Extension
It Starts With Us
Improving Health & Well Being
Health, Safety, & Wellness
Karli Jessie, Cathy Weaver, Steve Musen
4-H Leadership Core Curriculum
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Building Healthy Coalitions
Our current state of health and well – being in the Kentucky is considered poor and current issues that are affecting Jessamine County include: obesity, diabetes, poor cardiovascular health, and cancer. The latest obesity statistics report by the Trust for America's Health ranks Kentucky number six when it comes to fattest states. Approximately 8.9 percent of Kentucky’s adult population had been diagnosed with diabetes and this number continues to increase. Health and wellness, especially preventative practices, along with safety practices help to ensure a good quality of life and help to keep health care costs low for everyone. Teaching healthy and safe practices at a young age are also a priority. This helps young people to learn how to be healthy at a young age and help Jessamine Co become a more healthy population in the future.
Also, The Centers for Disease Control found in a nationally representative survey that only 29% of high school youth participated in at least 60 minutes of physical activity on each of the seven days before the survey. Participation in physical activity decreases as we age.
Participants will increase exercise, reduce amount of fat, and increase consumption of fruit and vegetables. Individuals will increase use of safe food handling practices in addition to general safety practices. Participants will improve their overall awareness about having a healthy and well lifestyle
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.
Participants in health and safety programs will use the knowledge and skills acquired through programs offered by the Jessamine County Extension Council on a daily basis. These skills will be life changing and will allow participants to improve their general well-being.
Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Participants will become more physically active, make better health related decisions and eat a healthy variety of foods. Participants will be more safety conscious and will make decisions that will increase their safety factor.
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.
Long-Term Outcome: Extension participants will increase exercise, increase consumption of fruits and veggies and will be aware of what it means to live a healthy lifestyle. This will be measured by evaluation, change in overall health of the county. Also a decrease in dollars spent in health care in our county.
Intermediate Outcome: Participants in health and safety programs will use the knowledge and skills acquired through programs offered by the Jessamine County Extension Council on a daily basis. These skills will be life changing and will allow participants to improve their general well-being.This will be measured by surveys, testimonials, and follow up written evaluations
Initial Outcome: Participants will become more physically active, make better health related decisions and eat a healthy variety of foods. Participants will be more safety conscious and will make decisions that will increase their safety factor. These changes will be measured by written evaluations, both immediate and follow up.
The number of youth that report making healthy lifestyle choices.
• The number of youth that report not engaging in risky behavior.
• The number of youth that report feeling good about themselves.
• The number of youth that report that they know how to handle stress.
Lunch and Learn – Health Topics- throughout the year, FCS curriculum, adult audience, presented by staff
Community Health Fair - Fall, community members and extension staff, educational material provided by booth members
4-H Shooting Sports April-Sept, 4-H Certified Coaches, SS Curriculum and guidelines,
EFNEP programs (Snap- ED)Year round, FCS< AG AND 4-H Curriculum, Extension Staff
Health Homemaker Leader Training- Year Round, FCS Curriculum, Extension Staff
Health and Food Demonstrations- Year Round, FCS Curriculum, Extension Staff and Community members
Beef promotion activities at local festivals- Year round, Educational material, Ext Staff and Beef Cattle members
2nd Sunday - Fall, FCS Curr., Ext. Staff and Comm Members
LEAP – ongoing, FCS Curr, Ext Staff and volunteers
4-H In School Nutrition Lessons- November, 4-H Curr., Ext. Staff
4-H Professor Popcorn - Spring, PP Curr., Ext. Staff
Safe Food Handling-Year Round, FCS Pubs, Ext Staff
Truth and Consequences Drug Prevention Program- Spring, Ext Curr., Ext Staff and Comm. members
Ag Alumni Summer Meeting- Healthy Beef Program, Summer, Ext Pubs, Ext Staff
Workplace Wellness- Year round, in partnership with local Health Department
Cloverdashers girls running group- Healthy living for teens curriculum, spring
Author: Karli Giles
Major Program: LEAP
The Jessamine County Cooperative Extension Office partnered with Jessamine County Early Learning Village in September to teach handwashing to all kindergarteners. The purpose of this program was to teach students about handwashing as a school attendance initiative. Methods used to teach the program were a storybook, germs visuals, and hands-on handwashing activity. To evaluate the effectiveness of the handwashing program, students were asked at the end of the lesson three questions: &ldqu
Author: Karli Giles
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Research is starting to show a clear link between increased sugar consumption and poor health outcomes such as being overweight, obesity, and developing diabetes. The recommendation is that no more than 10 percent of daily calories should come from sugar. On average, almost 20 percent of the calories in a typical American adult’s diet comes from sugar and sweeteners, with the most common sources being beverages, snacks, and sweets. In addition, the arrival of several non-nutritive sweetene
Author: Karli Giles
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
The Jessamine County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent worked towards providing materials and resources to the community of Jessamine County during the coronavirus pandemic. The FCS Agent used multiple outlets to give support to the community. Those outlets include the Jessamine County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Facebook page, a weekly article in the Jessamine Journal, a biweekly e-newsletter, porch kits for youth, resource packets for the Nicholasville and Wilmore Farmer’s Ma
Author: Steven Musen
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
It has been projected in the Kentucky by the Numbers document produced by U.K.’s Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK) that by the year 2025, 18% of Jessamine County’s population will aged 65 and over. As community members age, they often loose access to fresh, healthy foods because of fixed incomes, lack of transportation and “food desserts” in low-income housing neighborhoods where many senior citizens live.The Jessamine County Senior Center
Author: Karli Giles
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
The Jessamine County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent offered a two day virtual 4-H Foods Class in conjunction with Jessamine County 4-H’s Virtual Camp. Participants picked up to-go bags from the Jessamine County Extension with recipe ingredients, SNAP-ED cooking utensils, UK Wally Cat handwashing poster, and Zoom Link to class. The FCS Agent demonstrated proper handwashing, how to read a recipe and lead participants in a virtual cook-a-long. The initial outcomes were participa
