Extension
It Starts With Us
Nutrition Education and Physical Activity
Building Strong Families
Julie Brown, Joanna Coles, Janet Turley & Kristin Hildabrand
Faithful Families
4-H Leadership Core Curriculum
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancers. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. The Centers for Disease Control stated that only 29% of high school youth participated in at 60 minutes of physical activity a week. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans.
•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.
•A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly
•Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily
•Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating
•Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
•Practice healthy food choices and strengthen individuals’ ability to build healthy eating plans and patterns.
•Maintain appropriate calorie balance during each stage of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, pregnancy and breastfeeding and older age
•Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors
•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.
•Healthy Lifestyle Choices
•Adult Weight Management
•Practice and Promotion of Daily Physical Activity
Initial Outcome: Increase knowledge on healthy eating and physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Increase in consumption in healthy food
Method: Evaluation, Survey, Word of Mouth
Timeline: July, 2019-June, 2020
Intermediate Outcomes: Families/Youth decrease their weight and increasing their amount of physical activity and have an increase self esteem
Indicator: Individuals reporting weight loss and activity logs and increase of number of youth adopting healthy behaviors
Method: Survey and word of mouth
Timeline: July 2016-June 2020
Long-term Outcomes: Youth and Adults are at a lower risk serious disease and illness
Indicator: Number of participants reporting positive changes in healthy due to healthier eating and physical activity levels
Method: Survey, word of mouth, observation, news articles, pre and post evaluations
Timeline: On going
Audience: Majority Free and Reduced Lunch Schools
Project or Activity:
Content or Curriculum: Gardening for children, nutrition, and producer information
Inputs: Hands on visuals, recipe demonstrations
Date: Throughout the year
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Nutrition/Physical Activity Education
Content or Curriculum: Professor Popcorn, Nutrition Curriculum, Spark, WIN
Inputs: Agent’s Time, materials, handouts, food samples
Date: July 2019 – June 2020
Audience: Low income senior citizens, low income adults, adults and school aged youth
Project or Activity: Plate It Up
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up featured program
Inputs: Agent’s Time, Staff Assistant’s Time, Committee Meetings, facilities
Date: Summer 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2019
Author: Julie Brown
Major Program: Food Preservation
The Warren County Family & Consumer Science Agent, 4-H Youth Development Agent, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Educator partnered together to provide a Food Preservation Workshop. Six participants completed the 2019 Warren County Food Preservation Program where they were taught the pressure canning, water bath canning, freezing and drying methods of food preservation. Over half (57%) of the participants were new to Cooperative Extension programming. Over half
Author: Kristi Shive
Major Program: Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Warren County is home to one of the three refugee resettlement agencies in the state of Kentucky. Over 500 refugees resettle to Warren County each year. Over half of refugees are children under 18. Many refugees relocate with little knowledge of where to purchase food items or how to prepare them, usage of kitchen equipment, and proper food safety. In collaboration with the Warren County Fiscal Court and SOKY Marketplace, Kristi and Nan were included in a specialty crop grant to teach the commun
