Kenton County CES

Title:

SNAP

MAP:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Agents Involved:

Averbeck, Donahue, Kelley, Bowling, Stanton, Byrnes, Allen

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Health

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Nutrition and Food Systems General

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Horticulture, Consumer and Home

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Active Living and Health Promotions General

Situation:

Nutrition Education Programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on growing their own produce, and practicing healthy and safe food preparation methods. Agents, paraprofessionals and volunteers are pivotal in influencing policies, systems, and environments and in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table. The Centers for Disease Control found in a nationally representative survey that only 29% of high school youth participated in at least 60 minutes of physical activity on each of the seven days before the survey.

Long-Term Outcomes:

• Kentucky population will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day
• Kentuckians improve food management skills and healthy eating habits
• Youth will be food secure when school is not in session
• People accessing emergency food sources will select from nutrient dense items
• 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.
• Family members will eat a broader range of vegetables.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Number who:
• Access more local foods
• Redeem Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program benefit.
Plant, harvest and preserve produce
• Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits

Number of:
• Youth who access other food sources when not in school
• Households accessing emergency food sources
• Youth adopt healthy behaviors that lead to a healthy lifestyle that include making healthy lifestyle choices, not engaging in risky behavior and handling stress 

Initial Outcomes:

• Understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual health and financial well-being
• Learn to grow, prepare and preserve food
• Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet
• Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management
• Learn about community support services to increase food security
• 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.
• Youth and adults reap the emotional benefits from nurturing a garden.

Evaluation:

Outcome: Kenton Countians will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day
Indicator: Citizens purchase more and increase consumption of fruits and vegetables
Method: Farmers' market observations and follow up lesson evaluations

Outcome: Kenton County citizens learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet
Indicator: Participants try new foods during CES programs or obtain at farmers' market
Method: Plate It Up evaluation form
Timeline: All year

Outcome: People accessing emergency food sources will select from nutrient dense items
Indicator: Participants try new foods during CES programs or obtain through farmers' market
Method: Plate It Up evaluation form
Timeline: All year

• The number of youth that report making healthy lifestyle choices.
• The number of youth that report not engaging in risky behavior.
• The number of youth that report feeling good about themselves.
• The number of youth that report that they know how to handle stress.

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Covington or Erlanger/Elsmere Public Schools
Project or Activity: Dairy Day
Input:Agents, Local AG Professionals
Date: March, 2019, 2020

Audience: Kenton County Residents
Project or Activity:Farm Tour
Input: Agents, Volunteers
Date: Fall 2018

Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Nutrition enrichment at City Heights
Input: SNAP-Ed
Date: January-March 2019

Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Get Fit with 4-H School Clubs
Content or Curriculum: Get Fit with 4-H
Inputs: Agent and assistants
Date: September 2018-May 2019 

Audience: 6^th District Summer Youth
Project or Activity: Summer Day Camp "Super Star Chef"
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Health
Inputs: Agent designed
Date: June & July, 2018-2019

Audience:  Youth & Camp; Adult
Project or Activity:Culinary Challenge
Content or Curriculum:Culinary ChallengeInputs:  Agent designed
Date:  2018

Audience:  Erlanger-Elsmere BFF Club
Project or Activity:Healthy Living
Content:  4-H Health
Inputs:  Agent designed
Date:  2018/2019

 Audience:  Tichenor Middle school
Project or Activity:Healthy Living
Content:  4-H Health
Inputs:  Agent designed
Date:  2018/2019

Audience: Lloyd High School Senior  Cooking
Project or Activity:Healthy Living
Content:  4-H Health
Inputs:  Agent designed
Date:  2018/2019

Audience:  Bartlett Alternative School
Project or Activity:Healthy Living
Content:  4-H Health
Inputs:  Agent designed
Date:  2018/2019

Audience: General public, including SNAP participants 
Project or Activity: Farmers’ Markets CES information booth 
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up, FCS preparation and safety information, vegetable garden information
Inputs: Agent designed, SNAP incentives
Date: July-October, 2018, May-June, 2019 

Audience: General public, including SNAP participants, various county locations 
Project or Activity: Vegetable seed give-away for Earth Day and at other events 
Content or Curriculum: UK gardening information, seed packets
Inputs: Agents, Master Gardener volunteers
Date: April yearly 

Audience: SNAP Assistants and Kenton County Staff
Project or Activity: SNAP program collaboration
Content or Curriculum: UK SNAP
Inputs: Kenton Program Funds
Date: All year 

Audience: Senior Center Nutrition Groups
Project or Activity: Nutrition education programs
Content or Curriculum: MyPlate, Plate It Up
Inputs: SNAP ed curriculum, Agent designed
Date: Monthly beginning July 2018

Audience: SNAP families 
Project or Activity: Readyfests and Health Fairs
Content or Curriculum: SNAP, MyPlate, Plate It UP
Inputs: Agent designed, SNAP incentives
Date: August 2018

Audience: Life Learning Center Adults
Project or Activity: Nutrition Education for Recovering Adults
Content or Curriculum: SNAP curriculum, MYPlate 
Inputs: Agent and center staff designed
Date: Monthly beginning July 2018

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Farmers’ Market WIC voucher redemption
Content or Curriculum: UK SNAP, MyPlate, Plate It Up
Inputs: N. KY. Health Department, UK Extension
Date: July-September,  2019

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Plate It Up, Kentucky Proud!
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up!
Inputs: FCS agent update
Date: October 2018 - April 2019

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Independence Food Bank
Content or Curriculum: SNAP and Plate It Up!
Inputs: UK Curriculum
Date: Monthly

Audience: Summer Youth Day Camps
Project or Activity: Healthy Eating lessons
Content or Curriculum: MyPlate
Inputs: UK Curriculum
Date: July-August 

Audience: SNAP families
Project or Activity: Nutrition news articles focusing on fruits and vegetables
Content or Curriculum: UK exclusives, nutrition publications
Inputs: FCS agent developed
Date: Monthly articles--rotate topics 

Audience: SNAP families, Spanish-speaking
Project or activity: Instruction on vegetable and fruit gardening
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references & materials
Inputs: Horticulture agent
Dates: Ongoing 

Audience: SNAP families, English-speaking
Project or activity: Instruction on vegetable and fruit gardening
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references & materials
Inputs: County horticulture agent
Dates: Ongoing 

Audience: Youth (English- and Spanish-speaking), including SNAP family members
Project or Activity: Summer youth day camps
Content or Curriculum: UK & Extension horticulture references and materials; American Horticultural Society trainings and manuals
Inputs: County agent designed; NKU Dept. of Allied Health; SNAP-Ed staff; Community garden leaders
Dates: Summer 2018, 2019 

Audience; General public, including SNAP members
Project or Activity: Vegetable and fruit gardening classes and demonstrations
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension horticulture references and materials
Inputs: County agent, UK Extension specialists
Dates: Ongoing 

Audience: Community Garden Managers, facilitators, and volunteers who work with SNAP members
Project or Activity: Vegetable and Fruit Gardening classes, demonstrations, on-site instruction
Content or Curriculum: UK and Extension Horticulture references & materials
Inputs: County agents, AHS and U of L community garden materials
Dates: Ongoing 

Audience: Covington Housing Residents

Project or Activity: Nutrition Education Lessons

Content of Curriculum: UK SNAP and Plate It Up; agent designed

Inputs: County agents

Dates: Monthly

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