Author: Nancy Owens
Planning Unit: Allen County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Outcome: Long-Term Outcome
Allen County, Kentucky enrolls 3,090 students in their school system. In late October 2021 due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning was put on hold. The Allen County Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program Assistant and the Food and Consumer Science Agent determined a way to continue to reach out to the children in our county. We utilized the healthy at home newsletters and the Chop Chop books which included coloring sheets for the younger kids, word search puzzles for the older kids and the parents, and always several healthy kid-friendly recipes.
We were able to continue to educate the children of our county by providing this resource for 85% of the children enrolled in Allen County schools. The schools were glad to have these newsletters to provide a healthy activity to include with the lunches served to the children of our county. So each time a new Chop Chop book arrived it was then sent out to the youth in Allen County
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