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| 2066 - Nutrition and Food Systems General | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2066.1) | 357 |
Number of individuals who reported eating 4-6 servings of fruits and/or vegetables daily |
| 2066.2) | 682 |
Number of individuals who reported they utilized delivery systems/access points (e.g. farmers’ markets, CSAs, WIC, food pantries) that offer healthy foods |
| 2066.5) | 67 |
Number of individuals who reported increased knowledge, skills, or intentions related to using the nutrition facts label |
| 2066.4) | 172 |
Number of families/caregivers who reported supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they grew or preserved (community or backyard gardens, fishing, hunting, farmers markets) |
| 2066.3) | 3600 |
Dollars in EBT, WIC, or Senior benefits redeemed at farmers’ markets |
Author: Marian Stacy
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The Madison County Backpack Program was designed to provide an underserved community of children with shelf stable snacks as a way of feeding themselves through days that they have no access to food. God’s Outreach in Richmond as well as several local churches pack over one thousand backpacks with enough snack food to last each child one month of non-school days. The Snap-Ed Assistant Senior in Madison County has tried for several years to collaborate with the Backpack Program with no succ
Author: Marian Stacy
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Upon completion of a successful cooking club, Clark Moores Middle School asked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) Assistant Senior in Madison County to lead a Life Skills class for their youth audience. This Life Skills class included: proper measuring, food safety, basic cooking terms and techniques, MyPlate, whole grains, Think Your Drink, and table etiquette as this age group of youth seem to have a great need for these basic skills. There were three boys and th
Author: Karen Grant
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The Madison Middle School Resource Center director contacted the Madison County Cooperative Extension Service to collaborate with Expanded Food and Nutrition Education program assistant. Our families are at a higher risk more than ever for obesity.The Center for Disease Control lists obesity as one of the underlying risk factors for severe consequences from Covid 19. With all the challenges of education this Covid year we formed an educational and fun microwave cooking club. Nutrition less
Author: Jessica Hunley
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
As the Madison County extension agent, I was invited to collaborate with the Powell County agent and several community partners to come and teach for an "Adulting Day" for the Seniors at Powell County High School. The students worked through four rotations or classes for about 45 minutes each where they met two presenters in each group that covered various topics with them including basic nutrition, grocery budgeting, food safety, and basic kitchen skills. We served around 150 st
Author: Marian Stacy
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The COVID 19 outbreak of 2020 was especially hard on the senior population across the country with Kentucky being no exception. During the shut down that started March 2020, the Supplemental Nutrition Education Assistant Senior in Madison County teamed up with the parenting educator also at the Madison County Cooperative Extension Office to provide both Senior Citizens Centers with nutrition information as well as senior appropriate physical activity publications, parenting & caregiver infor
Author: Marian Stacy
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The Supplemental Nutrition Education Assistant Senior (Snap-Ed) at the Madison County Cooperative Extension Service has a good working relationship with several of the teachers at a nearby middle school. For many years the Assist has taught nutrition, life skills, etiquette, and cooking classes for this teacher as part of this schools STARS program. Each year, as a reward or catch-up period, the students are offered “bonus” classes that last nine weeks provided they are doing well in
Author: Marian Stacy
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Middle school is tough for many children, their bodies are changing and growing up is hard. The Farristown Middle School Family Resource Center (FRC) does a great job at staying ahead of some of these difficult transitions for their students. The FRC director contacted the Supplemental Nutrition Education Assistant Senior (Snap-Ed) in Madison County to ask if they could offer an after-school cooking club to their students as well as another middle school. These two middle schools were forced to
