Campbell County CES

Title:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

MAP:

FCS - Making Healthy Lifesyle Choices

Agents Involved:

Rex, Thompson

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes Program (Curriculum)

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Family Mealtime (Curriculum)

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Get Moving Kentucky (Physical Activity Based Programs)

Situation:

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. The obesity rate in Kentucky increased 90 percent over the last 15 years. Thirty percent of individuals in the Commonwealth report no leisure-time physical activity. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and built environments that promote physical inactivity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic. As a result, Kentuckians are dying from heart disease and cancer at higher rates than all Americans and they have a lower life expectancy, 75.5 years, compared to 78 years for Americans. Minorities and individuals residing in Appalachia bear a heavier brunt of the obesity and chronic disease burden. The goal of the Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices Initiative is to reverse these trends by working with various organizations, agencies, and groups to promote the health and wellness in all Kentuckians.

Long-Term Outcomes:

*A decrease in the number of 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 wellbeing of Kentuckians
*Manage and prevent the risk, debilitation, and premature death related to diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and hypertension
*Increase the estimated health savings in dollars for chronic disease

Intermediate Outcomes:

INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES:
*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, pregnancy and breastfeeding and older age
*Practice of physical activity in families and communities and decreased time spent on sedentary behaviors
*Changes related to obesity, physical and healthy eating
*Strengthen community coalitions or partnerships to address obesity, physical inactivity and chronic disease
*Practice healthy lifestyle decision-making that strengthen individual’s ability to cope with normal life stressors

Initial Outcomes:

Changes in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding:
*Healthy lifestyle choices
*Childhood and youth obesity
*Adult weight management
*Healthy aging
*Practice and promotion of daily physical activity
*Reduction of chronic disease

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: 0ne, 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 in a manner that will show   that participants are now practicing what was learned or demonstrated in 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: 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: Children 6-8 years of age and their parents, grandparents or   guardian Project or Activity: Mommy & Me in the Garden and Kitchen Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, Horticulture Assistant and Agent Date: The 4th Thursday of every month February-September 2017-2018 Audience: Brighton Center’s Center for Employment Training (CET) Project or Activity: Success Skills at CET Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time Inputs:   UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent and Brighton Center CET Director and   Instructors Date: 4-6 sessions every year 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: Adults 65 years old and above Project or Activity: Matter of Balance Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance Curriculum Inputs: Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service, Physical Therapist Date: meets weekly for 8 week series, Summer 2017 Audience: Campbell County Diabetes Support Group Project or Activity: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices with Diabetes  Support Group Content or Curriculum: Taking   ownership of your diabetes, SNAP recipes, Plate It Up! Recipes, Making   Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Mealtime curriculum Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   Service FCS Agents, the Campbell County Diabetes Support Group and the   Campbell County Senior Citizen Center and Northern Kentucky Health Department Date: Second Thursday of every   month throughout the year 2017-2018 Audience:   Hosea House Soup Kitchen, Northern Kentucky Community Action and Faith Pharmacy Participants Project or Activity: Making Healthy Choices with Hosea House and Faith Pharmacy Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes, SNAP recipes and Plate It Up! Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension Service FCS Agent, Hosea House, Northern   Kentucky Community Action Commission and Faith Pharmacy Date: Hosea House (Last Monday of every month throughout the year.) Faith Pharmacy (Last Wednesday of every month throughout the year) 2017-2018 Audience:   Potential 12,600 Campbell County Media Central Viewers Project   or Activity: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices on CC Media Central Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension   FCS Agent and Campbell County Media Central Date: April 19, June 15, August 16, October 18, and December 6, 2017 and 10-12 times/yr. throughout the year (2017-2018) Audience:   Food Stamp Participants at the Food Stamp Office   Project   or Activity: Making Healthy Choices with SNAP Participants Content   or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, Family Meal time Inputs:   UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent and Department for Community Based   Services (DCBS) Date: A   new display each month throughout the year 2017-2018 Audience: Campbell County Seniors Project or Activity: Senior Center Enrichment Content or Curriculum: UK publications, HEEL Publications, NIH Publications,   Plate it UP Inputs: Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service, Campbell County Senior   Center Date: Quarterly Classes Each Year Audience:   Pre-schoolers Project or Activity: Flowerbuds Content or Curriculum: LEAP Curriculum from U.K., UK publications in FCS and   Horticulture Inputs: Campbell County Extension Horticulture and FCS areas Date: Monthly June 2017-August 2017 Audience: Campbell County Recorder Readers (17,000) Project or Activity: FCS News Article Content or Curriculum: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agents and Campbell County Community Recorder Newspaper Date: Monthly news articles throughout the year 2017-2018 Audience: St. John’s Lutheran   Church Food Pantry Participants Project or Activity: SNAP   Education for St. John’s Food Pantry Content or Curriculum: NEP and SNAP Curriculum and recipes, Food Preparation,   Accessing Nutritious Foods Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agents and St. John’s Lutheran Church   and USDA Date: Every 2nd Monday   of each month throughout the year (2017-2018)

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