Extension
It Starts With Us
Health, Nutrition and Development
Accessing Nutritious Foods
Cowles, Saylor
Faithful Families
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Active Living and Health Promotions 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 2020
Intermediate Outcome: Increase healthy food choices
Indicator: Diet change to improve health
Method: Questionnaire - Pre/Post
Timeline: May-June 2020
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 2019 - June 2020
Audience: Individuals with and without Pre Diabetes and Diabetes
Project or Activity: Reduce chronic disease risk
Content or Curriculum: Faithful Families
Inputs: CES, Health Dept, CDC, Diabetes Advisory Council
Date: May 2020
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Cooking with new products
Content or Curriculum: UK curriculum
Inputs: CEC, Health Dept, CDC, DAC
Date: Spring 2020
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: KY Foods
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Proud
Inputs: KDA, CES, SNAP
Date: fall 2019
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials
Inputs: CES, KEHA, SNAP
Date: July 2019-June 2020
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: Healthy Food Choices
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials, UK pubs
Inputs: CES, Health Dept, UK pubs
Date: 2019-2020
Audience: 4-Hers
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking, Food Preservation
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
Inputs: Agent time, volunteer time
Date: July 2018, January 2019, May 2019
Audience: youth
Project or Activity: Teen Cuisine
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
inputs: staff and volunteer time
Date: Spring 2019
Author: Tracy Cowles
Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation
Due to the pandemic, traditional programming had to take a back seat and new programming ideas had to be developed. One technique that the Butler County Extension Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences used was social media. Since, families were not gathering during the holidays to celebrate as they did in the past, some were now going to be preparing those holiday meals for the first time. To help with this, Talking Turkey, a video series, was developed to show the process of purchasing
