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Clay County CES

Title:
Active Living and Health Promotions
MAP:
Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities
Agents Involved:
Lora Lee Frazier Howard, Alissa Ackerman, Jeff Casada
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Nutrition and Food Systems General
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Active Living and Health Promotions General
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Health
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Food Preparation and Preservation
Situation:

Clay County, a small rural county in Eastern Kentucky, families make choices to improve health and wellbeing, incorporate nutritious food into their diet, participate in physical activity, and chronic disease (including diabetes, heart disease stroke, cancer) prevention. With the increased trend of chronic disease and obesity in KY, individuals, families, youth and communities need tools and environments that support healthy and active lifestyle choices.   CES Agents are encouraged to reach audiences to help combat chronic disease and obesity in KY communities.   Focusing on a foundation of overall direct health education to increase health literacy and ability to make healthy lifestyle choices.  A foundation of nutrition knowledge, skills and competencies in topics such as food safety, handling and preparation, cooking methods and techniques, feeding practices, are essential to changing dietary behaviors. According to statistics 38% of our county is obese with 18% of our adults being diagnosed with diabetes, and 33% of the adults don’t meet the standard activity level and 48% have high blood pressure. Lifestyle choices impact the quality and years of life.

Long-Term Outcomes:

-Increase the physical activity and dietary recommendations that promote health and wellness for families and youth.

-Reduce the rate of chronic disease and obesity. 


 

Intermediate Outcomes:

-Generate positive attitude toward lifestyle choices to be healthy. 

-Increase intake of fruit, vegetables, and other nutrient dense food.

-Improve self-efficacy in physical activity and movement.

Initial Outcomes:

-Increase awareness of healthy lifestyle choices and chronic disease.

-Improve food and nutrition related skills preparation and safe food handling.

-Increase physical activity.



Evaluation:

Long-Term Outcome: Increase the consumption of healthy foods and increase physical activity.

Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity, number that report eating more healthy foods, leading to improvement of quality of life.

Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.

Timeline: 2020-2024


Intermediate Outcome: Families practice healthy food choices to build healthy eating plans. Family practice physical activity.

Indicator: number that reported spending time together in physical activity; number that report eating more healthy foods leading to improvement of quality of life.

Method: word of mouth, formal/informal evaluation.

Timeline: 2020-2024


Initial Outcome: Families will increase knowledge, skills and attitude related to healthy life skill choices and weight management.

Indicator: Number that gained knowledge about eating healthy food. Number that reported understanding the benefits of spending time together in physical activity.

Method: Word of mouth, formal/informal evaluations.

Timeline: 2020-2024


Learning Opportunities:

Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Diabetes Support Group

Content or Curriculum:  Diabetic Shoes

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  Quarterly 2020-2021


Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Plate It Up Cooking School

Content or Curriculum:  Plate It Up Recipes

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  3 times a year


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Cook Together, Eat Together

Content or Curriculum:  Cook Together, Eat Together

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent/Agencies

Date:  2020-2021




Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Holiday Cooking School

Content or Curriculum:  Recipes

Inputs:  Wilderness Trail Area Family & Consumer Agents

Date:  November 2020


Audience:  Women & Men

Project or Activity:  DASH Diet

Content or Curriculum:  Family & Consumer Science Publications

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date: 2020-2021


Audience:  Homemakers

Project or Activity:  Mastering Food Choices

Content or Curriculum:  Mastering Food Choices

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  August 2020


Audience:  Adults

Project or Activity:  Weigh 2 Go

Content or Curriculum:  Weigh 2 Go

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent, Curriculum

Date:  Winter 2020-2021


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Healthy Walking Healthy Life

Content or Curriculum:  Walking Program

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date Spring 2021


Audience:  Middle School 7th Grade

Project or Activity:  Truth and Consequences                        

Content or Curriculum:  Truth and Consequences

Inputs:  All Agents, Community

Date 2020-2021


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Preserving Food

Content:  UK Publications

Inputs:   Agents      

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Dehydrating Food

Content:  UK Publication

Input:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  2020-2021



Audience:  Families

Project or Activity:  Knife Skills

Content or Curriculum:  UK Publication

Input:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:  Families

Project or Activity: Recipes for Life

Content or Curriculum:   UK Publications

Inputs:  Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:   Families  

Project or Activity:  Recipe of the Month

Content or Curriculum:  Plate It Up Recipes/ Calendar Cooking

Input:  Plate It Up Recipes Grocery Stores, Family & Consumer Science Agent

Date:  All year


Audience:  Homemakers

Project or Activity:  Sensational Salads

Content or Curriculum:  UK Publication

Input:  Homemaker Leader’s Training, UK Curriculum

Date:  February 2021


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  4-H Cooking 101

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Cooking 101 Curriculum

Inputs:  4-H Agent

Date:  2020-2021 School Year


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Health Rocks

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Curriculum

Inputs:  4-H Agent

Date:  2020-2021 


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity: Mental Health Education

Content or Curriculum:  Mental Health 4-H Curriculum

Inputs:  4-H Agent

Date:  2020-2021





Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Professor Popcorn

Content or Curriculum:  FCS/4-H Curriculum

Inputs:  4-H Agent

Date:  2020-2021 School


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Middle School Enrichment

Content or Curriculum:  Team Building With Youth 

Input:  4-H Agent, Teachers

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Manners for the Real World

Content or Curriculum:  Manners for the Real World

Input:  4-H Agent, Teachers

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:  Youth

Project or Activity:  Hygiene 101

Content or Curriculum:  Staying Healthy – National 4-H Curriculum

Input:  4-H Agent, Teachers

Date:  2020-2021


Audience:  Adults/Teens

Project or Activity:  Disaster Preparedness

Content or Curriculum:  UK Publication

Input:  Agents/Volunteers

Date:  2020-2021




Success Stories

At-Home Cooking Brings New Learning Experiences to 4-Hers

Author: Alissa Ackerman

Major Program: Family and Consumer Science

At-Home Cooking Brings New Learning Experiences to 4-Hers

Many negative aspects are associated with the Covid-10 pandemic, which can easily trigger more stress, panic and anxiety for many families and individuals. However, this brings an even greater opportunity for communities to come together and help one another during challenging times. The 4-H Agent, along with several other community partners, had to think outside of the box to offer at-home educational experiences that foster engagement and new learning opportunities for youth. With children spe

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Walking Challenges

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Active Living and Health Promotions General

Clay County Extension FCS Agent with three other organizations AdventHealth, Clay County Health Department, Diabetes Coalition  and Red Bird Mission hosted and promoted three county wide walks for our residence.  We wanted them to be physically active, safe at home, practice social distancing and take care of themselves.We had a total of 75 people sign up for the three Walking Challenges, many walked outside.  They sent in bi-weekly logs to the Extension Office.   We had a lo

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Digging Into Culture

Author: Alissa Ackerman

Major Program: Leadership

Kentucky 4-H has four guiding models which include: mastery, belonging, independence and generosity. Through these guiding concepts, the goal is for all youth to have available opportunities that foster positive youth development. According the U.S. Census Bureau, Clay County has a population of 19, 901 with a small percentage of racial and ethnic diversity. In order for youth to become knowledgeable and successful in the ever-changing global world, one must have the opportunity to experience di

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Holiday Cooking School

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation

Surviving the Holiday Season, especially during a pandemic can be stressful and hard on families. They are looking for ways to feed and celebrate with their families safely. The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, Wilderness Trail Area Family and Consumer Sciences Agents partnered together to implement Holiday Cooking School in a Box to help alleviate the stress and provide families with tools and tips to get them through these unprecedented times.The program was conducted in B

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Diabetes Coalition

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Active Living and Health Promotions General

 The incidence of diabetes in KY has doubled from 2000 to 2017, it increased to 12.9%. The prevalence of diabetes in the Cumberland Valley Region is 15.8 % and many are living with diabetes and don’t know they have it.The Family and Consumer Science Agent was asked to participate in a grant to form a Diabetes Coalition in Clay County.  Each county received 10,000.00 to form the coalition and sponsor programs for diabetics or pre diabetic individuals.The Clay County Family and Con

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Sensational Salads

Author: Lora Howard

Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation

Individuals during Covid were looking for nutrition good tasting options for food consumption.   Families make choices to improve health and well-being to combat chronic diseases and obesity to improve and make healthy lifestyle changes. The homemaker leaders training Sensational Salads was presented Live via Facebook by the Family and Consumer Science Agent.Topics covered were nutritional value of salad greens, how to select, store and prepare salad, adding color texture to your meal,

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