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Floyd County CES

Title:
Proactive Health and Wellbeing for all
MAP:
Making Healthy Lifelong Lifestyle Choices
Agents Involved:
Johnson
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Family Mealtime (Curriculum)
Situation:
Kentucky ranks 3rd highest in the US for physical inactivity. Youth are becoming more inactive at an early age. Adolescence is the second most critical time for nutritious eating, after infancy. Pre-natal and infant nutritional needs form life-long habits, including breast-feeding and research linking bottle fed-babies to obesity in adults. Youth need extra calories to fuel growth spurts. Yet, youth eat many meals away from home (with out proper adult supervision) thus, don’t always eat the most nourishing food. It is an ideal time to focus on what can be done to encourage eating habits that support children, adults and senior populations physical growth, maximize bone density, and prevent chronic diseases which are related to proactive decision making and lifelong physical activity to prevent and/or reduce the incidence of obesity, diabetes,heart disease, cancer and as supported by research brain based disorders impacted by lifelong poor nutrition and health practices.
Long-Term Outcomes:
Chronic lifestyle and nutrition related diseases will be significantly reduced among the population. Substance Abuse among youth and young adults will be diminished and the general population will embrace positive changes in the communities.
Intermediate Outcomes:
Individuals of all ages from infancy to the end of life ages shall make changes in reducing their intake of unhealthy foods, include fruits, vegetables and grains, and dairy as the basis of the dietary intake. Adopting good physical activity and avoidance of use of substances where chemicals harm the body.
Initial Outcomes:
Educational participants, clientele, Extension Homemakers, pre-school children, children, young adults, and seniors shall learn the recommended dietary and physical activity appropriate for themselves and for their families.

Limited resource clientele shall learn to manage and extend the use of Food Stamps, money, and Food Pantry items to improve the nourishment of the family.

Families shall develop menu's planned for meal preparation at home, suit the menus to the budget, and shall develop food preparation, preservation, and cooking skills they aspire to use.
Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Learn and use the guidelines of the USDA and dietary guidelines and myPlate from Extension curricula

Indicator: Number of participants reached

Method: Pre and Post Program Evaluations either written or verbal, show of hands for limited literacy or non-English speaking populations


Timeline: September - June 


Intermediate Outcome: Changes will be made in the preparation, consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low fat dairy in family meals.

Indicator: Percentage of participants making changes in food pattern consumption

Method: Post program evaluations, electronic and written or phone follow up evaluations, testimonials from participants of all ages

Timeline: September - June 


Long-term Outcome: Improved health of citizens in the community, reduction of incidence of substance abuse and unhealthy behaviors.

Indicator: Statistical data

Method: Long term testimonials from program participants, community partners, BRFSS data, Kids-Count data and other reliable sources of supporting sites of outcome based changes

Timeline:

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Youth and Adults

Project or Activity: Simulated Learning Activiy Content or Curriculum:

Inputs: Truth and Consequences: The Choice Is Yours Curriculum, CADA, Allen Central High School, Floyd County Schools, Extension Homemakers, Community partners, volunteers, law enforcement, judicial system, attorneys, coroner, jailer, judges, emergency medical personnel, physicians and/or health partners, parents and grand parents


Date: September - June 


Audience: Adults

Project or Activity: General Nutritional Education Community Based

Content or Curriculum: University of Kentucky Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices, EFNEP, Extension publications and curricula supporting nutritional health and habits for a lifetime, nutrition education programs to SNAP eligible recipients

Inputs: Agent, EFNEP Assistant, Homemaker/FCS Volunteer leaders/Teachers

Date: August - June

Audience: Adults, Extension Homemakers, Family and Consumer Sciences Clientele (Community at Large), youth

Project or Activity: Small Space Gardening for the Home - Family Centered Approach

Content or Curriculum: Extension Plate It Up Ky. Proud Resources and supporting Food Preservation Approved Research-Based Curriculum from the University of Kentucky and/or HES/FCS publications. Learning Lesson for Extension Homemakers and At-Large use in county-based outreach delivered by FCS Agent

Inputs: University Curricula, District FCS Agents, Floyd County Agent, Extension Homemakers, FCS Advisory Council, County residents, Senior Housing Authority, Faith community, merchants, Chamber of Commerce, Farmer's Market, Appalachian Roots Group and other Civic entities

Date: May - June 



Success Stories

Floyd County Family & Consumer Sciences and Community Fights Drug and Alcohol Use in the Teen Community

Author: Andrea Slone

Major Program: Truth and Consequences: The Choice is Yours

The Floyd County Cooperative Extension Service implementedTruth & Consequences: The Choice is Yours, a scenario based role-playactivity designed to help students learn more about the physical, legal,financial, and emotional consequences of substance abuse, for 114 Prestonsburg HighSchool students. 37 community partners and adult volunteers participated in theevent as well. Community partner evaluation data indicates that 75% stronglyagreed that substance abuse by youth is a problem in the co

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Floyd County Improves Health during Winter Months

Author: Andrea Slone

Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (Curriculum)

                In 2018, Floyd County was ranked 112th in health outcomes and 108th in health factors out of the 120 counties in the state of Kentucky. According to the Kentucky Health facts, 36% of Floyd County adults claimed to be in less than good health making it 13% higher than the state average. In efforts to increase health awareness and overall health of the county, the Floyd County Family & Consumer Sciences program developed the online p

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