Success Story21st Century Grant Partnership Teaches Healthy Living
21st Century Grant Partnership Teaches Healthy Living
Author: Stacey Potts
Planning Unit: Daviess County CES
Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Plan of Work: Building Life Skills in Youth
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Daviess County 4-H provided a series of six healthy living based programs for eighteen 3rd -5th grade after school program students at Estes Elementary as a 21st Century grant partner. The school is located in a low-income area next to the Rolling Heights apartments, operated by the Owensboro Housing Authority. The lessons included proper breathing activities and techniques for calming and stress relief, proper hand-washing, stretching exercises and healthy snacking. For healthy snacks the youth had the opportunity to make turkey tortilla roll-ups and strawberry or blueberry yogurt parfaits. By show of hands, approximately 50% of the youth tried something new for each of the healthy snack sessions.
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