Developing Healthy Lifestyles
Enhancing Health and Well Being of Families
Huffman, Cline,
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Home & Consumer Horticulture
The Centers for Disease Control found in a nationally representative survey that only 29% of high school youth participated in at least 60 minutes of physical activity on each of the seven days before the survey. Participation in physical activity decreases as we age.Only 13% of Hart County residents get the daily recommended number of fruits and vegetables each day. (Kyhealthfacts.org)
Youth maintain positive health habits.
• Individuals are at a lower risk for serious disease and illness.
• Individuals are at a lower risk for physical and emotional distress.
• Youth will make improvements to their health which will lead to them having a better quality of life. As a result youth will be competent, capable, contributing adults from participating in the 4-H Health programs.
- Individuals adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
- Individuals identify healthy lifestyle choices.
- Individuals understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
- Individuals aspire to have higher self-esteem.
- Individuals identify healthy ways to handle stress.
Outcome: Health and drug statistics in Hart County will improve. The number of families reporting healthy habits and lifestyle choices will increase.
Indicator: The number of youth and families adopting healthy behaviors will increase.
Method: The number of participants keeping activity logs and reporting increase in fruits and vegetables, physical activity and overall lifestyle choices.
Timeline: July 2018- June 2019
Learning Opportunities (repeat as needed):
Audience: 9th Grade Youth
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences Curriculum
Inputs: School Staff; Extension Council
Date: Fall 2018Audience: 7th Grade Youth
Project or Activity: STOP Program
Content or Curriculum: STOP Curriculum
Inputs: School Staff
Date: 2018-2019 School YearAudience: Youth
Project or Activity: Healthy Habits
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Jump Into Fitness
Inputs: Healthy Hart Coalition
Date: Spring 2019Audience: Adults and Youth
Project or Activity: Healthy Hart Coalition
Content or Curriculum: Coalition meetings provide year around ever
changing direction for program input. UK
curriculum is used for programs.
Inputs: Twenty (20) community partner members of the coalition
Date: Year around activity with meetings each two monthsAudience: 4th Grade Youth
Project or Activity: Farm Safety Day Camp
Content or Curriculum: Farm Safety Handbook; Hand Washing Lessons
Inputs: School System Staff & Family Resource Centers
Date: September 2018Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Shape Up for Spring
Content or Curriculum: Weight The Reality Series Curriculum
Inputs: General Population
Date: April 2019Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Recipe Testing and Publication
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up! Kentucky Proud
Inputs: General Population
Date: July 2018- June 2019Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Learning to Can, Freeze, and Dry Fruits and Vegetables
Content or Curriculum: Food Preservation
Inputs: Youth and Adults
Date: July 2018Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Youth Fruit and Vegetable Access
Content or Curriculum: LEAP
Inputs: Youth
Date: July 2018- June 2019Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Improving Parenting Skills
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parenting
Inputs: Adults
Date: July 2018- June 2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Farmers Market
Content or Curriculum: Famers Market
Inputs: Adults
Date: July 2018- August 2019Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Raising Awareness about Alzheimer’s
Content or Curriculum: Know the 10 Signs
Inputs: Homemakers
Date: Spring 2019Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Aging Gracefully
Content or Curriculum: Keys to Embracing Age
Inputs: Homemakers
Date: Fall 2018Audience: 7th Grade Students
Project or Activity: Positive Choices
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Health
Inputs: Youth
Date: Fall 2018
Audience: High School FMD Students
Project or Activity: Preparing Healthy Meals
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Health
Inputs: Youth
Date: Fall 2018 –Spring 2019
Author: Laura Huffman
Major Program: Health 4-H Core Curriculum
The goal of Hart County High School is to have all students career and work place ready by the time they graduate. The high school contacted the 4-H Youth Development agent to collaborate with the school on offering work readiness and skills classes for all students as well as to work with the Functional Mental Disability (FMD) Class to offer a nutrition and cooking class. The goal of the nutrition and cooking class was to teach the FMD class basic skills in preparing th
Author: Janey Cline
Major Program: Nurturing Families (general)
The Extension Agents for Family and Consumer Science Education, in eight counties of the Mammoth Cave Area that can access the Proclaim Broadcasting network, WPBM TV Channel 31 via cable, dish, digital or antenna television have partnered to take over hosting of the 30 minute, weekly Family Lifestyles television show. Fifty five episodes were taped and aired from October 16, 2017 – October 15, 2018. The eight Mammoth Cave Area Countie
Author: Janey Cline
Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)
Engaging and maintaining meaningful social activities and relationships throughout the lifespan is vital to overall to health and well-being. Engaged people are often healthier, happier, less depressed and demonstrate enhanced brain vitality (NIA, 2009; Alzheimer’s Association, 2011; Park, 2009). They also contribute to stronger families and communities.The Hart County Healthy Living exercise program began meeting in 2008 and is still very active in 2019. The instructor as well as many of
Author: Janey Cline
Major Program: Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
Hart County is a rural community located in central. In 2012, there were 1,372 farm operations on 182,385 acres. In the 2013 USDA’s Food Atlas Hart County’s free lunch eligibility was 5% above the Kentucky participate rate and nearly 10% above the national participate rate. While living in a rural community has its advantages it also presents struggles for the 7% of the population who live more than a mile away from a grocery store and do not own a car. Although the backpack program