Extension
It Starts With Us
Developing Healthier Families with Diet and Physical Activity
Healthy Life Style Choices
Judy Hetterman, Jessi Williams, FCS Program Assistant and NEP Assistants
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
Family Mealtime (Curriculum)
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Poor nutrition and limited activity have led to an increase in overweight and obese people throughout the country, as work has become more sedentary and diets are increasingly centered around prepared and restaurant foods. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some types of cancers. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. Community Partnerships working together through MAPP(Mobilizing For Action Through Planning Partnerships) to reverse these trends by promoting behavioral changes that will lead to improvement in the quality of health for Owen County citizens. Behavioral changes will lead to improvement in the quality of life for Kentuckians.
-Decrease in 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.
-Improvement in the mental health and well being of residents.
-Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension.
-Individuals will prepare meals at home 5 or more times a week.
-Individuals will increase their physical stamina.
-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, and older age.
-Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors.
-Individuals will adopt one recommendation from the dietary guidelines.
-Individuals demonstrate food preparation skills.
-Individuals engage in good food safety practices.
-Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical activity, and chronic disease.
-Changes in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding healthy lifestyle choices, weight management and practice and promotion of daily physical activity or reduction of chronic disease.
-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.
-individuals will be able to identify the components of a healthy diet as defined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Initial Outcome: Individuals will be able to identify the components of a healthy diet as defined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Indicator: Number of individuals reporting an increase in knowledge related to the components of a healthy diet.
Method: Pre/Post written evaluation. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports.
Timeline: July thru June
Intermediate Outcome: Individuals engage in good food safety practices.
Indicator:Number of individuals who implemented the recommended practices for safe storage, handling, or preparation of food.
Method: Pre/Post written evaluation. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports
Timeline: July thru June
Long-term Outcome: Individuals will prepare meals at home 5 or more times a week
Indicator: Number of individuals reporting preparing meals 5 or more times a week.
Method: Pre/Post written evaluations. Web-NEERS reports. Extension Homemaker reports
Timeline: July thru June
Long-term Outcome: Individuals will be able to recognize and manage their health related issues such as: diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, and hypertension and depression.
Indicator: Number of individuals reporting an increase in knowledge related to the healthy homemaker components is presented throughout the year.
Method: Pre/Post written evaluations. Extension Homemaker reports
Timeline: July thru June
Audience: Enrolled NEP Families & Youth
Project or Activity: Direct education
Content or Curriculum: UK NEP Adult & Youth Curriculum, Wildcat Ways to Wellness, Plate It Up!,Super Star Chef, Professor Popcorn, OrganWise curriculum
Inputs: NEP State & Regional Staff, FCS Agent
Date: July thru June
Audience:Preschool thru 2nd grade students
Project or Activity:LEAP(Literacy, Eating, and Activity for Preschool)
Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum
Inputs: FCS Program Assistant, NEP Assistant and FCS agent
Date: September thru May
Audience: Senior Citizens
Project or Activity: Monthly program
Content or Curriculum: NEP curriculum
Inputs: NEP Assistants
Date: July thru June
Audience: Individuals or family members with diabetes
Project or Activity: Living Well with Diabetes
Content or Curriculum: UK Diabetes Information & Diabetes Association resources
Inputs: FCS Agent and Three Rivers Health District Educator
Date: July-June
Audience: Youth 9-19
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking Club for Beginners
Content or Curriculum: Superstar Chef & NEP Curriculum
Inputs: NEP Assistant, FCS & 4-H Agent
Date: September thru May
Audience: Youth 9-19
Project or Activity: Advanced 4-H Cooking Club
Content or Curriculum: Superstar Chef & NEP Curriculum
Inputs: NEP Assistant, FCS & 4-H Agents
Date: September thru May
Audience: 5th grade students
Project or Activity: Recipe for Life
Content or Curriculum: WIN Kentucky Resource, Recipe for Life Curriculum through NEP
Inputs: FCS & 4-H Agents, program assistants, community leaders, extension homemaker volunteers, Master Food Volunteers
Date: September
Audience: General Public
Project or Activity: Second Sunday
Content or Curriculum: UK Resource
Inputs: FCS & 4-H Agents, program assistants, Three Rivers Health District Educator, Youth Services Director and NEP Assistants
Date: October
Audience: Homemaker Leaders from each county
Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers
Content or Curriculum: Resources prepared by FCS Agents & UK's specialists
Inputs: Northern KY FCS Agents & UK resources
Date: August 2017 & January 2018
Audience: Homemaker Members
Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers
Content or Curriculum: Resources prepared by FCS Agents & UK specialist
Inputs: Northern KY FCS Agent & UK resources
Date: September 2017 thru May 2018
Audience: Owen County High School Freshmen
Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
Inputs: 4-H Agent, Freshmen Teachers, OC Drug Prevention Coalition, Community Volunteers, Guest Speakers
Date: Fall 2017
Author: Judith Hetterman
Major Program: Food Preparation
The “Recipes for Life” program is an educational experience, which provides a hands-on learning experience for175 fifth grade youth in Owen County annually, where they learn food preparation skills, kitchen and food safety, mealtime etiquette, and nutritional knowledge/healthy eating. The program goes along with the Kentucky Core Curriculum Math and Science skills which are innately a part of cooking as well as reading. Students are encouraged to share their student booklet, recipe b
