Health and WellnessPlan of Work

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Calloway County CES

Title:
Health and Wellness
MAP:
Consumer Education and Health Wellness
Agents Involved:
K, Mackey,
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Fit Blue/Get Moving KY
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Faithful Families
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
4-H Leadership Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
4-H Communications and Expressive Arts Core Curriculum
Situation:

Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Co-habiting, same-sex, divorced, widowed and single households are the new majority. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In 2009, 26 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 48th in the nation. More than half of Kentucky’s 56 judicial circuits have some form of mandated divorce education; more such education is needed.

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 healthy and safe food preparation methods. Agents, paraprofessionals and volunteers are pivotal in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Build personal strengths and self-control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making.

•Foster the optimal development of children and youth


•Practice parental leadership skills


•Access community resources when needed

•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

Intermediate Outcomes:

•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.


•Played with child daily

•Identified realistic expectations for child’s tasks


•Reported using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to misbehavior, and setting and enforcing logical consequences


•Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships


•Accessed community agencies when needed


Number who:

•Access more local foods


•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

Initial Outcomes:

Commits to set family rules regarding eating together, limiting screen time, active play and exercise, set routines

•Intends to manage stress; make time for self; listen, talk, bond with family members; read with child daily; teach responsibility in use of money, time, etc.

•Verbalizes realistic behavior expectations

•Discusses discipline vs. punishment, and preventive and positive discipline techniques

•Commits to using logical consequences for misbehavior


•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

Evaluation:

Long-Term Outcome: Practice parental leadership skills

Indicator: Number of individuals reporting changes in knowledge, opinions, skill, or aspirations related to parenting or personal relationships.

Method: End of session survey

Timeline: End of each six series parenting class


Intermediate Outcome: Number who apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits

Indicator: Based on the total number of families/caregivers reached with the number that reported supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they produce/preserve.

Method: NEERS Reports, Gardening & Food Preservation Survey, End of Session Survey

Timeline: Gardening Seasons


Initial Outcome: Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding healthy lifestyle choices

Indicator: Number of individuals who experience a change in knowledge, opinions, skills, or aspirations regarding the safe storage, handling, or preparation of food (safe preservation techniques, hand washing, following time and temperature guidelines).

Method: NEERS Reports, End of session survey

Timeline: All year data collection

Learning Opportunities:

Audience:Diverse parents and other adults (married couples, single, separated or divorced, foster, adoptive, step-parents, very young parents, fathers, relatives, military)

Project or Activity: Parenting Classes

Content or Curriculum: Active Parenting Now Curriculum, Active Parenting of Teens

Inputs:•FCS Agent, Community partners, i.e., Family Resource & Youth Services Centers (FRYSCs), social services agencies, faith communities, businesses, Head Start and community volunteers

•Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents, program assistants, specialists and volunteers

Date: Series of classes are offered at least 3 times a year


Audience: Elementary Youth

Project or Activity:School Gardens, Environmental Clubs, Farm to School in classroom

Content or Curriculum: Junior Master Gardener, Ky Farm to School, Literacy, Easting & Activity for Primary Youth Health (LEAP)

Inputs:•SNAP-ed Assistant, Calloway FCS Agent, specialists and school administration and teachers at North and East Elementary schools

•Kentucky CES publications and resources

Date: Summers and August-April of each school year


Audience:Limited resource individuals and families, Families with children, Senior Citizens

Project or Activity:Food Preparation Programs, Food Preservation Programs

Organwise, UK CES Nutrition Education Program

Content or Curriculum: NEP, Organwise, UK CES Food Preservation Publications

Inputs:•Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (CES) agents, SNAP-ed program assistant, specialists and volunteers

•Kentucky CES publications and resources

•eXtension resources

Date: Gardening Seasons, School Years, All Year


Audience:Head Start, Daycare, Preschool, and Elementary students

Project or Activity: LEAP

Content or Curriculum: LEAP, NEP

Inputs:•SNAP-ed Assistant, LEAP Leaders (volunteers), School and daycare teachers and administration

•Kentucky CES publications and resources

Date: Each school year

*Nutrition programs will be presented to youth and adults by the 4-H agent, FCS agent and SNAP-ed assistant. Each program will emphasize the My Plate and the importance of eating a healthy diet to prevent illnesses and obesity.

*Presentations included in these experiences are: Kids in the Kitchen, 4-H foods projects, school programs (subjects to be determined) and NEP.

*Nutrition and Food Safety information will be provided regularly in newsletters and news articles.

*Nutritional Education Programs will be presented to low income families and others by agents in cooperation with Head Start, the Family Resource Centers and Senior Citizens. Nutrition information presented monthly to Needline recipients.

*Nutritional programs such as Kentucky Hot Browns, Super Star Chef, Omelets, Bread-in-a-Bag, Fruit and Cheese Kabobs, and Muffins in a Hurry will be presented to 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students by the 4-H agent and trained volunteers as requested.

*Programs will be presented periodically to youth K-12, as well as preschoolers, on food safety and hand washing by the 4-H agent and SNAP-ed assistant.

*Nutritional snacks lessons will be available for school enrichment lessons, as well as after-school programs, and pre-school programs.

*The 4-H Foods and Breads Projects will be taught in after school project meetings to interested youth. Nutritional recipes will be shared, as well as nutrition information.

*The Fast Food booklets will be shared with classrooms studying nutrition.

*4-H Food-A-Rama will occur in July with the assistance of the Calloway County Homemakers and the 4-H Council. Educational events will occur for the youth while their foods are being judged. Then the audience and the youth will eat the food prepared by the youth and awards will be given to all participants. A cookbook of recipes will be put together after the event by volunteer leaders.

* Emphasis on Healthy Snacks will be presented to 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th grade youth by 4-H agent or trained volunteers in school enrichment programs and or after school programs.

*4-H agent and 4-H volunteers serve as speakers at Youth Safety Day in November, February and May. The event is for 8th and 10th graders of schools. Agent and volunteers focuses on food safety and sports safety and fitness and more.


*Collaboration to meet community needs in this area is underway and efforts are making progress.

*Utilize volunteers to do lessons in schools

*Work with university volunteers to teach nutrition education.

*Summer In Park Feeding Program and Educational activities for the parenting classes.


Audience:

Individuals and families

Low-income individuals

Current and potential program users

Key stakeholders

Health professionals

Child care providers

Minority groups

Students


Activity: Health and Nutrition classes

Content or Curriculum: SNAP-Ed,Family and Consumer Science materials and Plate it Up materials

Date: 2019


Activity: LEAP

Content or curriculum: Literacy, Eating and Physical Activity for Preschoolers (LEAP)

Date: 2018-2020-During school years


Activity: Practice and Promotion of Physical Activity

Content or curriculum: Fall Prevention, Stand Up to Falling

Date: Ongoing


Activity: Reduce Chronic Disease Risk and Debilitation

Content or curriculum: Taking Control of Your Diabetes Curriculum, Ovarian Cancer Screening, Gardening Promotion

Date: Summer 2019/Spring 2020


Inputs:

Collaboration with Murray Calloway County Hospital on a Diabetes Initiatives & Diabetes Support Group.

Sponsorship Program Support and Council Support

University Resources and Specialist Support





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