Author: Elijah Wilson
Major Program: Community Strategic Planning
Extension Agents are informed leaders in the community and can add value to planning efforts on a wide range of diverse topics. The active community involvement of Extension Agents coupled with ongoing volunteer development and leadership programs, helps communities to increase social capitol and the capacity to address challenges and to develop community assets. Extension Agents add value and help to maximize the positive impact of public and private available resources. As part of
Author: Shad Baker
Only precious few projects can claim humble origins with large, unanticipated outcomes. Twenty-two years ago, the UK Cooperative Extension Service helped launch a simple footpath along Pine Mountain. At the time, the thought was that it would help showcase the region and serve as a nature-based tourism catalyst. With the project recently achieving a 60-mile milestone by connecting the Breaks Interstate Park in Pike County to the Kingdom Come State Park in Letcher and Harlan Counties, it seemed f
Author: Roberta Dwyer
With a federal grant, a team of University of Kentucky Extension professionals (Roberta Dwyer, Andrea Higdon, Melissa Morgan, Kandice Williams) leads a group developing an exercise for local emergency managers. LADDERS is a Local Approach to Discussion-Based Disaster Exercises and Readiness that is geared towards pets, livestock and disaster preparedness. This disaster preparedness game helps local emergency managers and animal stakeholders work through real-world scenarios with the goal of appl
Author: Daniel Kahl
The Bourbon County Economic Development Authority connected with UK Extension through CEDIK to facilitate an update of their county economic development plan. Dan Kahl, Extension Faculty in Community Leadership and Development and Alison Davis, Professor of Agricultural Economics, worked with the County EDA Board to develop a public engagement strategy to encourage broad community involvement in the development and adoption of a 5 year plan. The devised plan included hosting a series of public m
