Extension
It Starts With Us
Active Living and Health Promotions
Improve Physical and Mental Health
SD
Active Living and Health Promotions General
National Dining with Diabetes
Building Healthy Coalitions
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians. 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. These trends can be reversed by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote the health and wellness in all Ballard County.
- A decrease in the number of obese and overweight children, youth, adults and elderly
- Improvement in the built environment to promote physical activity and healthy eating
- Individuals are eating less of foods/food components which are commonly eaten in excess (sodium, saturated fats, trans fat, cholesterol, SoFAS, refined grains).
- Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating daily.
- Improvement in the mental health and well-being of Ballard Countians
- Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and hypertension
- Community health coalitions are addressing obesity, physical inactivity and chronic disease.
- Provide access to safe places where youth and their families can be physically active.
- People will make at least one lifestyle change (diet, exercise, managing stressors, etc.)for the purpose of improving their health
- Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical inactivity and chronic disease.
- Individuals report increase in knowledge related to eating more healthy foods (such as fruits; vegetables; especially dark green and red and orange vegetables and beans and peas; whole grains, fat free or low-fat milk and milk products; seafood twice a week, fiber) that improve personal.
- Individuals adopt new or improved habits and behaviors related to physical activity practices.
Outcome: Increased awareness of local Physical Activity Events
Indicator: Number of people who indicate and increased awareness of physical activity events
Method: Survey
Timeline: At the end of the Wheels and WINGS
Outcome: Nutrition Knowledge and Dietary Intake
Indicator: Number of individuals who reported eating more foods (such as fruits; vegetables; especially dark green and red and orange vegetables and beans and peas; whole grains, fat free or low-fat milk and milk products; seafood twice a week, fiber) for the purpose of improving health.
Method: Follow-up survey
Timeline: 1 month after Dining with Diabetes
Outcome: Chronic Disease Prevention
Indicator: Number of individuals who reported: participants who had one or more health indicator (cholesterol, blood pressure, body mass index, blood glucose) improved.
Method: Self-report survey
Timeline: Pre-test and post-tests during Keys to embracing aging
Outcome: Availability/Access to healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Number of community members who reported: implemented policy, system, and/or environmental changes to promote healthy eating and active living
Method: Self-report survey
Timeline: Pre-post implementing curricula or program
Audience: Community
Project or Activity: Policy, Systems, and Environmental Approaches
Content or Curriculum: Building Health Coalitions
Inputs: Volunteers, faith-based organizations, community partners, key stakeholders, elected officials, Employee Health and Wellness, SNAP-Ed Toolkit
Date: Ongoing projects throughout the year
Audience: Community
Project or Activity: Active Living and Healthy Promotions General
Content or Curriculum: Wheels & WINGS: Bike Ride
Inputs: Community Education, Purchase District Health Dept., Extension Service, Agents, Riders Region-wide, COMPASS Coalition
Date: May 2021
Audience: Families and Individuals
Project or Activity: Chronic Disease Prevention
Content or Curriculum: Dining with Diabetes
Inputs: Specialist, Program materials, Extension Agent, Support Group, participants, Senior Citizens Center staff, Extension Office
Date: Ongoing thought the year
Audience: Families and Individuals
Project or Activity: Chronic Disease Prevention
Content or Curriculum: Keys to Embracing Aging
Inputs: Programmatic materials, Healthcare Providers, Health Department, Volunteers, Health Partners, Community partners, Extension Agent
Date: Ongoing throughout the year
Audience: Homemakers
Project or Activity: Promoting Healthy Lifestyle Choices General
Content or Curriculum: Health Bulletins and Monthly Leader Lessons
Inputs: Volunteers, Extension Agent, community partners
Date: Monthly
Author: Paula Jerrell
Major Program: Health
Ballard County has had 45 youth involved in afterschool nutrition education classes through the 21st Century Afterschool Program. We have had fifteen K-1, fifteen 2-3 and fifteen 4-5 graders. They rotate through the class every three weeks. We have focused on where our food comes from, food groups, serving sizes and they applying what they have learned by each of them making a MyPlate of their own and then a menu for a day of their own. Each lesson also includes physical activity. &n
Author: Sarah Drysdale
Major Program: Family Development General
In Kentucky, “School readiness means that each child enters school ready to engage in and benefit from early learning experiences that best promote the child’s success”. Kentucky has broken school readiness down into five domains: physical and motor development; social and emotional development; approaches to learning; language development; and cognitive development. A child's readiness score is determined by measuring a student’s cognitive, physical and language deve
Author: Sarah Drysdale
Major Program: 21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)
Fifty-seven youth with diverse backgrounds were educated on agriculture through the 21st Century After School Program Summer Enrichment opportunity. Youth spent the first week learning about all aspects of agriculture including horticulture and transplanting plants; animals on the farm; where wool comes from and the uses of it; soil profiles; bees and beekeeping; agriculture related math; the limited resource, soil, for growing our food; and sun safety on the farm. Extension professionals
