Extension
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Accessing Nutritious Foods
Accessing Nutritious Foods
Rex, Thompson, Stolz, Turner, Vaughn
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
Food Preparation
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Nutrition Education Programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on healthy and safe food preparation methods. Agents, paraprofessionals and volunteers are pivotal in influencing policies, systems, and environments and in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table.
Kentucky population will increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day. More new mothers attempt to breast feed their babies and increase duration of breastfeeding to six weeks or more. Kentuckians improve food management skills and healthy eating habits. Youth will be food secure when school is not in session
People accessing emergency food sources will select from nutrient dense items.
Number who:
• Access more local foods
• Redeem Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program benefit.
• Plant, harvest and preserve produce
• Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits
Number of:
• New mothers utilize community services to support breastfeeding, such as WIC breast pump services
• Youth who access other food sources when not in school
• Households accessing emergency food sources
• Understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual health and financial well-being
• Learn to grow, prepare and preserve food
• Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet
• New mothers and those who support them increase knowledge about the health and economic benefits of breastfeeding
• Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management
• Learn about community support services to increase food security
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.
Project or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods with Mommy and Me
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up! KY Proud Recipes, Food Preparation, Youth Fruit and Vegetable Access, Accessing Nutritious Foods
Inputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS agent and Horticulture agent and Assistant
Date: Every year – 4th Thursday of every month, February – September (2017-2018)Audience: Brighton Center’s Center for Employment Training (CET) students
Project or Activity: Success Skills with CET students
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up! KY Proud, SNAP-ed/NEP curriculum and recipes, Food Preparation, Accessing Nutritious Foods.Inputs:UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agents and CET Director and Instructors.Date: 4-6 classes/year (Fall/Winter) As requested by the CET director and instructors (2017-2018)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 2018Audience: Adults 65 years old and above
Project or Activity: Matter of Balance
Content or Curriculum: Matter of Balance Curriculum, Plate It Up
Inputs: Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service, Physical Therapist
Date: meets weekly for 8 week series, Summer 2017
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 YearAudience: Seniors at the Campbell County Senior Center, The Campbell County Diabetes Support GroupProject or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up! KY Proud Recipes, Accessing Nutritious Foods, and Food preparation, NEP Curriculum and RecipesInputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent, the Northern Kentucky Health Department and the Campbell County Senior Citizen CenterDate: 4-6 times/yr. as requested by the Northern Kentucky Health Department (2017-2018)Audience: participants at the Hosea House Soup Kitchen, Northern Kentucky Community Action and Faith Pharmacy
Project or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods by Linking Arms in our Community
Content or Curriculum: Plate it Up! KY Proud, Youth and Vegetable Access, Accessing Nutritious FoodsInputs: UK Cooperative Extension Service FCS Agent, Hosea House, Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission and Faith Pharmacy.
Date: Hosea House: The last Monday of each month throughout the year. Faith Pharmacy: the last Wednesday of each month throughout the year (2017-2018)Audience: Campbell County Media Central ViewersProject or Activity: Plate it Up! KY Proud, with Ronda RexContent or Curriculum: Plate it Up! KY Proud, SNAP education and recipes, Food Preparation, and Accessing Nutritious FoodsInputs: UK Cooperative Extension FCS Agent and Campbell Count Media CentralDate: April 19, June 15, August 16, October 18, and December 6 and 10/12 times throughout the year (2017-2018)Audience: Food Stamp Participants at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services OfficeProject or Activity: Accessing Nutritious Foods for SNAP participants in Campbell CountyContent or Curriculum: SNAP-education and recipes, Plate It Up!, KY Proud, Food Preparation, Accessing Nutritious FoodsInputs: UK Cooperative Extension Service FCS Agents and SNAP-ed OfficeDate: A new display each month throughout the year (2017-2018)Audience: St. John’s Lutheran Church Food Pantry ParticipantsProject 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 USDADate: Every 2nd Monday of each month throughout the year (2017-2018)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
Author: Ronda Rex
Major Program: Community Engagement
According to Child Poverty & Hunger During the Holidays by Eden Canon, “the latest statistics released by the USDA reveals that there are 3.9 million households in America in which both adults and children are food insecure—which means they have limited or inconsistent access to food which is both nutritious and safe. Hunger during the holidays is not just a soft issue of feeling that every family, no matter how poor, should be able to gather together for a decent holiday m
Author: Kate Thompson
Major Program: Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
In Kentucky, at least one out of every three adults (34.2%) and children (37.1%) are overweight or obese, more than one out of every five Kentuckians (16.8%) and Kentucky children (21.9%) experience food insecurities, and one out of every three Kentuckians (29.8%) are physically inactive (SNAP-Ed, 2017). In Campbell County (population 92,488), adult obesity is 32%. There are 12.9% of the county who are food insecure, 13.2% of the population below poverty and 17.8% children living in poverty. Twe
Author: Kate Thompson
Major Program: Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
Kentucky statistics show that 15.5% of 2-4 year olds from low-income families are obese (CDC, 2013). 42.6% of Kentuckians consume fruit less than one time a day, and 24.9% consume vegetables less than one time daily. Therefore, educational programs, which address the importance of healthy nutrition, are needed. The Campbell County Extension Service addressed healthy eating behaviors through the preschool program- Leap.The Campbell County Cooperative Extension Service collaborated with
Author: Ronda Rex
Major Program: Youth Fruit & Vegetable Access
In Kentucky, at least one out of every three adults (34.2%) and children (37.1%) are overweight or obese, more than one out of every five Kentuckians (16.8%) and Kentucky children (21.9%) experience food insecurities, and one out of every three Kentuckians (29.8%) are physically inactive (SNAP-Ed, 2017). In Campbell County (population 92,488), adult obesity is 32%. There are 12.9% of the county who are food insecure, 13.2% of the population below poverty and 17.8% children living in poverty. Twe
Author: Sherri Farley
Major Program: Health 4-H Core Curriculum
According to a report from The American Policy Youth Forum in Washington, DC in 2006, the importance of programs offered during out-of-school time (such as before-school, after-school, summer, and weekend) cannot be overemphasized. These programs provide youth with opportunities to enrich their lives with diverse, valuable activities that go beyond their classroom experiences. The Campbell County 4-H program conducted 6 one hour sessions with 17 third-fifth graders at Grant’s Lick Elementa
