Extension
It Starts With Us
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles
Kelly Woods, Chris Duncan, Traci Missun
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Food Preservation
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Food Preparation
Situations have been identified through County Extension Council, program councils and community issues activities and feedback. Extension Council reviewed and prioritized several top county issues that Extension can address through programs: Family Development, Cultivating Family Living, Character Education and Self Reliance Skills.
There has been a substantial increase in non-farm residents wanting to learn how to grow, cook and preserve their own food over the last several years.
Healthy Lifestyles programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; help communities to decrease hunger; and teach participants about healthy and safe food production and preparation and proper nutrition.
Moderate physical activity can reduce the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, stress and high blood pressure.
Participants will increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables and encourage family meal preparation.
Participants will practice food safety principles while preparing and handling food. Participants will use nutrition skills learned to make good buying and eating decisions. Youth will practice good mealtime manners and personal manners. Participants will use gardening skills to grow their own vegetables.
Participants will discover the MyPlate recommendations while learning to read recipes for meal preparation. Participants will also learn to measure recipe ingredients properly. Participants will understand the importance of fruits and vegetables in diets and nutrition needs for diabetics. Participants will indicate understanding of how to grow their own vegetables.
Long-term Outcome: Participants will increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables and encourage family meal preparation.
Indicator: Number of participants reporting.
Method: Survey sent to participants
Timeline: 2018-2019 program year.
Intermediate Outcome: Participants will practice food safety principles while preparing and handling food. Participants will use nutrition skills learned to make good buying and eating decisions. Youth will practice good mealtime manners and personal manners. Participants will use gardening skills to grow their own vegetables.
Indicator: Number of participants reporting these.
Method: Observations and survey
Timeline: 2018- 2019 program year
Initial Outcome: Participants will discover the MyPlate recommendations while learning to read recipes for meal preparation. Participants will also learn to measure recipe ingredients properly. Participants will understand the importance of fruits and vegetables in diets and nutrition needs for diabetics. Participants will indicate understanding of how to grow their own vegetables.
Indicator: Participants reporting change
Method: Pre and Post test; observations; surveys
Timeline: 2018-2019 program year
Activity: Kids Cooking Camp
Audience: Youth ages 9-13
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Foods Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Council, FCS Staff and EFNEP
Date: June 2019
Activity: Tweens Cooking Clubs
Audience: Middle School students
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Food Curriculum and EFNEP Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Staff, School Staff,
Date: All School Year
Activity: Character Counts
Audience: 5th grade students
Content or Curriculum: Character Counts!
Inputs: Character Counts! Curriculum
Date: Monthly- School Year 2018-2019
Audience: County Residents
Project or Activity: Food Preservation Classes
Content or Curriculum: UK Food Preservation Curriculum
Inputs: Oldham Co. FCS Agent
Date: June - September 2018
Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource Families - High Point Mission
Project or Activity: Cooking and Nutrition Classes
Content or Curriculum: NEP Calendar Recipes, UK Food & Nutrition Publication
Inputs: FCS Agent and EFNEP Assistant
Date: Selected Mondays
Audience: Oldham County Residents
Project or Activity: Cooking Classes on Oldham County TV
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Inputs: FCS Agent, Fiscal Court Media Specialist
Date: Summer and Fall 2019
Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource Families
Project or Activity: Cooking Demonstrations and Nutrition Tips at Highpoint Mission (Food Bank)
Content or Curriculum: NEP Calendar Recipes, UK Food & Nutrition Publication
Inputs: FCS Agent and EFNEP Assistant
Date: Selected Mondays in 2018-2019
Audience: Oldham County Limited Resource and Limited English Families
Project or Activity: Gardening Classes; individual gardening advice; hands-on planting activities at Highpoint Mission (Food Pantry)
Content or Curriculum: UK Extension Gardening Curriculum
Inputs: Agriculture Agent and Horticulture Assistant; possibly Spanish Translator
Date: 2018-2019
Audience: Extension Homemakers and General Public
Project or Activity: Come Sew with Us
Content or Activity: Projects selected by Master Clothing Volunteers
Inputs: FCS Agent and Master Clothing Volunteers
Date: Monthly, Sept. 2018 - April 2019
Audience: Extension Homemakers and General Public
Project or Activity: Baking for 1 or 2
Content or Curriculum: Approved UK FCS materials
Inputs: Louisville Area FCS Agents
Date: March 2019
Audience: Extension Homemakers
Project or Activity: Stroke Awareness
Content or Curriculum: UK approved materials and materials from the Stroke foundation
Inputs: Louisville Area FCS Agents
Date: September 2018
Author: Christine Duncan
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Physical activity is vital to good health. One of the easiest activities is walking. The Oldham County FCS Agent and members of the Healthy Oldham County Coalition collaborated with the KY Coalition for Healthy Communities to organize a district Challenge Walk to encourage residents to be more physically active. Six Louisville Area counties participated. Participants were ask to count their steps using pedometers or other step counting devices for one hour. Oldham County
Author: Christine Duncan
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Still Room for ImprovementOldham County has received the honor to be recognized as the healthiest in the State of Kentucky. Regardless of this award we still have 28 % obesity for the general population and an even higher rate for minorities. To address this issue the Family and Consumer Science agent and the EFNEP assistant offer Healthy Cooking and Nutrition classes. After one of the seven session classes, one participant was so inspired that she wanted to take the informatio
