Nutrition Education and Physical ActivityPlan of Work

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Warren County CES

Title:
Nutrition Education and Physical Activity
MAP:
Building Strong Families
Agents Involved:
Julie Brown, Joanna Coles, Janet Turley & Kristin Hildabrand
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Faithful Families
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
4-H Leadership Core Curriculum
Situation:

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.

Long-Term Outcomes:

•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

Intermediate Outcomes:

•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

Initial Outcomes:

•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

Evaluation:

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

Learning Opportunities:

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






Success Stories

Warren County Food Preservation Workshop

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

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Grow Cook Eat

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

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