Kenton County CES

Title:

SNAP

MAP:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Agents Involved:

Averbeck, Donahue, Kelley, Bowling, Stanton, Byrnes, Allen

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Health 4-H Core Curriculum

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Home & Consumer Horticulture

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)

Situation:

Nutrition Education Programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on growing their own produce, and practicing healthy and safe food preparation methods. Agents, paraprofessionals and volunteers are pivotal in influencing policies, systems, and environments and in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table. 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.

Long-Term Outcomes:

• Kentucky population will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by
1 or more servings per day
• Kentuckians improve food management skills and healthy eating habits
• Youth will be food secure when school is not in session
• People accessing emergency food sources will select from nutrient dense items
• Youth maintain positive health habits.
• Youth are at a lower risk for serious disease and illness.
• Youth are at a lower risk for physical and emotional distress.
• Youth are competent, capable, contributing adults as a result of their
participation in 4-H Health programs.
• Family members will eat a broader range of vegetables.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Number who:
• Access more local foods
• Redeem Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program benefit.
• Plant, harvest and preserve produce
• Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety
and healthy eating habits
Number of:
• Youth who access other food sources when not in school
• Households accessing emergency food sources
• Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include
making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling
stress

Initial Outcomes:

• Understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual
health and financial well-being
• Learn to grow, prepare and preserve food
• Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a
healthy diet
• Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food
resource management
• Learn about community support services to increase food security
• Youth identify healthy lifestyle choices.
• Youth understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
• Youth aspire to have higher self-esteem.
• Youth identify healthy ways to handle stress.
• Youth and adults reap the emotional benefits from nurturing a garden.

Evaluation:

Outcome: Kenton Countians will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day
Indicator: Citizens purchase more and increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
Method: Farmers' market observations and follow up lesson evaluations

Outcome: Kenton County citizens learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet
Indicator: Participants try new foods during CES programs or obtain at farmers' market
Method: Plate It Up evaluation form
Timeline: All year

Outcome: People accessing emergency food sources will select from nutrient dense items
Indicator: Participants try new foods during CES programs or obtain through farmers' market
Method: Plate It Up evaluation form
Timeline: All year

• The number of youth that report making healthy lifestyle choices.
• The number of youth that report not engaging in risky behavior.
• The number of youth that report feeling good about themselves.
• The number of youth that report that they know how to handle stress.

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Covington Public Schools

Project or Activity: Dairy Day

Input:Agents, Local AG Professionals

Date: March 2018, 2019, 2020

Audience: Kenton County Residents

Project or Activity:Farm Tour

Input: Agents, Volunteers

Date: Fall 2017

Audience: Youth

Project or Activity: Nutrition enrichment at City Heights

Input: SNAP-Ed

Date: January-March 2018

Audience: Youth

Project or Activity: Get Fit with 4-H School Clubs

Content or Curriculum: Get Fit with 4-H

Inputs: Agent and assistants

Date: September 2017-May 2018

Audience: 6^th District Summer Youth

Project or Activity: Summer Day Camp "Super Star Chef"

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Health

Inputs: Agent designed

Date: June & July 2017-2018

Audience:  Youth & Adult

Project or Activity:Culinary Challenge

Content or Curriculum:Culinary Challenge

Inputs:  Agent designed

Date:  2018

Audience:  Erlanger Elsmere BFF Club

Project or Activity:Healthy Living

Content:  4-H Health

Inputs:  Agent designed

Date:  2017-2018

 

Audience:
Project or Activity: Super Star Chef
Content or Curriculum: Super Star Chef

Inputs: Extension Agent, UK Nutrition Staff
Date: August 2017

Audience: General public, including SNAP participants
Project or Activity: Farmers’ Markets CES information booth
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up, FCS preparation and safety information, vegetable garden information
Inputs: Agent designed, SNAP incentives
Date: July-October, 2017, May-October 2018, 2019 

Audience: General public, including SNAP participants, various county locations
Project or Activity: Vegetable seed give-away for Earth Day and at other events
Content or Curriculum: UK gardening information, seed packets
Inputs: Agents, Master Gardener volunteers
Date: April yearly

Audience: SNAP Assistants and Kenton County Staff
Project or Activity: SNAP program collaboration
Content or Curriculum: UK SNAP
Inputs: Kenton Program Funds
Date: All year

Audience: Senior Center Nutrition Groups
Project or Activity: Nutrition education programs
Content or Curriculum: MyPlate, Plate It Up
Inputs: SNAP ed curriculum, Agent designed
Date: Monthly beginning July 2017

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Readyfests and Health Fairs
Content or Curriculum: SNAP, MyPlate, Plate It UP
Inputs: Agent designed, SNAP incentives
Date: August 2017

Audience: Life Learning Center Adults
Project or Activity: Nutrition Education for Recovering Adults
Content or Curriculum: SNAP curriculum, MYPlate 
Inputs: Agent and center staff designed
Date: Monthly beginning July 2017

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Farmers’ Market WIC voucher redemption
Content or Curriculum: UK SNAP, MyPlate, Plate It Up
Inputs: N. KY. Health Department, UK Extension
Date: July-August 2017

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Plate It Up, Kentucky Proud!
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up!
Inputs: FCS agent update
Date: All Year

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Independence Food Bank

Content or Curriculum: SNAP and Plate It Up!
Inputs: UK Curriculum
Date: Monthly

Audience: Summer Youth Day Camps
Project or Activity: Healthy Eating lessons
Content or Curriculum: MyPlate
Inputs: UK Curriculum
Date: July-August

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Nutrition news articles focusing on fruits and vegetables
Content or Curriculum: UK exclusives, nutrition publications
Inputs: FCS agent developed
Date: Weekly articles--rotate topics

Audience: SNAP families, Spanish-speaking
Project or activity: Instruction on vegetable and fruit gardening
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references & materials
Inputs: Horticulture agent
Dates: Ongoing

Audience: SNAP families, English-speaking
Project or activity: Instruction on vegetable and fruit gardening
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references & materials
Inputs: County horticulture agent
Dates: Ongoing

Audience: Youth (English- and Spanish-speaking), including SNAP family members
Project or Activity: Summer youth day camps
Content or Curriculum: UK & Extension horticulture references and materials; American Horticultural Society trainings and manuals
Inputs: County agent designed; NKU Dept. of Allied Health; SNAP-Ed staff; Community garden leaders
Dates: Summer 2017, 2018, 2019

Audience; General public, including SNAP members
Project or Activity: Vegetable and Fruit Gardening classes and demonstrations
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references and materials
Inputs: County agent, UK Extension specialists
Dates: Ongoing

Audience: Community Garden Managers, facilitators, and volunteers who work with SNAP members
Project or Activity: Vegetable and Fruit Gardening classes, demonstrations, on-site instruction
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension Horticulture references & materials
Inputs: County agents, AHS and U of L community garden materials
Dates: Ongoing