strengths, interpersonal communication and life skills to strengthen families)
?Number of individuals reporting behaviors that foster the optimal development of children and youth
Method:pre post survey and testing
Timeline: one year
Intermediate Outcome:
?Number of individuals (parents or caregivers) demonstrating nurturing attitudes and behaviors by caring for the health and well-being of individuals throughout the lifespan.
Indicator: positive parenting and disciplines are exercised
Method: surveys, interviews, observations
Timeline: two years
Long-term Outcome:
?Number of parents and/or caregivers who practice one or more parental leadership skills such as parental empathy, proper ways of establishing family rules, and concrete support their child to develop a sense of positive self-worth
?Number of individuals actively engaged in collaborations and programs that build community capacity to nurture families
Indicator: better communities and productive healthy families
Method: observations, surveys, data collection
Timeline: four years
Audience: mothers, fathers, parenting groups,
Project or Activity: activities, hands on workshops and programs
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parenting, Plate it Up, Home is Where the Health Is
Inputs: supplies, materials, teaching time, marketing,
Date: ongoing on Tuesdays and quarterly in Spring Summer Winter and Fall
Audience: Food Stamp Recipients
Project or Activity: Food distributions
Content or Curriculum: USDA materials
Inputs: recipes and marketing items
Date: July, November and February
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