Extension
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Fostering Healthy Communities and Families
Fostering Healthy Communities and Families
Amanda Sears, Brandon Sears, Lisa Adams, Scott Darst, Gina Noe
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
Local Food Systems
Sixty percent of respondents to the Madison County Health and Safety Survey identified healthy behaviors and lifestyles as the most important need for creating a healthy Madison County. Likewise, obesity and lack of physical activity were recognized as the 2nd greatest health problem. And, school health education was cited as one of the top five most needed health services in our county. (Madison County, KY Health and Safety Survey, 2015)
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Youth and adult Extension programming which encourages healthy lifestyles and behavior and promotes safe practices may lead to healthier individuals, families and communities. (JOE, September 2014)
Youth participants will maintain positive health habits, lower their risk for serious disease and illness, and will lower their risk for physical and emotional distress. Youth will also develop into competent, capable, contributing adults as their important developmental asset needs are met through their participation in 4-H.
Youth will learn safe and responsible use of firearms and archery equipment. In doing so, youth will lower the risk of injury as well as increase their knowledge of handling a firearm in several different disciplines.
Madison County Residents will have increased awareness of our local food economy, practice physical activity and healthy eating, increase their skills and knowledge in food preparation, and increase their average fruit and vegetable consumption.
Families are able to practice parental leadership skills, build personal strengths, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making, access community resources and improve quality of life.
Youth will have increased adoption and mastery of healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Youth will master skills necessary in selecting and preparing healthy and nutritious foods and understand the decision-making process.
Youth will have an increase in developing life skills centered on shooting sports. Youth will experience a sense of achievement therefore increasing the child’s self-esteem.
Residents increase amount of local food purchases, practice healthy food choices, build healthy eating plans and patterns, and are physically active.
Parents and Grandparents increase communication and enhance relationships and social support, reduce stress levels, make wiser decisions about money and time management, and use preventive and positive discipline techniques.
Youth will identify healthy and safe lifestyle choices, understand risky behaviors and their consequences, aspire to have higher self-esteem, and identify healthy ways to handle stress.
Youth will identify healthy food and drinks and understand the risk of making unhealthy choices, and the benefits of making healthy selections.
Participants will change their awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding: Healthy lifestyle choices, Adult weight management, Healthy aging, Aware of importance of daily physical activity, Reduction of chronic disease, Risk of falling, Healthy lifespan behaviors, Empathy, and Age-related family issues such as dementia, failing health, and end-of-life concerns.
Parents will learn about community support services, hold realistic behavior expectations, understand discipline vs. punishment, and practice stress management techniques.
Residents will know where the farmer's markets are located, understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual health and financial well-being, and begin to grow, prepare, and preserve food. Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management. Participants will also learn about community support services to increase food security.
Outcome: Youth will have increased adoption and mastery of healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Indicator: Percentage of youth participants who can identify where germs are located, acknowledge that some germs can make people sick, and who can describe times in the day when hand washing is needed.
Method: 4-H Hand washing Survey
Timeline:Soon after the conclusion of the program.
Outcome: Youth will have increased adoption and mastery of healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
Indicator: Percentage of youth participants who can identify healthy behaviors, who report avoidance of risky behaviors, and identify stress in themselves and others.
Method: 4-H Common Measures Survey: Health
Timeline: Soon after the conclusion of the program.
Outcome: Youth will have an increase in developing life skills centered on shooting sports. Youth will experience a sense of achievement therefore increasing the child’s self-esteem.
Indicator: Percentage of youth who increase in their individual scores.
Method: Score sheets and records
Timeline: Annually
Outcome: Participants make healthy lifestyle choices including exercising, drinking adequate water, consuming fruits and vegetables and planning meals.
Indicator: Number of participants who report achieving outcomes.
Method: Small Steps to Health and Wealth on-line challenge
Timeline: Conclusion of Challenge
Outcome:Residents will know where the farmer's markets are located, understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual health and financial well-being, and begin to grow, prepare, and preserve food. Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management. Participants will also learn about community support services to increase food security.
Indicator:Percentage of farmers market vendors who experience an increase in sales based on Extension programming efforts.
Method: Vendor surveys
Timeline:End of growing season on an annual basis
Audience: Youth ages 9-18
Project or Activity: Madison County 4-H Shooting Sports
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Shooting Sports program
Inputs:
Date: Annually
Audience: Youth ages 5-18
Project or Activity: 4-H Nutrition workshops
Content or Curriculum: Exploring My Plate with Professor Popcorn
Inputs: 4-H Agent time, volunteer time, funding, curriculum, equipment, meeting
space
Date: Year Round
Audience: Extension Homemakers and public
Activity: Small Steps to Health and Wealth Online challenge
Content: Small Steps to Health and Wealth challenge
Input: Challenge and daily tips, agent and specialist time, incentives, newspaper articles and newsletter, social media, 2nd Sunday prize
Date: Fall
Audience: Nutrition Education program clientele
Activity: classes and promotions
Content: NEP curriculum
Inputs: NEP resources and incentives, assistant and agent time and travel
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Parents and Grandparents
Activity: Grandparents as Parents group and conference, parenting classes.
Content: Parenting curriculum
Inputs: Speakers time, supplies and samples, assistant and agent time and travel.
Date: year round
Audience: Extension Homemakers
Activity: Extension Homemaker educational activities
Content: FCS curriculum, volunteer knowledge
Inputs: FCS resources, volunteer hours, supplies, staff time and travel, community resources
Date: year round
Audience: General public
Activity: Health Wellness Activity
Content: Physical Activity and nutrition guidelines
Inputs: Fiscal Court Support, supplies, volunteer time, staff time and travel, publicity and prep work
Date: Fall
Audience: Madison County Residents
Activity: Homemaker leader Lessons
Content: Leader Lesson Curriculum
Inputs: Leader Lesson Curriculum, Area agents time and travel, newspaper articles, volunteer time, samples
Date: Fall through Spring, monthly
Audience: Extension Homemakers and public
Project or Activity: Local Foods Awareness
Content or Curriculum: maintain list of local growers and products
Inputs: County office staff and agents, farmer’s market vendors, Horticulture and Agriculture Agents
Date: Fall, Annually
Audience: Madison County Residents
Audience: Farmer's Market Promotion events and articles
Content: per agent, UK materials
Inputs: County Office Staff and Agents
Date: spring, summer, fall, annually
Author: Gina Noe
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
It is hard to transition from high school to college, especially when you are on your own for the first time. The Eastern Kentucky University Upward Bound program invites students whopotentially will be the first in their families to attend college, to spend the summer on campus preparing for their college experience.For the fifth year, the Madison County Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Science staff was asked to teach basic cooking skills to these students. The Family and C
Author: Gina Noe
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Because of tightening budgets and dwindling resources, Madison County Extension Agents have been searching for ways to do more collaborative programming to increase efficiency and understanding of all Extension has to offer. It is difficult to come up with ideas that cover all program areas, but this fall we hit upon Pumpkin Palooza. All agents and assistants were able to market the program to their clientele and participated in program planning.The program included samples of Plate-i
