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 2021
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: KY Foods
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up Proud
Inputs: KDA, CES, SNAP
Date: fall 2021
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: LEAP
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials
Inputs: CES, KEHA, SNAP
Date: July 2021-June 2022
Audience: Preschoolers
Project or Activity: Healthy Food Choices
Content or Curriculum: LEAP and SNAP materials, UK pubs
Inputs: CES, Health Dept, UK pubs
Date: 2021-2022
Audience: 4-Hers
Project or Activity: 4-H Cooking, Food Preservation
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
Inputs: Agent time, volunteer time
Date: July 2021, January 2022, May 2022
Audience: youth
Project or Activity: Teen Cuisine
Content or Curriculum: 4-H curriculum
inputs: staff and volunteer time
Date: Spring 2022
Author: Gregory Drake
Major Program: Community Vitality and Leadership – 4-H Youth Development
In May of 2022 The Butler County Extension Service worked with several community partners to offer the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day Camp for all the 4th graders in our community. All of the office staff worked to make the day a success. The program was held at the extension office because of the unique capabilities of our facility, and the willingness of our staff to support the event. The 4-H agent Lloyd Saylor served on the planning committee and was able to bring the l
Author: Tracy Cowles
Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation
Making healthy choices for snacks was taught to 128 sixth graders during the 2022 school year. During this time, the students were taught the importance of fruits in their diet and introduced to foods that would make nutritious snacks. Fruits were used for the most part since several of the students mentioned the “lack of” them in their diets. Fruits presented were, mangos, apricots, grapes, apples, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, cranberries, raisins, mandarin oranges
