Harrison County CES

Title:

Home and Farm Safety

MAP:

Safety

Agents Involved:

Mike Meyer, Benita Peoples, Jessica Barnes, Jessica Sayre

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Data Management & Tech

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Disaster Preparedness

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Agriculture 4-H Core Curriculum

Situation:

Also of concern is food supply, security, and home food safety. Beef Quality Assurance and Animal ID are important parts of food safety and essential to working with consumers and producers to insure safe food products. Farm and home safety education and firearm safety is also needed to prevent accidental deaths.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Reduce risk of accidental injury or death by educating the public on proper safety measures. Classes and activities will be offered relating to equipment, water, gun, pesticide, and natural disaster safety.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Families make changes in home for fire prevention, home and hunter gun safety, farm tractor, home lawn and equipment safety, water safety, railroad safety, and dangerous insect safety. Individuals will acquire and use severe weather radios.

Initial Outcomes:

Change home environment to improve safety.

Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Increased attendance and participation at programs offered that focus on safety
Indicator: Attendance
Method: pre and post evaluations on information presented
Timeline: immediately following the program(s)

Intermediate Outcome: Increased number of individuals who complete the safety programs offered
Indicator: Attendance, reduced medical costs, reduced emergency visits
Method: Personal testimonials, compilation of data
Timeline: All year

Long-term Outcome: Personal health and wellbeing increased, less accidents and fires and awareness of severe weather increased
Indicator: Attendance, results of screenings, reduced medical costs
Method: Personal testimonials, compilation of data, end of program written evaluations
Timeline: All Year

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: 4th and 5th grade students
Project or Activity: Safety Day
Content or Curriculum: Accident Prevention, Home and Farm Safety Education
Inputs: Volunteers, Harrison Memorial Hospital
Date: Apr-Oct.

Audience: Public
Project or Activity: Mesonet Weather
Content or Curriculum: Information Gathering Local Community Weather
Inputs: Weather station located on a local farmer's land, link to UK weather station on county extension website
Date: All Year

Audience: Youth and Adults
Project or Activity: 4-H Youth & Adult Home & Shooting Sports Safety Classes, in-school safety programs
Content or Curriculum: Safety Practices
Inputs: Harrison County Public Schools, home of former 4-H agent, volunteers
Date: All Year

Audience: Public
Project or Activity: 4-H Youth & Adult Farm, ATV, Tractor, Home Safety
Content or Curriculum: Safety practices through media, newsletter, radio and Safety Day educational programs
Inputs: Volunteers, Cynthiana Democrat, WCYN radio station, Harrison Memorial Hospital, Harrison County Public Schools
Date: All Year

Audience: Public
Project or Activity: 4-H Foods and Nutrition, Safety, Demonstrations & Speech Contests, Youth and Adult Fair entries, Awards
Content or Curriculum: Dietary requirements, safe and proper food handling
Inputs: volunteers
Date: All Year

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