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Making healthy Lifestyle Choices and Citizen Education
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices and Citizen Education
Dockery, Doggett, Jordan, Lindsay, Neal, Wells
Faithful Families
Local Food Systems
Business Retention and Expansion
Active Living and Health Promotions General
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality of life 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. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90% over the last 15 years. Thirty-percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. Increased consumption of unhealthy foods, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic.
Nutrition education programs, local / home garden, and farmer's markets help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on healthy safe food preparation methods, importance of sustainable practices, and improvement of individual/local gardening practices. Citizens receive education on senior issues, parenting and low vision resources. Agents, paraprofessionals, and volunteers are pivotal in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table.
There are over 9950 children in out of home care, of which 1444 reside in the Southern Bluegrass Region. Substance abuse contributed to 50% of all child abuse and neglect cases. These numbers contribute to the instability of families, communities, social services and economic stability and growth.
Parenting education programs reduce risk factors that are known to contribute to abuse and neglect. Teaching skills like communicating with respect, nurturing parenting, alternatives to spanking, understanding feelings, conflict resolution, ages and stages of development, praising children and their behavior and other parenting skills aid in prevention and reduction of child and neglect.
Increase in the practice and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating.
Improve access and availability of local foods to the community. Provide education and resource availability regarding senior social issues, low visibility and parenting.
Reduce the number of children placed in out of home care.
Reduce the numbers of cases for abuse and neglect
Reduce the recidivism rate of cases of abuse and neglect.
Improve nurturing parenting skills.
Practice of physical activity and healthy food choices in families and communities through decreased time of sedentary behaviors, maintaining appropriate calorie intake, and practicing healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthen individual’s ability to cope with normal life stressors.
Residents will increase practices related to Community and Economic Development by increased participation in job preparedness programs, involvement in local community events, developing new jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities, and adopting fiscally responsible behaviors
Participants will practice nurturing parenting skills with their children.
Participants will have children returned to home.
Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes towards parenting, discipline, home management and conflict resolution skills.
The practice and promotion of healthy food and nutrition, financial and mental well-being.
Outcome: Long-term Families will be reunited
Indicator: Participants will use alternative to spanking, which reduces the risk of physical abuse. No new cases of abuse or neglect.
Method: Self-reported
Timeline: ongoing
Outcome: Intermediate: No new cases/allegations of abuse or
neglect.
Indicator: Participants will practice using alternatives to spanking, effective communication, conflict resolution and will have appropriate expectations for children.
Method: Self-report
Timeline: ongoing
Outcome: Initial: Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes towards parenting, discipline, home management and conflict resolution skills.
Indicator: Participants will learn to adopt nurturing parenting skills that increase the child’s self-esteem, set age appropriate boundaries and expectations, establish effective communication habits and apply increased knowledge and awareness that was learned.
Method: Weekly Evaluation/Survey, AAPI 1 and AAPI2
Timeline: Ongoing
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP curriculum
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Agents, NEP Program assistants, CES Publications
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Physical Activity Programs
Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance Curriculum, Get Moving Kentucky
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, CES publications, Extension Specialist
Dates: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Get Fit Fayette County
Content or Curriculum: Various Curriculums
Input, KY Cooperative Extension Agents, public and private health agencies, non-profit organizations
Dates: Ongoing
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Kentucky Plate it Up/ Farmer's Market
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up Curriculum
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, CES publications, KDA, NEP assistants
Dates: Summer, Fall and Spring
Audience:
Project or Activity: Better Bites
Content or Curriculum: Better Bites Curriculum; Social Marketing and Policy Exploratory Pilot Study
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Specialists, Volunteers, CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: ongoing
Audience: Adults, Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Phone calls, e-mails, and office visit customer service opportunities
Content or Curriculum: Available resources through CES publications, specialists, and listed curricula
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Program Assistants, Specialists, Volunteers, CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: On-Going
Audience: Youth
Project or Activity: Lexington Drug Free Projects
Content or Curriculum: Health Rocks, Drug prevention
Inputs 4-H Agents, 4-H Assistants, FCS Agents, LFUCG, Police Department
Dates: ongoing
Audience: Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Cooking/Food & Nutrition
Content or curriculum: 4-H curriculum; FCS curriculum; Plate It Up recipes
Inputs: 4-H Agents,4-H assistants, volunteers
Date: day camps, after-school programs
Audience: Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking Club(s)
Content or curriculum: 4-H foods curriculum; FCS curriculum; Plate It Up recipes
Inputs: 4-H Agent, volunteers
Date: monthly club meetings and as requested
Audience: Adult and Youth
Project or Activity: SNAP-Ed/ Double dollars
Content or Curriculum: NEP curriculum, CES Publications
Inputs: EFNEP and SNAP Ed assistants, County Extension Agents
Date: On-Going
Audience: Community residents
Project or Activity: Growing Community program
Content or Curriculum: ID-128
Inputs: Volunteers, collaborating agencies, LFUCG, County agents
Date: Annually in May
Audience: Fayette county School Students
Project or Activity: Agriculture Education for Fayette County School Students.
Content or Curriculum: Teach Students about Agriculture and show where food comes from.
Inputs: Leaders, Agents, Fayette County Schools, Locust Trace School.
Date: Spring and Fall.
Audience: Community Residents & Businesses
Project: Local Foods Committee & Coordinator
Content & Curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, LFUCG, Agents, Specialist
Date: All Year
Audience: Fayette County Schools Administration and Board
Project: School Health and Wellness Policy
Content & curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, Specialist and CES curriculum
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Senior Adults
Projects: Challenges of Aging, Grandparents Raising Relatives, Next Best Years
Content and Curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, Specialists, and CES curriculum
Date: ongoing
Audience: Adults
Projects: Food and Nutrition
Content: Food for Thought, Food Preservation, Adult Cooking, Champion Food Volunteers
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Community residents
Project or Activity: Master gardener projects related to food production
Content or Curriculum: Publications
Inputs: volunteers, specialists, county agents
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Community residents
Project or Activity: Growing Community program
Content or Curriculum: ID-128
Inputs: Volunteers, collaborating agencies, LFUCG, County agents
Date: Annually in May
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Farmer's Market/Plate it Up
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up, KY Department of Ag
Inputs: Cooperative Extension Agent, specialists, KDA, Lexington Farmer's Market
Date: On-going
Audience: Adults, Teens & Youth
Project or Activity: Phone calls, e-mails, and office visit customer service opportunities
Content or Curriculum: Available resources through CES publications, specialists, and listed curricula
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Program Assistants, Specialists, Volunteers, Kentucky CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: SKY Families Program
Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parenting Curriculum
Inputs: Carla Jordan
Date: 6-week sessions. Class meets twice per week for 1 hour and a half.
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Plate It Up
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up
Inputs: EFNEP Assistant
Date: 5 classes per session
Author: Madalyn Hale
Major Program: Natural Resources
The week of October 26-30, 2020 was Fayette County Extension's Pumpkin Week! This was the first year that we put together a Pumpkin Week. Pumpkin Week was spearheaded by myself and the other 4-H staff, but it was a whole office collaboration to pull it off and get everything together. 4-H provided all of the supplies and I coordinated the activities and materials to be provided. The Horticulture Agent and Technician provided videos about pumpkins and one about floral arranging using pumpkins
Author: Jamie Dockery
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Recent COVID related events left many people working from home. The increased time at home and social distancing measures created a new surge of interest in home vegetable gardening and food preservation. In an effort to deliver our information to people in a home setting we had to shift to video classes via Youtube. The horticulture agent and technician began filming short, informative Youtube videos of specific gardening topics. To date our channel features 100 short videos which have be
Author: Jamie Dockery
Major Program: Horticulture, Consumer and Home
Recent COVID related events left many people working from home. The increased time at home and social distancing measures created a new surge of interest in home vegetable gardening and food preservation. In an effort to deliver our information to people in a home setting we had to shift to video classes via Youtube. The horticulture agent and technician began filming entire classes for our Gardener's Toolbox series. In the past year our Toolbox class videos have reached over 2808 &nbs
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Financial Education - General
In the modern age of technology, the nature of estate planning has changed. Because so much personal information is stored online, new strategies must be undertaken in order to protect one’s digital assets. Digital estate planning helps loved ones to locate and access important digital information, it may clarify disputes regarding final will and testament, and it may simplify the transition for family members. Fayette Co. Extension FCS partnered with Bluegrass Elder Law to present
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Family Development General
Kentucky has the highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the nation and ranked 5th for the number of children in care of grandparents. Approximately 44,000 are living in homes led by grandparents (datacenter.kidscount.org/data). Caregivers face many challenges as they strive to develop healthy relationships with children who have experienced significant loss, pain and disappointment. The needs of children can be overwhelming and COVID 19 generated isolation and limited access to r
Author: Jamie Dockery
Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation
When the pandemic struck, Fayette County Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education assistant Jacqui Denegri and horticulture agent Jamie Dockery had to quickly redesign their summer gardening/cooking series for students with Down Syndrome. They had to take the entire program online. Families picked up garden packets Dockery made for them,that gave them the things they needed to grow tomatoes and peppers in their own yards. During the weekly sessions, he would answer questions they had
