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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu

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Craig Wood, Ph.D
Acting Associate Dean & Director
UK Cooperative Extension Service

S-107 Ag. Science Center North Lexington, KY 40546-0091

+1 (859) 257-4302

craig.wood@uky.edu




Fiscal Year:
Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025


Success StoryJob Corp



Job Corp

Author: Vanessa Harris

Planning Unit: Menifee County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Initial Outcome

                                                   JOB CORP

 

Job Corps’ mission is to educate and train highly motivated young people for successful careers in the nation’s fastest-growing industries. At Frenchburg Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, they support the Job Corps program’s mission to teach eligible young people the skills they need to become employable and independent and place them in meaningful jobs or further education and skills for independent living.

The Menifee County SNAP-ED Assistant partnered with the Frenchburg Job Corp’s Vocational Development Specialist to present seven lessons from the Healthy Choices for Every Body curriculum to twelve students. Five of the twelve participants showed 42% improvement in one or more diet quality indicators. Such as eating fruits, vegetables, red and orange vegetables, dark green vegetables, drinking less regular soda, drinking less fruit punch, fruit drinks, sweet tea, or sports drinks, and cooking dinner. 






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