Extension
It Starts With Us
Wellness Education
Nurturing Healthy Families
Carter. Denniston, Tackett, Wilson
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
Food Preparation
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.
* 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.
*Individuals (grandparent or relative) reporting improved personal knowledge (such as enhanced knowledge of the various roles and levels of responsibility that grandparents and relatives play within their families; knowledge of a child’s developmental levels and developmentally appropriate playthings or activities)
*Individuals (grandparent or relative) reporting improved personal skills (such as effective strategies for raising a grandchild or a relative)
*Individuals who accessed a community club or individual members who could be supportive to grandparents or relatives raising children full-time
*Individuals who extended any type of support to another grandparent or relative raising a child
*Individuals who accessed community resources to find assistance when needed
* Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
The number of people who:
*Set and used family rules, routines and limited screen time
*Ate family meals four or more times a week
*Reduced stress levels, made time for selves, and/or made wise decisions about money, time, etc.
*Spent quality family time daily
*Reported child’s developmental progress over time
*Identified realistic expectations for child’s tasks
*Reported using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to misbehavior, and setting and enforcing logical and consistent consequences
*Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
*Accessed community agencies and resources when needed
*Engaged in community outreach activities
* 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.
*Commits to set family rules
*Intends to manage stress; make time for self; listen, talk, bond with family members; teach responsibility in use of money, time, etc.
*Describes child’s developmental levels relative to averages
*Verbalizes realistic behavior expectations
*Identifies developmentally appropriate activities
*Discusses discipline vs. punishment, and preventive and positive discipline techniques
*Commits to using logical consequences for misbehavior
*Intends to contact community agencies for assistance
*Intends to participate in volunteer activities
Initial Outcome: Youth Make Healthier choices
Indicator: The number of youth that report making healthy lifestyle choices.
Method: written and verbal surveys
Timeline: April
Intermediate Outcome: • 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
Indicator: Youth reporting they feel more in control of their decisions and emotions
Method: written and verbal surveys
Timeline: yearly
Long-term Outcome:
Indicator: Number of individuals(grandparent or relative) reporting improved personal knowledge (such as enhanced knowledge of the various role and levels of responsibility that grandparents and relatives play witin their families; knowledge of a child's developmental levels and developmentaly appropriate activities)
Method: Sessions at Relatives As Parents Support Group Meetings
Timeline: Ongoing - Yearly
Audience: Relatives actively involved in raising children
Project or Activity: Start a a support program RAP for relatives as parents
Content or Curriculum: Grandparens and Granchildren Together
Inputs: *Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents, program assistants, specialists and volunteers.
*Kentucky CES publications & resources
*Community partners 1)Paris FRYSC & Bourbon County FRYSC's, health department, mental health professionals, social services, public library,faith communities and community volunteers
*KEHA
*Extension resources from other states
*eXtension resources
*Early Care & Education child Care Training
Date: Fall 2017 and ongoing
Audience: All 5th Grade Students in Bourbon County
Project or Activity: Recipe for Life
Content or Curriculum: State Curriculum - Recipe for Life
Inputs: Agent, Homemaker Volunteers, SNAP funds
Date: September 2017
Audience: Munch Mobile Participants (Summer Feeding program18 and under)
Project or Activity: Present short nutritional lessons at four stops
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up
Inputs: Agent, incentives (color sheets,crayons and flyers,
Date: May 2017 - July 2017 and May 2018 - July 2018
Audience: High School Age
Activity: Truth and Consequences Drug Education Program
Content or Curriculum: State curriculum
Date: 2018
Audience: 5-8 year olds
Activity: 4-H Cloverbuds
Content or Curriculum: State Curriculum
Inputs: Agents, state staff, community resources
Date: Year round
Audience: Community Youth
Activity: Health Fairs and Healthy Kids Day
Content or Curriculum: HEEL information, UK Health Materials
Inputs: agents, YMCA, state staff support, community support
Date: year round
Audience: 4th and 5th Grade Students
Activity: Healthy Snack Choices School Enrichment
Content or Curriculum: Nutrition Curriculum
Inputs: agents
Date: March
Audience: 4th & 5th Grade Students
Activity:4-H Foods Workshops
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Core Curriculum
Inputs: agents
Date: year round
Audience: Youth
Activity:4-H Shooting Sports Education Club
Content or Curriculum: Shooting Sports Curriculum and KY Hunter Ed
Inputs: agents, state shooting sports, KY Hunter Ed
Date: year round
Audience: 4th Grade Students
Activity: County Wide 4th grade Safety Day
Content or Curriculum: various safety presentations
Date: April 2018
Author: Karen Denniston
Major Program: Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
According to Kinship Families Coalition of Kentucky, 6% of children in the Commonwalth are being raised by a grandparent or other relative. This is one of the highest in the nation. The Bourbon County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences partnered with the Bourbon County and Paris Independent Schools Family Resource Coordinators to develop a monthly support meeting for relatives as parents (RAP). The interest in the development of this group was based on the increasing numbers of pho
