Nutrition Education and Physical ActivityPlan of Work

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Warren County CES

Title:
Nutrition Education and Physical Activity
MAP:
Building Strong Families
Agents Involved:
Julie Brown, Joanna Coles, Janet Turley & Kristin Hildabrand
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Nurturing Families (general)
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Situation:
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and 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 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. The Centers for Disease Control stated that only 29% of high school youth participated in at 60 minutes of physical activity a week. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans.
Long-Term Outcomes:
• 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.
• A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly
• Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily
• Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating
Intermediate Outcomes:
• Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
• Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals’ ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns.
• Maintain appropriate calorie balance during each stage of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, pregnancy and breastfeeding and older age
• Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors
Initial Outcomes:
• 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.
• Healthy Lifestyle Choices
• Adult Weight Management
• Practice and Promotion of Daily Physical Activity
Evaluation:
Initial Outcome: Increase knowledge on healthy eating and physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Increase in consumption in healthy food
Method: Evaluation, Survey, Word of Mouth
Timeline: July, 2016-June, 2017

Intermediate Outcomes: Families/Youth decrease their weight and increasing their amount of physical activity and have an increase self esteem
Indicator: Individuals reporting weight loss and activity logs and increase of number of youth adopting healthy behaviors
Method: Survey and word of mouth
Timeline: July 2016-June 2020


Long-term Outcomes: Youth and Adults are at a lower risk serious disease and illness
Indicator: Number of participants reporting positive changes in healthy due to healthier eating and physical activity levels
Method: Survey, word of mouth, observation, news articles, pre and post evaluations
Timeline: On going
Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Majority Free and Reduced Lunch Schools

Project or Activity:

Content or Curriculum: Gardening for children, nutrition, and producer information

Inputs: Hands on visuals, recipe demonstrations

Date: Throughout the year


Audience: Families

Project or Activity: Edible Kentucky

Content or Curriculum: Raised Bed Gardening and Food Preservation

Inputs: Raised Beds, Visuals, recipe demonstrations, materials

Date: Summer 2017


Audience:

Project or Activity: Housing Authority

Content or Curriculum: Not sure yet

Inputs:

Date:


Audience: Youth

Project or Activity: Nutrition/Physical Activity Education

Content or Curriculum: Professor Popcorn, Nutrition Curriculum, Spark, WIN

Inputs: Agent’s Time, materials, handouts, food samples

Date: July 2017 – June 2018


Audience: Low income senior citizens, low income adults, adults and school aged youth

Project or Activity: Plate It Up

Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up featured program

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, Committee Meetings, facilities

Date: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017


Audience: Low income senior citizens, low income adults

Project or Activity: Beef Month Promotion

Content or Curriculum: KY Beef Council

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, facilities, materials, KY Beef Council,

WBKO

Date: Spring 2018


Audience: Low income senior citizens, low income adults, adults and school aged youth

Project or Activity: Dairy Month Promotion

Content or Curriculum: Dairy Nutrition

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, facilities, materials, WBKO

Date: Summer 2018


Audience: Low income senior citizens, low income adults, adults and school aged youth

Project or Activity: Food Stamp Education

Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up, KY Proud, Nutrition Education Curriculum,

Professor Popcorn

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, materials

Date: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer


Audience: Parents & Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Foster/Adoptive Parents,

Project or Activity: Family Meal Time

Content or Curriculum: Healthy Meals, Mass Media

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Program Assistant’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time

Date: Spring 2016


Audience: Parents & Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Foster/Adoptive Parents,

Families

Project or Activity: Keys to Great Parenting, Mass Media

Content or Curriculum: Skill Builder, Give to You

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, local agencies & non-profits, KEHA

Date: Summer 2017


Audience: Families, Limited Resource Families

Project or Activity: Edible KY

Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up, Farmers Markets, Super Star Chef

Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, farmers market vendors, mass media

Date: Summer 2016

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