Extension
It Starts With Us
2023 4-H Health and Wellness Programs
Thriving Individuals, Strong Families
Calyn Colston
Health
Leadership
The Youth in our community are becoming less involved with outdoor activities and more involved with video games, social media programs and coding. Although science and technology are of a huge importance in our youth's culture. It is still vitally important that we encourage proper health and wellness management.
Long term, 4-H participants will be productive in health and wellness management. While participating in community runs/walks, farmers markets and health and wellness programs. They will become active volunteers and carry leaderships roles within 4-H and our community.
-Implementing health and wellness clubs
-4-H youth assume leadership roles in clubs.
-4-H youth receive recognition from 4-H Achievement Program.
-Volunteers teach 4-H project subject matter.
-Volunteers are recruiting new volunteers.
-4-H youth help market the 4-H program.
-Volunteers will take on leadership roles outside their clubs.
-Apply physical activity to their daily routine.
-Access more local food sources.
-Plant, harvest and preserve their own produce from home gardens.
-Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits
Initial Outcome: Change in awareness, knowledge, opinions, skills, and attitudes needed to make informed choices regarding healthy lifestyle choices
Indicator: Number of individuals who experience a change in knowledge, opinions, skills, or aspirations regarding the safe storage, handling, or preparation of food (safe preservation techniques, hand washing, following time and temperature guidelines).
Method: One on One Communication
Timeline: All year data collection
Audience: Youth
Project/Activity: 4-H Babysitting Day Camp
Content/Curriculum: 4-H Babysitting Curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agent, volunteers
Date: Annually each program year
Audience: Youth
Project/Activity: In-school club lesson: Where Your Food Comes From
Content/Curriculum: Health/Ag, Acres & Adventures, The Pizza Farm
Inputs: 4-H Agent
Date: Annually each program year
Audience: Youth
Project/Activity: Cooking Club
Content/Curriculum: NEP calendars, NEP Recipes, Ky Farm to School, Literacy, Eating & Activity for Primary Youth Health (LEAP)
Inputs: Volunteers, program assistants
Date: Annually each program year
Author: Calyn Colston
Major Program: Health
There around 1500 deaths every year in the United States due to ATV accidents. Kentucky is the fourth highest state for ATV related deaths in the country. Calloway county is a farming community and there is a lot of ATV use in our area. For these reasons, Calloway 4-H partnered with our local conservation district to supply ATV safety instruction to all 187 10th graders in our county high school. Almost all participants had ridden on and ATV at some point in their life; many had ridden with
Author: Calyn Colston
Major Program: Camping
On May 26, 2024 severe storms came through Western KY leaving major damage to West KY 4-H Camp. Due to losing power to camp and all of the food spoiling, our camping week was postponed. We had a lot of disappointed campers, so to make it up to them, all counties in the Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Graves, and Hickman camping group decided to do something fun the week camp was supposed to be so our campers still had the chance to experience camp magic that week. Calloway and Graves counties par
