Extension
It Starts With Us
Personal Development
4-H Health & Life Skills
R. Ford
Communications and Expressive Arts
Active Living and Health Promotions General
Substance Use Prevention and Recovery General
Leadership
How we live life is ever-changing but learning basic life skills is still as important as ever. Learning to practice healthy habits, select clothing to emphasize one’s best appearance, create and live within a budget, prepare nutritious meals safely, nurture children, create a safe and pleasant home environment, practice common courtesies, and form relationships with others—all of these skills are basic to everyday life. Many schools no longer include family and consumer sciences classes in the curriculum. Reality is that today’s youth and adults are busier than ever. Many of these basic life skills are not consistently taught to youth at home or at school. 4-H family and consumer sciences and health projects equip youth with these skills.
-Youth will be responsible and contributing individuals and family members.
-Youth will gain and maintain employment through life skill development.
-Youth will contribute to a safe, pleasant and productive home and family.
-Youth will maintain positive health habits.
-Youth are competent, capable, contributing adults as a result of their participation in 4-H Health programs.
-Youth will utilize and practice life skills in projects and life situations.
-Youth will project a positive image and self-confidence.
-Youth will practice responsible consumer and financial decision-making.
-Youth will practice healthy eating choices.
-Youth will make choices that lead to responsible and beneficial results.
-Youth will adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress.
-Youth will gain knowledge and develop skills in Family & Consumer Sciences projects and programs.
-Youth will identify healthy lifestyle choices.
-Youth understand risky behaviors and their consequences.
-Youth identify healthy ways to handle stress.
-Youth understand the decision-making process.
Initial Outcome: Youth will identify healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Number of youth reported identifying healthy lifestyle choices.
Method: survey
Timeline: fall 2018, spring 2019
Intermediate Outcome: Youth will utilize and practice life skills in projects and life situations.
Indicator: Number of youth who reported that they showed another person how to do what they learned to do for themselves.
Method: survey, observation
Timeline: spring 2019
Long-term Outcome: Youth will be responsible and contributing individuals and family members.
Indicator: Number of youth who demonstrate increased or routine use of life skills learned through 4-H in daily life.
Method: survey, observation
Timeline: all year
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Physical Activity
Content or Curriculum: (LEAP)Literacy, Eating and Activity for Primary
Inputs: Rowan County Schools or Day Care Centers
Date: Spring
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: 4-H National Health Month
Inputs: Elementary and Middle School
Date: February 2019
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: SPARK Afterschool
Inputs: Morehead Parks & Recreation, local school systems
Date: summer day camp and school club lesson
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Project
Content or Curriculum: Babysitting
Inputs: Morehead Parks & Recreation, local school systems
Date: fall 2018 or winter 2019
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Project
Content or Curriculum: It's Your Reality/Dollars & Sense Program
Inputs: local school systems
Date: Spring 2019
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: BIZWorld/Consuremer in Me
Inputs: Clearfield
Date: all school year
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: Kids in the Kitchen
Inputs: Morehead Parks & Recreation, FYRC, Community Ed Director
Date: summer
Audience: High School Students
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: Dress for Success
Inputs: Rowan County Extension Office, Rowan County Senior High School and Community Ed
Date: all year
Audience: High School Students
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: Culinary
Inputs: Rowan County Extension Office, Rowan County Senior High School and Community Ed
Date: all year
Audience: Middle/High School Students
Project or Activity: Activity
Content or Curriculum: Truth & Consequences
Inputs: Rowan County Extension, Rowan County Schools, Community agencies
Date: spring
Audience: Middle/High School Students
Project or Activity: activity 4-H Outdoor Adventure Club
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Backpack to Adventure
Inputs: Rowan County Extension, Rowan County 4-H Council
Date: all program year
Audience: Youth in Rowan County
Project or Activity: variety of activities for the RWJ grant
Content or Curriculum: 4-H and FCS health, nutrition and wellness curriculum
Inputs: UK Family & Consumer Sciences Department, Rowan County District Board
Date: current to Summer 2019
Author: Raven Ford
Major Program: Family Development General
The COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges for the schools as well as for the way programming was being conducted by the Extension Service. With the Rowan County Extension Office being on an office rotation schedule and several programs being canceled, a new way of meeting the needs of the community needed to be done. In an effort to help address the issue of the pandemic, just like other agents across the state, the Rowan County Extension Office offered Grab-n-Go Program Kits to give the y
