Kentucky Health Facts states that Senior Citizens 65 years of age and above live below the poverty level, at 17% Martin County is higher than the Kentucky State average of 11%. To help combat hunger in this age group, Inez First Baptist Church has a monthly food distribution called Food Drop. 

Martin County Supplemental Nutrition Education Program partnered with Inez First Baptist Food Drop to offer a 7 week program to 12 participants to teach hands on, nutrition education to a limited resource senior audience focused on buying and preparing healthy foods, developing cooking skills, adopting new healthy lifestyle behaviors, food safety, managing SNAP resources, and the importance of physical activity. 

As a result of this program, 100% of participants showed improvement in one or more diet quality indicators, 100% of participants showed improvement in one or more physical activity behaviors, 100% of participants showed improvements in food safety practices, and 100% of participants showed improvements in one or more food resource management practices. In addition, two of the participants are now volunteers to the Supplemental Nutrition Education Assistant in Adult and Youth programs.