Making Healthy Lifestyle ChoicesPlan of Work

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Lee County CES

Title:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
MAP:
Healthy Living/Healthy Lifestyles
Agents Involved:
Ted Johnson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Health 4-H Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Food Preservation
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Situation:
For years eastern Kentucky has been identified as an unhealthy region in the United States, but also within the state. This proves true in Lee County where the obesity (33.4%), smoking (40.7%), diabetes (12.1%), and physical inactivity (36.3%) rates all hovering above the state rates for each category, with state rates for each category hovering above the national rates. A major area of focus is healthy living- specifically gardening, food preservation, nutrition education, drug education, and healthy relationships (bullying).
Long-Term Outcomes:

A decrease in obesity in the youth, adult, and elderly population in Lee County.

An increase in regular healthy lifestyle choices including increased physical activity, access to appropriate healthcare/screenings, and increase in healthy eating and nutrition.

An increase in physical infrastructure to promote and improve access healthy living and health lifestyle choices.

An increase in use of preventative healthcare concurrent with the decrease of reactive healthcare.

An increase in access to healthy foods.


Intermediate Outcomes:


Increase in practice of healthy eating and nutrition habits.

Increase in the number of households with a garden for fresh fruits and vegetables and increase in quality of those gardens and production skills


Initial Outcomes:

An increase in knowledge, skills and understanding of good nutrition, healthy eating, and appropriate physical activities for every age.

A change in attitudes and opinions around healthy habits and choices.

Increase in skills related to meal preparation and food preservation.

Knowledge and understanding of healthy relationships and interactions.

Gain knowledge in many aspects of home horticulture and gardening.

Participants become more aware of Extensions role in addressing the needs of producing and consuming fresh fruits and vegetables

participants understand procedures of production and processing of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Understand food safety and handling procedures

Understand raised bed gardening


Evaluation:
Long Term Outcome: Decrease in the rate of negative health indicators in Lee County including obesity, diabetes, inactivity, smoking, etc.
Indicator: Local and state data, A decrease in chronic health problems in Lee County, and increase in individuals reporting healthy lifestyle choices and habits.
Method: Observations, surveys, data
Timeline: On-going

Intermediate Outcome: Increase in the practice of healthy decision making in food choices and physical activity level on a regular basis.
Indicator: The number of individuals that adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
Method: Pre-post tests, survey, self-reporting
Timeline: Upon program completion, 1 year follow up after program completion.

Immediate Outcome: Increase in the knowledge and understanding of healthy nutrition, appropriate physical activity, and healthy relationships on a regular basis.
Indicator: The number of individuals that participate in programing related to educating clientele on healthy lifestyles and express increased knowledge.
Method: Pre-post test, survey, self-reporting
Timeline: Immediately following program completion.
Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Middle School Students

Project or Activity: reality Store

Content or Curriculum: The Reality Store Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff and School Personal

Date: Spring 2018


Audience: Adults

Project or Activity: Food Preservation Workshops

Content or Curriculum: FCS Curriculum/Publications

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Summer-Fall 2017


Audience: Adults and Youth

Project or activity : Gardening

Content or Curriculum: Ag. publications

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Spring 2018


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Audience: 4th grade

Project or Activity: Raised Bed Garden Project

Content or Curriculum: Farm to School

Inputs: Extension Staff

Date: Spring 2017


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Audience: K-5 grade

Project and Activity: Raised Bed Garden Project

Content and Curriculum: 4-H and Ag Publications/Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff, Volunteers

Date: Fall 2017

Audience: adults

Project and activity: Raised Bed Gardening

Content and Curriculum: Ag. Curriculum

Inputs: Extension Staff and specialist

Date: Spring 2017



Success Stories

gardening

Author: Ted Johnson

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

     Lee County Kentucky citizens have below average health as compared to the other counties in the state. They rank below the states mean on all health statistical categories. We at the Lee County Extension Office have addressed this problem by educating citizens on production and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables by the use of raised bed gardening.     We have conducted over 20 gardening lessons in the past three years and had over 1000 people visit or o

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Holiday Road Show

Author: Laken Campbell

Major Program: Securing Financial Stability (general)

Holiday Road Show: Stretching your Holiday DollarHolidays are often an exciting time of the year.  However, the holidays can also represent added stress due to holiday spending.  Many individuals, families and households neglect budgeting for holiday spending. To assist individuals in understanding and responding to financial stress resulting from holiday expenses, the Lee County Extension Office hosted the Holiday Road Show: Stretching Your Holiday Dollar financial program for the Hom

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Food Preservation Workshop

Author: Laken Campbell

Major Program: Food Preservation

Food Preservation Workshop10 (female) participants attended the Lee County Food Preservation Workshop. Only a few of the participants had experience with preserving food at home. Participants expressed a desire to learn all the recommended safe ways to preserve foods. Participants canned green beans in the pressure canner, tomatoes and salsa in the boiling water canner, apples and tomatoes and fruit leathers in the dehydrator, and prepared blackberry jam for the freezer and blanched and packaged

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Health

Author: Ted Johnson

Major Program: Home & Consumer Horticulture

Individual’s health is a major problem here in Lee County. The statistics indicate that the health of the citizens in Lee County are among some of the worst in the nation.  To address this issue, we at the Lee County Extension Service have conducted several programs addressing this. Gardening and preservation of foods is among some of the programs we have implemented to address this issue. Over 500 adults and youth have participated in such programs. They have gained knowledge and ski

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