Campbell County CES

Title:

Nurturing Families

MAP:

FCS - Nurturing Families

Agents Involved:

Rex, Thompson

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Nurturing Parenting

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

LEAP

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Stories, Songs, and Stretches

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. Stresses on military families are more difficult and prolonged because of the demands on military personnel to serve multiple deployments, frequently in combat zones. 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. Children who start kindergarten with delayed development and fewer assets are by far more likely to repeat grades, get tracked into lower-tier classes and drop out of high school than more advantaged children. More than half of Kentucky’s 56 judicial circuits have some form of mandated divorce education; more such education is needed.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Kentucky families are able to:

Care for the physical and mental health and well-being of each individual over the long term

Foster the optimal development of children and youth

Practice parental leadership skills

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

Embrace people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds

Reach out with empathy to people dealing with severe stress

Access community resources when needed

Become volunteers to make their community a better place to live for everyone

Intermediate Outcomes:

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.

Played and spent quality time with child 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 consequences

Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships

Accessed community agencies and resources when needed

Engaged in community outreach activities

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.

Describes child’s developmental levels relative to averages

Verbalizes realistic behavior expectations

Lists developmentally appropriate playthings

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

Evaluation:

Long-term Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be mailed to past participants.

Indicator: Documentation or testimonies will be given by the participants that will prove that behavior has changed as a result of the program.

Method: One, two, three, four, (etc.) evaluations will be given to discover behavior change.

Timeline: One, two, three, four, (etc.) year evaluations will be administered. Statistics will be studied and submitted to the Campbell County Extension by professional collaborators/agencies/services that will prove social, economic or environmental change has taken place.

Intermediate Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be sent to participants.

Indicator: A follow-up written evaluation will be mailed to each participant to determine if he/she is practicing what was learned or demonstrated at the program. Participants will answer the evaluation based on what was learned or demonstrated at the program.

Method: A three, four, or six month follow-up evaluation will be mailed out. Teachers and parents will also be asked questions to determine if children are practicing what they learned in the program.

Timeline: A three, four, or six month evaluation will be mailed to participants.

Initial Outcome: End of Program evaluations will be utilized.

Indicator: Written evaluations will be completed by each participant/student at the end of each program. Hands-on evaluations will also be used to evaluate the progress of the participants/students. Participants will answer questions about the program/subject matter that will show that he/she has learned from the class/program.

Method: Written evaluations and hands-on evaluations will be utilized.

Timeline: End of classes/programs.

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Children ages 6-8 and their parents, grandparents or guardians
Project or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods with Mommy and Me
 Content or Curriculum: Family Mealtime

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Horticulture Agent and Assistant

Date: Every year – 4^th Thursday of every month February – September

Audience: Court mandated teens and their parents, grandparents or guardians
Project or Activity: In the Driver’s Seat program
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parents

Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Highland Heights Police Department and Campbell County District Court, Judge Karen Thomas

Date: 4 times a year (May, September, December, February) 

Audience: Pre-schoolers
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K.
Inputs: Community and faith-based organizations, daycares and schools
 Date: monthly 

Audience: Pre-schoolers
Project or Activity: Stories, Songs, and Stretches
Content or Curriculum: Stories, Songs, and Stretches curriculum, Leap books, other physical activity kid books

Inputs: Campbell County FCS Extension Agent
Date: Monthly June, July, and August

Audience: Hosea House Soup Kitchen

Project or Activity: Nurturing Families at Hosea House
Content or Curriculum: Home Is Where the Health Is, Nurturing Parents, Blue to You, Grandparents and Grandchildren Together
Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Hosea House

Date: Hosea House: Every 4^th Monday of every month Northern Kentucky Community 

Action/Faith Pharmacy: Every 4^th Wednesday of every month 

Audience: Pre-schoolers

Project or Activity: Flowerbuds

Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K., UK publications in FCS and Horticulture

Inputs: Campbell County Extension Horticulture and FCS areas

 Date: Monthly