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Health, Nutrition and Development
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Cowles, Saylor
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes Program (Curriculum)
Family Mealtime (Curriculum)
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Health is a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. Obese individuals are at risk for many chronic health conditions with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers being included. The goal of making healthy lifestyle choices is to reverse these trends by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote better health and wellness and achieve and enjoy a higher level of health.
Increased quality of life for individuals with diabetes. Individuals will continue to take steps to manage their diabetes. Decreased number of individuals with diabetes related complications. Decrease in number of obesity.
Individuals will increase their readiness to manage their diabetes. Incorporate healthy food choices and ability to build a healthy eating plan.
Increase awareness of diabetes and problems faced with not managing the disease. Develop skills to improve self-management. Increase knowledge needed regarding obesity and reduction of chronic disease.
Initial Outcome: Increase knowledge of ways to reduce obesity
Indicator: Better eating habits
Method: Questionnaire
Timeline: Before and after program January 2018
Intermediate Outcome: Increase healthy food choices
Indicator: Diet change to improve health
Method: Questionnaire - Pre/Post
Timeline: May-June 2018
Long-term Outcome: Individuals will continue to take the steps to manage their diabetes
Indicator: Decrease in number of individuals with complications
Method: Survey, Pre/post test
Timeline: Beginning and end of program July 2017 - June 2018
Audience: Individuals with Pre Diabetes and Diabetes
Project or Activity: Reduce chronic disease risk
Content or Curriculum: Taking ownership of your diabetes
Inputs: CES, Health Dept, CDC, Diabetes Advisory Council
Date: May 2018
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Cooking with diabetes
Content or Curriculum: UK curriculum
Inputs: CEC, Health Dept, CDC, DAC
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: KY Foods
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Proud
Inputs: KDA, CES, SNAP
Date: fall 2017
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials
Inputs: CES, KEHA, SNAP
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: Healthy Food Choices
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials, UK pubs
Inputs: CES, Health Dept, UK pubs
Date: 2017-2018
Audience: 4-Hers
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking, Food Preservation
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
Inputs: Agent time, volunteer time
Date: July 2017, January 2018
Audience: youth
Project or Activity: Teen Cuisine
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
inputs: staff and volunteer time
Date: Spring 2018
Author: Tracy Cowles
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Taking the fear out of going to the doctor for preschool and school aged youth was an effort of the Family & Consumer Sciences Agent. What’s in a Doctor’s Bag?, a children’s book, was used to teach preschool, head start, kindergarten, first grade and second grade youth healthy lifestyles and to jump-start them as “medically” literate consumers.The story is about a child who is left alone in a doctor's office & who accidentally knocks over the
Author: Tracy Cowles
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
The Butler County Nutrition Education Program Assistant, the Butler County Family and Consumer Science Agent, Andrea’s Mission for Men, and Andrea’s Mission for Men’s Dietician, came together to accomplish the goal of eating a healthy diet. Each week The NEP assistant taught Healthy Choices for Every Body curriculum to Andrea’s Mission for Men Rehabilitation facility.?The assistant observed an inconsistency in their diet, portion sizes, and affordability o
