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It Starts With Us
Healthy Lifestyles
Making Healthy LIfestyles Choices
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Ackerman, Jeff Casada
Fit Blue/Get Moving KY
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
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: Diabetes Support Group
Content or Curriculum: Diabetic Shoes
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: Quarterly 2019-2020
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 2020
Audience : Families
Project or Activity: Cook Together, Eat Together
Content or Curriculum: Cook Together, Eat Together
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent/Agencies
Date: March 2020
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Holiday Cooking School
Content or Curriculum: Recipes
Inputs: Wilderness Trail Area Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: November 2019
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Mediterranean Diet
Content or Curriculum: Mediterranean Diet
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Women & MenProject or Activity: DASH Diet
Content or Curriculum: FCS publications Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Working Women
Project or Activity: One Pot Meals
Content or Curriculum: Publication
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Agent
Date: 2019-20
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Fit Blue KY
Content or Curriculum: Fit Blue Curriculum
Inputs: Family & Consumer Science Speaker
Date: Fall 2019
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Weigh 2 Go
Content or Curriculum: Weigh 2 Go
Inputs: Agent, Curriculum
Date: Winter 2019-2020
Audience: Families
Project or Activity: Healthy Walking Healthy Life
Content or Curriculum: Walking Program
Inputs: Family & Consumer Sciences Agent
Date: Spring 2020Audience: Middle School 7th
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences
Inputs: All Agents, Community
Date: December 2019
Audience: WTA Homemakers
Project or Activity: Leader’s Training
Content or Curriculum: Oops A Tinkle!
Inputs: Curriculum, FCS Agent
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: FamiliesProject or Activity: Preserving Food
Content: UK publications
Inputs Agents
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Chef’s in Training
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Health Rocks
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2019-2020 School year
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Professor Popcorn
Content or Curriculum: FCS/4-H Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: 2019-2020 School year
Audience: Families
Activity: Recipe of the Month
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Recipes/Calendar Cooking
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: 2019-2020
Audience: Youth
Activity: Middle School Enrichment
Content or Curriculum: Team Building With Youth
Input: 4-H Agent, Teachers
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Youth
Activity: Manners for Real World
Content or curriculum: Manners for Real World
Input: 4-H agent, teachers
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: Youth
Activity: Hygiene 101
Content or curriculum: Staying Healthy – National 4-H Curriculum
Input: 4-H agent, teachers
Date: 2019-2020
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Diabetes CoalitionThe incidence of diabetes in KY has doubled from 2000 to 2017, it increased to 12.9%. The prevalence of diabetes in the Cumberland Valley Region is 15.8 % and many are living with diabetes and don’t know they have it.The Family and Consumer Science Agent was asked to participate in a grant to form a Diabetes Coalition in Clay County. Each county will receive 10,000.00 to form the coalition and sponsor programs for diabetics or pre diabetic individuals.The Clay Count
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
According to state health data, Clay County has a high prevalence of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity. Research shows that a healthy diet reducing fat, sodium, and sugar lowers the risk of developing diabetes, decreases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure and may protect from some cancers. To address these concerns Family and Consumer Science Agents in the Wilderness Trail Area organized and conducted a Wilderness Trail Area Holiday Cooking School focused on mod
Author: Alissa Ackerman
Major Program: 4-H Family and Consumer Science Core Curriculum
Clay County is a rural area located in eastern Kentucky and accessing fresh, nutritious foods can be a challenge for many families. According to the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health, “Kentucky ranks 48 in overall prevalence with 37.1% of children considered either overweight or obese.” In order to help with this concerning challenge and council members assessing the needs of the county, the 4-H Agent implemented a 4-H Chefs in Training. The goal of the cooking clu
Author: Alissa Ackerman
Major Program: 4-H Health Core Curriculum
According to the Center for Disease Control, hand-washing can prevent the spread of 1 in 5 flu, cold as well as numerous other infections. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many local communities and schools were concerned for the safety and health of their students and families. A local school requested a hygiene program to provide students with skills needed during this uncertain time. By collaborating with the local hospital, Family Youth Resource Centers and 4-H Teen Club, the 4-H Agent im
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)
Clay County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent taught Healthy Bladder Habits as a leaders training to Wilderness Trail Area leaders, total of 11 participants. Research suggests that 50% of women will experience urinary incontinence (UI) at some point in their lifetime and half of women experiencing UI do not discuss it condition with their physician. After 4 months a follow up evaluation was completed with these results 55% stated they gained knowledge on Pelvic floor and urinary incon
Author: Jeffrey Casada
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Truth and Consequences - Clay County Kentucky has an ongoing problem with drugs, methamphetamine, oxycodone, opioids and other various illegal and prescription drugs. Nineteen years ago our county hosted a March on Drugs; on a rainy day in the Fall we had over 200 march through town. 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 only have to read the
Author: Lora Howard
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
The COVID 19 virus changed the way programming was offered to clients in Clay County by the Family and Consumer Science Program. The Family and Consumer Science Agent did 14Facebook Live videos on a variety of topics to provide educational information to the public. Publications related to some of the videos where provided in our public access vestibule for clients to pick up for additional information.Facebook Lives reached many more viewers than traditional programs ever had.
