The Bullitt County Extension Service, along with the help of the Bullitt County Farm Bureau, Young Farmers and Soil Conservation hosted the annual Youth Farm and Home Safety Day on September 20th at the Bullitt County Extension Office for 5th graders at Mount Washington, Roby, Cedar Grove and Lebanon Junction Elementary Schools.  The purpose of this program was to help youth learn the importance of being cautious of their everyday surroundings.  On this day, we had 495 youth participate.  

Each class went to 10 booths throughout the day, the areas covered were:

-Water Safety

-Bike Safety

-Livestock Safety

-Fire Safety

-Food safety

-Gun Safety

-Tractor Safety

-Electrical Safety

-Nutrition

-Wildlife

Every student was given an evaluation of the program and the following information was recorded:

-96% learned at least one new practice to be safer at home

-74% feel they can help identify an unsafe area quicker

-88% feel comfortable telling their friend and family of how to be safer at home