Extension
It Starts With Us
Healthy Lifestyles
Healthy Lifestyle/Wellness
Alexander, Hardy, Heisdorffer, Potts, and Clingenpeel
Super Star Chef
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Nutrition and Food Systems General
Active Living and Health Promotions General
Due to the increasing trend of chronic disease and obesity in Kentucky, individuals, families, and communities need tools and environments that support healthy and active lifestyle choices. The Daviess County Extension Council met with the Extension Agents to identify programs to reach the needs of Daviess County.
According to Kentuckyhealthfacts.org (2019), 27% of adults 18 years and older in Daviess County were classified as obese and 67% as overweight, which is equivalent to the state percentage. In addition, 29% of individuals in Daviess County reported lack of physical activity and 39% have hypertension. Increased consumption of unhealthy food, stress, and lack of physical activity are largely responsible for the obesity epidemic among adults and youth.
Maintain or improve health, physical activity
Reduce impact of substance abuse
Access to healthy foods
Eat 1 or more fruit and vegetable a day
Plant a garden
Plan a meal, prepare with healthy alternatives
Be physically active for 30 minutes, 3 days/week
Calculate the cost of negative behaviors
Make 1 or more behavior changes to reduce risk of chronic illnesses
Apply stress management practice
Match foods to MyPlate groups
Name 3 ways to be physically active with no money
Recognize consequences of negative behaviors
Discuss long term risks for health
Describe 2 or more ways to reduce stress
List 3 cool-season vegetable crops to plant in the garden
Initial Outcome: able to complete activities during programs and answer post evaluation questions. Increase in knowledge, continuing to attend programs, using healthy recipes.
Indicator: Able to answer questions and complete activities
Method: Oral feedback, paper surveys and activities
Timeline: July 2022 - 2023
Intermediate Outcome: Increase in consumption of fruits and vegetables, put into practice cooking and food safety skills, increased physical activity. Number of individuals reporting increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, utilizing healthier recipes for meals and meal planning, and the number of people increasing daily or weekly physical activity. Increased number of people with own garden, purchasing produce at farmers market, begin trying to discuss mental health.
Indicator: Use of skills in follow up classes/programs, answer post evaluations
Method: follow-up surveys and evaluations, follow-up programs
Timeline: July 2022 - 2023
Long-term Outcome: Improved Health, and healthy choices. Participants report better health, consume more healthy recipes/foods, complete Steps challenges, open discussions among family about health, continue using resources like diabetes support groups, healthy cooking classes and steps challenges, continue gardening and help others.
Indicator: Improved overall health
Method: Observations, inquiry
Timeline: July 2022 - 2023
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Steps Challenge and Cooking Classes
Content or Curriculum: Dining with Diabetes, Plate it Up KY Proud, FitBlue App
Inputs: FCS Agent, SNAP Assistant, 4-H Agents
Date: 2022-2023
Audience: Adults with Diabetes
Project or Activity: Diabetes Support Group
Content or Curriculum: Dining with Diabetes, Hospital/Healthpark Diabetes Educator Resources
Inputs: FCS Agent, Diabetes Educator, Healthy Horizons Health Coalition
Date: 2022-2023
Audience: Youth ages 9-15
Project or Activity: Super Star Chef
Content or Curriculum: Super Star Chef Curriculum, SNAP handouts
Inputs: FCS Agents, 4-H Agents, SNAP Assistant
Date: Summer 2022
Audience: Preschool and Kindergarten Age Youth; Youth ages 9-18
Project or Activity: Introduction of various healthy food and snack choices
Content or Curriculum: LEAP (Literacy, Eating, Activity for Primary Youth Health); Healthy Choices monthly bulletin; MyPlate; Better Bites/Snack Strong Program; 4-H Choose Health; 4-H Teen Cuisine
Inputs: FCS Agent, SNAP Assistant, 4-H Agents, Program Assistant, Extension Volunteers
Date: 2022-2023
Audience: Owensboro Regional Recovery Residents
Project or Activity: Raised Bed Gardening
Content or Curriculum: Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky publication
Inputs: Extension Agent
Date: Summer-Fall 2022, Spring-Summer 2023
Audience: General Public
Project or Activity: Home Vegetable Gardening Topics
Content or Curriculum: Home Vegetable Gardening in Kentucky publication
Inputs: Extension Agent, Extension Master Gardeners, Seed Library at the Daviess County Public Library
Date: Summer 2022 and February-May 2023
Audience: Farm Families
Project or Activity: Farm Wellness Dinner Theater, mental health education
Content or Curriculum: UKHealthcare dinner theater curriculum
Inputs: Dr. Deborah Reed, Extension Specialists
Date: 2022-2023
Audience: General Public
Project or Activity: Grab and Go Kits
Content or Curriculum: UK Extension Publications, Fitblue app, SNAP resources and recipes, PIU recipe and information, Moneywise, Gardening information
Inputs: Extension Agents, SNAP Assistant,
Date: 2022-2023
Author: Sharayha Clingenpeel
Major Program: Super Star Chef
In June, the NEP Super Star Chef Camp was offered to all of 4-H. The Director of Programs at the Boys and Girls Club saw this program and asked if we could offer it to Boys and Girls Club members. The Daviess County FCS Agent, All Areas Program Assistant, and one of the 4-H Agents set up a camp in July just for Boys and Girls Club members. Eleven youth were transported to the Daviess County Extension Office to participate in this three-day camp. Prior to the NEP Super Star Chef Camp, 9% of youth
Author: Stacey Potts
Major Program: Health
Unintentional injury, while declining, remains the leading cause of death among children ages 19 and under. (Source: Safekids.org) To raise awareness and demonstrate techniques children can use to prevent unintentional injury, the Daviess County Cooperative Extension Service applied for and received a grant from the Progressive Agriculture Foundation to host a Progressive Agriculture Youth Safety Day. The grant provided access to training, along with educational and planning ma
Author: Katherine Alexander
Major Program: Food Preparation and Preservation
Daviess County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent offered food preservation workshops for a total of thirty-four participants. Two programs were held at two local churches at the request of some of their members. The third program was held at the Daviess County ExtensionOffice.One hundred percent of participants identified research-based methods of home food preservation as a result of the program. One hundred percent of participants differentiated between high and low acid foods, can
Author: Katherine Alexander
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The Daviess County Extension Service and Nutrition Education Program has an ongoing partnership with a local radio station, WBKR, 92.5, to have a monthly segment on the morning show. During the segment, the monthly SNAP calendar recipe is highlighted, discussed and taste tested by the radio Disc Jockey’s. The Daviess County Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agent filled in for the monthly segment from July to February, in the absence of an NEP assistant. Our new NEP assistan
Author: Sharayha Clingenpeel
Major Program: Substance Use and Mental Health – 4-H Youth Development
After a meeting with the new Youth Service Center Coordinator at a local middle school, several programs were listed to be of interest to bring into the school. With more discussion, vaping moved its way to the top of the list as being a major problem within the school which needed to be addressed. According to the 2019 study done by the National Institute on Health (NIH), “17.6% of eighth grades have vaped in the past year.” The American Lung Association put out this information: &l
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy
In 2021, 17,466 Kentuckians age 12 and older were admitted to drug and alcohol substance use centers, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This substance-use epidemic touches all areas of the Commonwealth, and treatment programs use creative, research-based approaches to assist those impacted.The Daviess County Extension Agent for Horticulture partnered on a therapeutic garden with Owensboro Regional Recovery, a Recovery Kentucky men’s
