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It Starts With Us
Healthy Lifestyles
Making Healthy LIfestyles Choices
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Sebastian, Jeff Casada
Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Weight the Reality Series
Clay County, a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families make choices to improve health and wellbeing, incorporate nutritious food into their diet, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease (including diabetes, heart disease stroke, cancer)prevention. 10% of our population is 18-24 years old, 57% is 25-64 years of age and 12% of is over 65 years of age. Our medium household income is $23,445. According to 2014 statistics 43% of our county is obese with 18% of our adults being diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults don’t meet the standard activity level. Lifestyle choices impact the quality and years of life.
-Increase the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating. Increase the management of chronic disease diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Increase the management of lifestyles factures impacting overweight adults and children.
-Families practice healthy food choices to strengthen the families’ ability to build healthy eating plans.
-Families practice physical activity in homes & communities.
-Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitudes related to making healthy lifestyle choices and adult weight management and chronic disease.
-Families increase knowledge skills attitudes related to healthy foods, learn how to prepare and preserve healthy foods.
Long-Term Outcome: Increase the consumption of healthy foods and increase physical activity.
Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity, number that report eating more healthy foods, leading to improvement of quality of life.
Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Intermediate Outcome: Families practice healthy food choices to build healthy eating plans. Family practice physical activity.
Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity; number that report eating more healthy foods leading to improvement of quality of life.
Method: word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Initial Outcome: Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitude related to healthy life skill choices and weight management.
Indicator: Number that gained knowledge about eating healthy food. Number that reported understanding the benefits of spending time together in physical activity.
Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluations.
Timeline: 2016-2020
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Nourish Your Bones and Joints
Content or Curriculum: Nourish Your Bones and Joints
Inputs: Health Department, Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Diabetes Support Group
Content or Curriculum: Recipes Diabetic Shoes
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: April 2018
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Plate It Up Cooking School
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent,
Date: 3 times a year
Audience: Adults & Children
Project or Activity: Just Get Moving
Content or Curriculum: Games & Activity
Inputs: Memorial Hospital, KECOC, Healthy Clay, Daniel Boone,4-H/FCS Agents
Date: Spring 2018
Audience :Adults
Project or Activity: Weight The Reality Series Becoming Body Aware
Content or Curriculum: Weight The Reality Series Curriculum
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: February 2018
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Holiday Cooking School
Content or Curriculum: Recipes
Inputs: Wilderness Trail Area Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: November 2017
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Mediterranean Cooking, Vegetarian, Healthy Heart
Content or Curriculum: FCS publications
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Healthy Walking Healthy Life
Content or Curriculum: Walking Program
Inputs: Family & Consumer Sciences Agent
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: Middle School 7th
Project: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences
Inputs: All Agents, Community
Date: Fall October/November 2017
Audience: WTA Homemakers
Project: Leader’s Training
Content or Curriculum: Toaster Ovens
Inputs: Curriculum Toaster Ovens, FCS Agent
Date: 2018
Audience: Families
Project: Preserving Food
Content: UK publications
Inputs Agents
Date: 2017-18
Audience: Youth
Activity: Teen Cuisine
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: Youth
Activity: Health Rocks
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2017-2018 School year
Audience: Youth
Activity: Professor Popcorn
Content or Curriculum: FCS/4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2017-2018 School year
Audience: Families
Activity: Recipe of the Month
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes
Input: Plate It Up Recipes, Grocery Stores, FCS Agent
Date: All year
Audience: Children
Activity: Whats in the Dr. Bag
Content or Curriculum: Whats in the Dr. Bag
Input: FCS Agent
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: Adults, Farmers
Activity: Microprocessing
Content or Curriculum Microprocessing
Input: All Agents
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: Youth
Activity: Middle School Enrichment
Content or Curriculum: Team Building With Youth
Input: 4-H Agent, Teachers
Date: 2017-2018
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families are encouraged to make choices to improve health and well-being, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease prevention. According to 2014 statistics 43% of Clay County is obese with 18% of the adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults do not meet the standard activity level. Learning and practicing healthy choices at a young age can impact the quality and years of life. Clay County Cooperative
Author: Alissa Ackerman
Major Program: Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families are encouraged to make choices to improve health and well-being, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease prevention. According to 2014 statistics, 43% of Clay County is obese with 18% of the adults have been diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults do not meet the standard activity level. Learning and practicing healthy choices at a young age can impact the quality and years of life. Clay County Cooperativ
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
~~Truth and ConsequencesClay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, and other various illegal and prescription drugs. Seventeen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall we had over 200 marched through town. Though the drug problem has improved it is still bad. Many of our arrests for DUI are drug related rather than alcohol related. There is a need for continued substance abuse prevention and intervention i
Author: Alissa Ackerman
Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky where racial diversity is low. According to 2016 Census Bureau, Clay County’s population consists of 94.4% white, 2% Hispanic or Latino and 4.2% Black or African American. Therefore, the majority of individuals including youth, do not have a high range of opportunities to be exposed to other diverse cultures and foods. The Clay County 4-H Agent conducted a three-day summer workshop open to
Author: Jeffrey Casada
Major Program: Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Clay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, and other various illegal and prescription drugs. Seventeen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall we had over 200 marched through town. Though the drug problem has improved it is still bad. Many of our arrests for DUI are drug related rather than alcohol related. There is a need for continued substance abuse prevention and intervention in Clay County. You
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Food Preparation
About 1.7 million toaster ovens are sold in the United States each year. Twenty-seven percent of households use it only for toasting foods (Energy Star Market Industry Scoping Report: Toaster Ovens, November 2011). Today’s toaster ovens have capability beyond toasting and use one-half to one-third less energy than conventional ovens. Additionally, smaller yield recipes may be more efficiently prepared in a toaster oven. Individuals who understand the advantages of toaster ovens may find th
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
Clay County is a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families are encouraged to make choices to improve health and well-being, participate in physical activity. According to 2014 statistics 43% of Clay County is obese.The Family and Consumer Science Agent is a member of the Healthy Clay Committee and one of the original members for the ACHIEVE Grant. The committee has continued to provide leadership for health and physical activity, and community improvement through working together.Th
