Campbell County CES

Title:

Nurturing Families

MAP:

FCS - Nurturing Families

Agents Involved:

Rex, Thompson

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Nurturing Parenting

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Keys to Great Parenting

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Blue To You

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Home is Where the Health Is

Situation:

Healthy couple and parenting relationships and resulting family stability benefit the well-being of adults and children. Co-habiting, same-sex, divorced, widowed and single households are the new majority. Stresses on military families are more difficult and prolonged because of the demands on military personnel to serve multiple deployments, frequently in combat zones. Children who live absent from their biological fathers are two to three times more likely to be poor, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents. In 2009, 26 percent of Kentucky children lived in poverty, ranking Kentucky 48th in the nation. Children who start kindergarten with delayed development and fewer assets are by far more likely to repeat grades, get tracked into lower-tier classes and drop out of high school than more advantaged children. More than half of Kentucky’s 56 judicial circuits have some form of mandated divorce education; more such education is needed.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Kentucky families are able to:
Care for the physical and mental health and well-being of each individual over the long term
Foster the optimal development of children and youth
Practice parental leadership skills
Build personal strengths and self-control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision-making
Embrace people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
Reach out with empathy to people dealing with severe stress
Access community resources when needed
Become volunteers to make their community a better place to live for everyone

Intermediate Outcomes:

The number of people who:
Set and used family rules, routines and limited screen time
Ate family meals four or more times a week
Reduced stress levels, made time for selves, and/or made wise decisions about money, time, etc.
Played and spent quality time with child daily
Reported child’s developmental progress over time
Identified realistic expectations for child’s tasks
Reported using preventive and positive discipline techniques in response to misbehavior and setting and enforcing logical consequences
Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships
Accessed community agencies and resources when needed
Engaged in community outreach activities

Initial Outcomes:

Commits to set family rules regarding eating together, limiting screen time, active play and exercise, set routines
Intends to manage stress; make time for self; listen, talk, bond with family members; read with child daily; teach responsibility in use of money, time, etc.
Describes child’s developmental levels relative to averages
Verbalizes realistic behavior expectations
Lists developmentally appropriate playthings
Discusses discipline vs. punishment, and preventive and positive discipline techniques Commits to using logical consequences for misbehavior
Intends to contact community agencies for assistance
Intends to participate in volunteer activities

Evaluation:

Long-term Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be mailed to past participants.
Indicator: Documentation or testimonies will be given by the participants that will prove that behavior has changed as a result of the program.
Method: One, two, three, four, (etc.) evaluations will be given to discover behavior change.
Timeline: One, two, three, four, (etc.) year evaluations will be administered. Statistics will be studied and submitted to the Campbell County Extension by professional collaborators/agencies/services that will prove social, economic or environmental change has taken place.

Intermediate Outcome: Follow-up evaluations will be sent to participants.
Indicator: A follow-up written evaluation will be mailed to each participant to determine if he/she is practicing what was learned or demonstrated at the program. Participants will answer the evaluation based on what was learned or demonstrated at the program.
Method: A three, four, or six month follow-up evaluation will be mailed out. Teachers and parents will also be asked questions to determine if children are practicing what they learned in the program.
Timeline: A three, four, or six month evaluation will be mailed to participants.

Initial Outcome: End of Program evaluations will be utilized.
Indicator: Written evaluations will be completed by each participant/student at the end of each program. Hands-on evaluations will also be used to evaluate the progress of the participants/students. Participants will answer questions about the program/subject matter that will show that he/she has learned from the class/program.
Method: Written evaluations and hands-on evaluations will be utilized.
Timeline: End of classes/programs.

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Children ages 6-8 and   their parents, grandparents or guardians Project or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods with Mommy and Me Content or Curriculum: Family Mealtime Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   FCS Agent, Horticulture Agent and Assistant Date: Every year – 4th   Thursday of every month February – September (2017-2018) Audience: Court mandated teens and their parents, grandparents or guardians Project or Activity: In the Driver’s Seat program Content or Curriculum: Nurturing Parents Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   FCS Agent, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Highland Heights Police Department   and Campbell County District Court, Judge Karen Thomas Date: 4 times a year (May,   September, December, February) (2017-2018) Audience: Dayton Middle and High School Students Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences Content or Curriculum: U.K. Curriculum-Truth and Consequences Inputs: Middle and High School Students and Teachers, Community drug awareness   agencies and professionals, public and private health organizations Date: Fall 2017 Audience: Pre-schoolers Project or Activity: LEAP Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K. Inputs: Community and faith-based organizations, daycares and schools Date: monthly Sept 2017 - May 2018 Audience: Hosea House Soup Kitchen   and Northern Kentucky Community Action/Faith Pharmacy Project or Activity: Nurturing   Families at Hosea House, Northern Kentucky Community Action and Faith   Pharmacy Content or Curriculum: Home Is Where the Health Is, Nurturing Parents, Blue   to You, Grandparents and Grandchildren Together Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Hosea House, Northern Kentucky   Community Action Commission and Faith Pharmacy Date: Hose House: Every 4th   Monday of every month Northern Kentucky Community Action/Faith Pharmacy:   Every 4th Wednesday of every month (2017-2018) Audience: General public &   Homemakers Project or Activity: Healthy Homemakers Content or Curriculum: UK publications Inputs: Campbell County   Cooperative Extension Service, NKY FCS agents Date: August 21, 2017 and January   24, 2018 Audience:   County youth Project or Activity: Flowerbuds Content or Curriculum: U.K. Curriculum Inputs: Lakeside Commons Educational Gardens, Hort Agent, Hort Technician,   FCS Agent Date: monthly June 2017 – August 2017

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