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Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices and Citizen Education
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices and Citizen Education
Carter, Dockery, Lindsay, Doggett, Kingsland, Kirkland, Smith
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
Local Food Systems
Business Retention and Expansion
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality of life 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. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90% over the last 15 years. Thirty-percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. Increased consumption of unhealthy foods, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic.
Nutrition education programs, local / home garden, and farmer's markets help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on healthy safe food preparation methods, importance of sustainable practices, and improvement of individual/local gardening practices. Citizens receive education on senior issues, parenting and low vision resources. Agents, paraprofessionals, and volunteers are pivotal in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table.
Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating.
Improve access and availability of local foods to the community. Provide education and resource availability regarding senior social issues, low visibility and parenting.
Practice of physical activity and healthy food choices in families and communities through decreased time of sedentary behaviors, maintaining appropriate calorie intake, and practicing healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthen individuals ability to cope with normal life stressors.
Residents will increase practices related to Community and Economic Development by increased participation in job preparedness programs, involvement in local community events, developing new jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities, and adopting fiscally responsible behaviors.
Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding childhood obesity, adult weight management, the practice and promotion of physical activity, and financial and mental well being.
Change Knowledge, Opinions, Skills, and / or aspirations in understanding of issues related to local foods, individual and market gardening, nutrition based on local food access, and farmer's markets.
Long-Term Outcome: There will be a decrease in obesity incidents related to youth and adult. Obesity will decrease due to increase daily physical activity and healthier eating choices. Youth and adults will also understand that having a better hold on financial and mental health will help decrease obesity issues.
Indicator: Increase in health care savings due to lower obesity rates and decreasing the rate of chronic disease among youth and adults.
Method: surveys
Timeline: On-Going
Intermediate Outcome: Youth and Adults will practice healthy food choices and will learn to build healthy eating patterns. They will also practice increase physical activity and better mental and financial health.
Indicator: Better nutritious choices, improvement in physical activity to their daily routine and understanding mental health and the affects of it.
Method: post surveys, follow up surveys
Timeline: On-Going
Initial Outcome: Youth and Adult will learn to distinguish what healthy food choices are. They will also learn the importance of practicing daily physical activity and the affects that financial and mental health can have on their well being.
Indicator: learning to build a healthy plate, importance of physical activity and mental health. how saving financially can help with obesity rates.
Method: survey
Timeline: On-Going
Long-Term Outcome: Improve access and availability of local foods to the community.
Indicator: Increase in local food business, increase in farmer's market participation and use, increase in guided preparation and processing of foods.
Method: local governmental and agency reporting, program survey,
Timeline: on-going
Intermediate Outcome: Residents will increase practices related to seeking out local foods, eating healthy local food options, develop skills to create viable local foods business situations, increase farmer's market participation, engage in appropriate local food processing.
Indicator: access to local food systems, increase participation in farmer's / local markets, increase participation in programming related to local food systems, nutrition education, and preparation
Method: program survey, local agency or government reporting, increase in program attendance
Timeline: on-going
Initial Outcome: Change Knowledge, Opinions, Skills, and / or aspirations in understanding of issues related to local foods, individual and market gardening, nutrition based on local food access, and farmer's markets.
Indicator: demand for program participation related to local food systems, food preparation, nutrition education, and individual sustainable gardening practices.
Method: program survey and attendance
Timeline: on-going
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Agents, NEP Program assistants, CES Publications
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Physical Activity Programs
Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance Curriculum, Get Moving Kentucky
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, CES publications, Extension Specialist
Dates: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Get Fit Fayette County
Content or Curriculum: Various Curriculums
Input, KY Cooperative Extension Agents, public and private health agencies, non profit organizations
Dates: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Kentucky Plate it Up/ Farmer's Market
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up Curriculum
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, CES publications, KDA, NEP assistants
Dates: Summer, Fall and Spring
Audience:
Project or Activity: Better Bites
Content or Curriculum: Better Bites Curriculum; Social Marketing and Policy Exploratory Pilot Study
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Specialists, Volunteers, CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: ongoing
Audience: Adults, Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Phone calls, e-mails, and office visit customer service opportunities
Content or Curriculum: Available resources through CES publications, specialists, and listed curricula
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Program Assistants, Specialists, Volunteers, CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: On-Going
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Lexington Drug Free Projects
Content or Curriculum: Health Rocks, Drug prevention
Inputs 4-H Agents, 4-H Assistants, FCS Agents, LFUCG, Police Department
Dates: ongoing
Audience: Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Cooking/Food & Nutrition
Content or curriculum: 4-H curriculum; FCS curriculum; Plate It Up recipes
Inputs: 4-H Agents,4-H assistants, volunteers
Date: day camps, after-school programs
Audience: Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking Club(s)
Content or curriculum: 4-H foods curriculum; FCS curriculum; Plate It Up recipes
Inputs: 4-H Agent, volunteers
Date: monthly club meetings and as requested
Audience: Adult and Youth
Project or Activity: SNAP-Ed/ Double dollars
Content or Curriculum: NEP curriculum, CES Publications
Inputs: EFNEP and SNAP Ed assistants, County Extension Agents
Date: On-Going
Audience: Community residents
Project or Activity: Growing Community program
Content or Curriculum: ID-128
Inputs: Volunteers, collaborating agencies, LFUCG, County agents
Date: Annually in May
Audience: Fayette county School Students
Project or Activity: Agriculture Education for Fayette County School Students.
Content or Curriculum: Teach Students about Agriculture and show where food comes from.
Inputs:Leaders, Agents, Fayette County Schools, Locust Trace School.
Date: Spring and Fall.
Audience: Community Residents & Businesses
Project: Local Foods Committee & Coordinator
Content & Curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, LFUCG, Agents, Specialist
Date: All Year
Audience: Fayette County Schools Administration and Board
Project: School Health and Wellness Policy
Content & curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, Specialist and CES curriculum
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Senior Adults
Projects: Challenges of Aging, Grandparents Raising Relatives, Next Best Years
Content and Curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, Specialists, and CES curriculum
Date: ongoing
Audience: Adults
Projects: Food and Nutrition
Content: Food for Thought, Food Preservation, Adult Cooking, Champion Food Volunteers
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Community residents
Project or Activity: Master gardener projects related to food production
Content or Curriculum: Publications
Inputs:volunteers, specialists, county agents
Date: Ongoing
Audience:Community residents
Project or Activity: Growing Community program
Content or Curriculum: ID-128
Inputs:Volunteers, collaborating agencies, LFUCG, County agents
Date: Annually in May
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Farmer's Market/Plate it Up
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up, KY Department of Ag
Inputs: Cooperative Extension Agent, specialists, KDA, Lexington Farmer's Market
Date: On-going
Audience: Adults, Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Phone calls, e-mails, and office visit customer service opportunities
Content or Curriculum: Available resources through CES publications, specialists, and listed curricula
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Program Assistants, Specialists, Volunteers, Kentucky CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: On-Going
Author: Jamie Dockery
Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture
A recent study at our own university identified several Lexington communities as low income areas where residents have little access to transportation, grocery stores, and subsequently, nutritious food. In an effort to address this, the Fayette County Extension horticulture program organized a program called Growing Community. Since 2010 our program has consisted of ongoing demonstrations and classes that arm participants with the basic knowledge to grow vegetables. A collaboration w
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes Program (Curriculum)
Diabetes-related complications can be serious, costly, and deadly. They include heart disease, stroke, kidney damage (chronic kidney disease and kidney failure), blindness, and amputations of the legs and feet. Diabetes-related complications are more likely and more severe among people whose diabetes is not well managed and those who have had diabetes longer. People with diabetes can better manage their condition and improve their health by following preventive care practices. These practices in
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
Grandparents/Relatives Stand in the GAPOver 70,000 or 7% of Kentucky children live in households headed by grandparents and/or relatives according to the AARP Foundation. Of those combined numbers, more than 30,000 children have no parent present in the home where they live. The underlying cause for this includes drug use by parents, imprisonment, illness or death of the parent. To address this issue, the Central Kentucky Grandparent Raising Relatives Coalition comprised of Fayette Co. Extension
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud Recipes for Those Who Need to Know HowPlate It Up! Kentucky Proud provides healthy, great tasting recipes using Kentucky Proud products in order to increase consumer purchase, preparation, and preservation of Kentucky grown and value-added commodities, through marketing and educational collaborations. The project is a Family and Consumer Sciences Extension driven partnership with the School of Human Environmental Sciences and the Kentucky Department of Agricultur
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Securing Financial Stability (general)
Financial Goal SettingFinancial goal setting is often considered to be one of the keys to developing financial security. Research indicates that people who set goals are more successful financially.Planning a goal vision board is a helpful way to provide clarity and focus to written financial goals. Fayette County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension taught goal setting using SMART (Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Relevant, Timed) goal components to Central KY county extension audiences tot
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
21 4H youth participated in a 4H Barbecue Cooking camp under the leadership of a UK animal sciences and food services specialist. Participants in the program had the opportunity to learn the basics of: food safety, hand washing, food temperatures, safely preparing a barbeque grill and controlling the fire on the grill. Participants also learned a basic understanding of the economy, versatility and nutritional value of chicken and its relationship to human nutrition. 4Hers also got to prepare the
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Health 4-H Core Curriculum
The 4H program continues to do 4H Health Rocks at a local middle school in the county. One of the teachers that conducts the program in her classroom now regularly incorporates Health Rocks activities in her school curriculum. She has been provided lesson plans that helps reinforce her teaching concepts. Each of her classrooms participates in 4 lessons taught by the 4H agent as well. On the next health test her students take in her classroom, one of questions on the exam asks students to list 5
Author: Elizabeth Kingsland
Major Program: Food Preparation
As the local food movement continues to grow, Fayette county residents want to know what is in their food and how it is prepared. They also want to learn techniques and how to cook from scratch for the taste or for economical reasons. The Fayette County Family and Consumer Science program presented a series of six baking programs in the first half of 2018. During each session participants discussed the science of baking (i.e. leavening, ingredients). Participants were a varied group men and wome
Author: Elizabeth Kingsland
Major Program: Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
More than twenty-five percent of adults in Fayette County lack physical activity, which contributes to 59% of adults being overweight and 26% being obese according to KY Health Facts.org. Fayette Family and Consumer Sciences has been providing opportunities for adults to be physically active at minimal or no costs for many years. Get fit Fayette county has taught and encouraged physical activity and healthy habits in several ways. The programs that have been available are Small Steps to He
Author: Elizabeth Kingsland
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
The Fayette County Extension Office is located near several larger apartment complexes that house limited resource families and seniors on fixed incomes. This audience is venerable to poor eating habits and lack of food preparation skills that can lead to obesity. To address the needs of people living and working near the Extension office the Family and Consumer Sciences and Nutrition Education Program assistants conduct a once a month class at noon entitled “Cooking the Calendar
Author: Elizabeth Kingsland
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Fayette County Family and Consumer Sciences Agents coordinate and teach a series of special interest classes with the help of volunteers, Master Clothing Volunteer, Campion Food volunteers and other community partners. These classes have been conducted for many years. Many of these special interest classes attract residents of the county that are not familiar with the services Extension offers and introduces them to opportunities to become leaders and participate in civic projects or e
