Extension
It Starts With Us
Strengthen Families by Developing Healthy Secure Homes
Nuturing Families and Promoting Healthy Secure Homes
Judy Hetterman, Jessi Williams, & FCS Program Assistant
Nurturing Parenting
Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
Securing Financial Stability (general)
Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Each decision individuals make has an impact on health and safety in the family, community, and environment. Families stability rests with securing and managing their basic human needs of food, clothing, and shelter. On the average, families and individuals spend their household's monthly income the following ways: 30% housing, 15% food, 10% utilities, 17% transportation, 5% clothing, 10% healthcare, and 11% insurance. No one can live in our fast moving, economic based society without knowledge of decision making skills. Families need to be able to develop a strong value system, make wise healthy decisions, and encouraging a supportive environment throughout the life cycle.
-Create safe homes within environments that promote and support the physical and mental well-being of families throughout the life cycle.
-Improve the built and natural environment to increase active and healthy lifespan.
-Youth and adults become more productive members of society through learned life skills and use these skills to better their lives socially and economically.
- Build personal strengths and self control, interpersonal communication, life skills including wise decision making.
-Improved the quality of their life resulting in a stronger family.
-Practice skills to strengthen and sustain relationships.
-Families participate in an activity that improves the built environment.
-Families improve decision making skills for a healthier environment.
-Access the cost savings and/or benefits associated with newly adopted practices.
-Individuals will change knowledge, opinions, skills, and/or aspirations in understanding issues related to decision making that effect the built environment and healthy homes.
-Adults and youth will gain an understanding of life skills to improve their overall quality of life.
-Participants will identify short, medium, and long term personal goals and objectives related to maintaining and improving their family's stability.
-Participants will show increased knowledge and skills related to managing available resources.
-Participants will identify one or more practices that will improve their quality of life.
Initial Outcome: Individuals will change knowledge, opinions, skills, and aspirations in understanding issues related to decision making that effects the built environment and healthy homes.
Indicator: Individuals will identify one or more ways to make their home healthy.
Method: Homemakers reports or end of program survey
Timeline: July thru June
Intermediate Outcome: Access the cost savings and benefits associated with newly adopted practices.
Indicator: Individuals will share practices adopted.
Method:Followup Survey
Timeline: July thru June
Long-term Outcome: Create safe homes within environments that promote and support the physical and mental well-being of families throughout the life cycle.
Indicator: Number of participants reporting changes in their skills to improve the quality of life of their family.
Method: Post Survey
Timeline: July thru June
Audience:Individuals Interested in Sewing
Project or Activity: It's Sew Fine for Home & Family
Content or Curriculum: Developed by District 3 FCS Agents, Master Clothing Volunteers, and Marjorie Baker UK Specialist
Inputs:FCS agents, Program Assistant, Marjorie Baker, & Volunteers
Date:July thru June
Audience: Adults & Youth
Project or Activity: Holiday Trimmings
Content or Curriculum:Developed by Northern Ky FCS Agents
Inputs: FCS Agents, Extension Homemakers, & FCS Program Assistants
Date: September thru December
Audience: 4-H Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Sewing & Needlework Projects
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculums
Inputs: 4-H and FCS Agents & FCS program assistant, Master Clothing Volunteers
Date: July-June
Author: Judith Hetterman
Major Program: Embracing Life as We Age (general)
Depression in adults over 65 is common. Depression can affect physical, emotional, and social well-being. Everyone gets "down in the dumps" or "feels blue" every once in a while. A quilt retreat has been offer for seven years in the fall for 35 - 50 participants from six states. Last fall one of our usual participants ask a friend to come to the retreat. The friend was having problems with depression. No one realized their friend was planning to commit suicide the next week.
Author: Judith Hetterman
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Northern KY Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Agents collaborated with KEHA leaders to offer the Healthy Homemakers series to a total of 113 participants.The program covered the following topics: women and heart disease education before you medicate, home safety, know they self, and stay happy. The follow-up evaluation results as follows:37% of the participants had a cardio vascular screening and 18% followed up with their health care provider.86% had identified stresses in their life
