Boyle County CES

Title:

Home Resource, Financial Business, and Farm Management Education

MAP:

Resource Management for Individuals, Families and Farms

Agents Involved:

A. Bruzek, K. Ragland, A. Sheffield, J. Ray

MAJOR PROGRAM 1:

Farm Management, Economics and Policy

MAJOR PROGRAM 2:

Horticulture, Commercial

MAJOR PROGRAM 3:

Financial Education - General

MAJOR PROGRAM 4:

Family and Consumer Science

Situation:

In the 2019 Boyle County Extension Community Assessment, of the 14 topics ranked at least Important that can be addressed through Extension education and support, six involved resource and financial management issues.  Local farmers and commercial horticulture producers have requested additional assistance to identify markets and improve economic opportunities.  The county's Economic Development Partnership has identified soft skills development in the current and future workforce as a key factor in attracting new jobs.  Families and individuals experiencing job loss and retirement face many decisions to reduce costs and increase resources.  With 16% of the population living at or below the poverty level and almost 20% being of retirement age (US Census 2019 estimates), more than one-third of Boyle Countians can benefit from educational resources to help them better manage their incomes and control spending and debt.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Individuals, families and farm businesses will improve economic well-being.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Clientele will apply knowledge gained to increase income and/or savings while decreasing debt and/or spending.

Clientele will employ improved life skills to increase their earning power.

Clientele will produce and sell agricultural products more efficiently to a broader market of buyers.

Clientele will use their own labor and resources to benefit their lifestyles and financial situations.

Initial Outcomes:

Clientele will identify and discuss financial knowledge and skills presented in programs.

Clientele will plan budgets and set goals for individual, family, and business financial management.

Clientele will explain the role of investing in improving economic well-being.

Clientele will know of additional marketing opportunities for their commercial horticulture and small business products.

Clientele will review best management practices for agricultural commodities to maximize productivity and minimize costs.

Youth will relate income to buying power and practice spending in an educational setting.

Youth will describe life skills that can be learned and improved to benefit earning ability. 

Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Clientele will identify and discuss financial knowledge and skills presented in programs.

Indicator: 4-H FCSCC 4041; Estate Planning 2052; Good Credit Game 2053; Real Skills for Everyday Life 2054; Money Habitudes 2055; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; Commercial Horticulture - Crop Marketing 1053; Farm Management 1081; Agricultural Marketing 1082

Method:  Record of clientele participating in financial education programs; hands-on applications of financial information during programs; verbal reviews of information; in-program activities; post-program evaluations

Timeline: Year-round 

Initial Outcome: Clientele will plan budgets and set goals for individual, family, and business financial management.

Indicator:  Farm Management 1081; Commercial Horticulture 1051; Estate Planning 2052; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; 4-H ANRCC 4021; 

Method:  Record of clientele participating in budgeting and goal-setting programs; in-program application of budgeting and goal setting to personal and business finances; in-program reviews; follow-up consultations on budgets; post-program evaluations

Timeline:  Year-round

Initial Outcome: Clientele will explain the role of investing in improving economic well-being.

Indicator: Securing Financial Stability - General 2056

Method: Record of clientele participating in investment education programs; in-program activities and reviews; connecting clientele with investment resources; post-program evaluation

Timeline:  Year-round

Initial Outcome: Clientele will know of additional marketing opportunities for their commercial horticulture and small business products.

Indicator:  Commercial Horticulture - Crop Marketing 1053; Agricultural Marketing 1082; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056

Method:  Record of clientele participating in educational programs about marketing opportunities including CSA, Farmer’s Market, etc.

Timeline:  Spring through Fall

Initial Outcome: Clientele will review best management practices for agricultural commodities to maximize productivity and minimize costs.

Indicator:  Farm Management 1081; Commercial Horticulture 1051

Method:  Record of commercial producers participating in commodity education programming, soil testing and financial management programs; verbal reviews of information; post-program evaluations.

Timeline:  Year-round

Initial Outcome: Youth will relate income to buying power and practice spending in an educational setting.

Indicator: 4-H FCSCC 4041

Method:  Record of youth participating in Dollars and Sense; in-program spending of allotted income; in-classroom review of information; in-program consultations on wise spending.

Timeline: Spring semester

Initial Outcome: Youth will describe life skills that can be learned and improved to benefit earning ability.

Indicator: 4-H FCSCC 4041; 4-H LCC 4051; 4-H CEACC 4031; 4-H ANRCC 4021

Method: Record of youth participating in Babysitting 101, 4-H projects with entrepreneurial aspects, communications and leadership projects; management of resources in the conduct of 4-H projects; evaluation of performance by judges in competitive settings; completion of records; post-program evaluations.

Timeline:  Year-round

Intermediate Outcome: Clientele will apply knowledge gained to increase income and/or savings while decreasing debt and/or spending.

Indicator: Farm Management 1081; Commercial Horticulture 1051; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; 4-H FCSCC 4041

Method:  Number of clientele implementing goal setting, budgeting, investing, and other financial management practices to improve personal financial well-being; estimated dollars saved or earned due to use of recommended practices; follow up contacts with program participants.

Timeline:  6 months to 20 years

Intermediate Outcome: Clientele will employ improved life skills to increase their earning power.

Indicator:  Estate Planning 2052; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; 4-H FCSCC 4041; 4-H CEACC 4031; 4-H LCC 4051; 

Method:  Number of clientele using communications, soft skills, etc., to obtain jobs or improve their on-the-job performance; personal advancements credited to skills gained through program participation; follow up contacts with program participants

Timeline:  6 months to 20 years

Intermediate Outcome: Clientele will produce and sell agricultural products more efficiently to a broader market of buyers.

Indicator:  Farm Management 1081; Agricultural Marketing 1082; Commercial Horticulture 1051; Commercial Horticulture - Crop Marketing 1053

Method:  Number of commercial producers selling through promoted markets; increases in profit/hd, acre, bu, etc. derived from use of recommended practices; follow-up contacts with program participants

Timeline: 1-2 years

Intermediate Outcome: Clientele will use their own labor and resources to benefit their lifestyles and financial situations.

Indicator:  Home and and Consumer Horticulture 1031; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; 4-H FCSCC 4041

Method:  Number of clientele implementing home gardening, food preservation, home interior decorating, etc., at home or babysitting as a business; follow-up contacts with program participants

Timeline: 6 months to 2 years

Long-term Outcome: Individuals, families and farm businesses will improve economic well-being.

Indicator: Commercial Horticulture 1051; Home and Consumer Horticulture 1031; Farm Management 1081; Securing Financial Stability - General 2056; 4-H YDP 4001; 

Method:  Rising median income from Census data

Timeline: 10-20 years

Learning Opportunities:

Audience:  Youth ages 10-14

Project or Activity:  Babysitting 101

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Babysitting and Home Alone curricula

Inputs:  Week-long babysitting 101 day camp; Extension staff; Extension office; program support, volunteers

Date:  Summer

Audience:  High school FMD youth

Project or Activity:  Life skills lessons in classroom 4-H club

Content or Curriculum:  4-H Entrepreneurism, Reality Store and Professor Popcorn curricula

Inputs: Extension staff; program support

Date:  School year

Audience:  5^th graders in Danville and Boyle County schools

Project or Activity:  Dollars and Sense

Content or Curriculum:  Dollars and Sense curriculum

Inputs:  Volunteers

Date:  Spring

Audience:  Youth ages 9-18

Project or Activity:  4-H project work

Content or Curriculum:  Project curricula

Inputs:  Extension professionals, Extension staff, volunteers, program support, 4-H Council funding, UK specialists, Extension office and facilities

Date:  Year-round

Audience: Farmer's Market

Project or Activity: Marketing basics, sustainable farming techniques

Content or Curriculum: agent courses

Inputs:Extension professionals, Extension staff, program support, KDA, OAK, Extension office and facilities

Date: Year Round

Audience: Individuals and Families

Project or Activity: Financial literacy, family resource management programming

Content or Curriculum: Where does your money go, credit repair, understanding credit

Inputs: CES staff and specialists, CES pubs and resources, state federal and local partners

Date: Year round

Audience:Farmers

Project or Activity:Tax workshop, farm management program

Content or Curriculum:Extension information, state, federal and local partners.

Inputs:Extension specialists, extension agents, local tax experts, and estate planners

Date:Fall

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