Extension
It Starts With Us
Developing basic life skills, financial management, emergency preparedness and our environment
Life Skills Development
Vicki R. Boggs; Dawna Jace Peters, ANR Agent
Health & Wellbeing
Financial Education - General
Communications & Expressive Arts
Family and Consumer Science
Understanding how our daily choices can impact our environment is vital to conserving and preserving our natural resources and ensuring a healthy environment for present and future generations. Each decision individuals make has an impact on health, safety and personal development within the family, community and environment! It is also important to acknowledge the impact of current economic conditions on family financial management while also helping individuals understand and respond to changing economic conditions, while promoting healthy financial behaviors across the lifespan. According to U.S. Census Bureau Small Area and Income Poverty Estimates, in 2020, an estimated 25.8% of Leslie County residents overall lived in poverty, and an estimated 31.8% of children under age 18 lived in poverty, much higher than state and national averages. Since families have such limited resources, it is imperative that they learn to effectively manage them to ensure a brighter future. Leslie County Extension Councils support, participate and provide volunteer services and education for many programs.
-Create safe homes within environments that promote and support the physical and mental well-being of families throughout the life cycle.
-Improve the built and natural environment to increase active and healthy lifestyles.
-Increase number of clientele reporting improved financial stability and economic well-being.
-Improve the quality of life for residents in Leslie County by developing the skills to plan, budget, and monitor their financial status.
-Demonstrate skills to improve: disaster preparedness, solid waste management, and home safety.
-Practice one or more resource management behaviors resulting in increased savings.
-Increasing school attendance rates.
-Practice self-care skills to promote balance and lead toward better health and wellness.
-Change knowledge, opinions, skills, and/or aspirations in understanding of issues related to: disaster preparedness, solid waste management and home safety.
-Change knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes to improve employability through life skills and continued education practices.
-Increase financial literacy related to savings and investments.
-Audience will identify needs and wants setting short and long term goals to manage resouces
Initial Outcome: Participants will become responsible consumers by gaining the skills needed to make wise financial and career decisions as well as become knowledgeable about green living practices.
Indicator: Individual(s) acquire knowledge, skills, opinions, and aspirations.
Method: Observation; Written and verbal evaluations; Individual reports; NEERS reports
Timeline: July 2024-June 2025
Intermediate Outcome: Participants will make wise financial and career decisions and will increase practices related to green living.
Indicator: Number of individual(s) that report improved financial stability and career readiness and increased recycling, increase in use of green spaces .
Method: Observation; Written and verbal evaluations; Individual reports; NEERS reports
Timeline: July 2024-June 2025
Long-term Outcome: The economic and environmental well-being of Leslie County is strengthened.
Indicator: Positive change in statistics regarding poverty levels, average household income, graduation rates, and increased participation in recycling programs, increased participation in environmental education programs.
Method: Data analysis
Timeline: July 2024- June 2025: Ongoing
Audience: Homemakers/Community/Families
Project or Activity: Quicksand Area Traveling Holiday Road Show
Content or Curriculum: Moneywise/Financial Management Curriculum/ UK SNAP Resources
Inputs: Quicksand Area FCS Agents , Extension Staff and UK Specialists
Date: November 2024 & 2025: Annual Program
Audience: Youth (Ages 9-18)
Project or Activity: 4-H Beginning and Advanced Cooking Academies
Content or Curriculum: 4-H FCS Curriculum, Cooking 101-401
Inputs: 4-H Agent; FCS Agent; Extension Staff and Volunteers
Date: Summer 2024 and 2025
Audience: Youth (Ages 9-18)
Project or Activity: Summer Youth Project Days
Content or Curriculum: FCS and 4-H Curriculum, 4-H Arts Curriculum, Kentucky State Fair 4-H Catalog
Inputs: 4-H Agent; FCS Agent; ANR Agent; Extension staff; Extension homemakers and volunteers
Date: Summer 2024 and 2025
Audience: Youth (Grades 8 and 10)
Project or Activity: 4-H: Its Your Reality!
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Core Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent; FCS Agent; ANR Agent; Program Assistant, Community Businesses, Partners and Organizations; Extension Staff; Extension Volunteers; School Volunteers
Date: Fall 2024/2025
Audience: Adults, Homemakers, Youth and Community
Project or Activity: Recycling/Reduce/Reuse and Environmental Efforts
Content or Curriculum: Household Waste Management: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, 4-H Arts Curriculum,
Inputs: FCS Agent; 4-H Agent; ANR Agent; Program Assistant, Extension Staff; Solid Waste and Community Partners
Date: July 2024-June 2025, Ongoing
Audience: Senior Citizens, Adults/Youth/Families
Project or Activity: Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
Content or Curriculum: Focus on the Home: Disaster Preparedness and 4-H Emergency Preparedness Approved Materials
Inputs: FCS Agent; 4-H Agent, Program Assistant, ANR Agent
Date: July 2024-June 2025
Audience: Youth (K-3rd Grade)
Project or Activity: 4-H Cloverbuds Day Camp Program
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Approved (including a variety of areas such as: Science, Health and Creative Expression)
Inputs: 4-H Agent; Program Assistant; Extension Staff
Date: Spring/Summer 2024 and 2025 (Annually)
Audience: Pre-School Age and Parents/Grandparents/Caregivers
Project or Activity: Child Development Playdates
Content or Curriculum: Laugh and Learn FCS Curriculum; UK Specialists and team
Inputs: FCS Agent; Program Assistant, Extension Staff; Parent Volunteers
Date: January-December 2024 & January-December 2025
Author: Vicki Boggs
Major Program: Emergency Disaster Preparedness - FCS
Situation:Kentuckians have experienced firsthand how natural disasters can occur any time and often with little warning. Disasters take many forms, and we can feel their impacts across most areas of family life. Because there is no “one-size-fits-all” disaster model, planning community outreach can be challenging, and Cooperative Extension is often involved in disaster preparation and response at the local level. Outreach and Educational Program Response/Participants:As a result
