Success Story NEP Assistant Success Story #3 Shelby County's Serenity Center



NEP Assistant Success Story #3 Shelby County's Serenity Center

Author: Elizabeth Maxedon

Planning Unit: Spencer County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Initial Outcome

NEP Assistant Success Story #3

Shelby County's Serenity Center

 Beth Maxedon, Nutrition Education Program Assistant 

1117 Frankfort Road, Shelbyville, KY 40065 

(502)633-4593 

9/5/2020 


On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the novel corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. The entire country was shut down except for declared essential workers. The impact of the pandemic caused a potential loss of income.


The Shelby County's University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agent and Nutrition Education Program Assistant addressed the situation by delivering educational articles & publications to Shelby County's Serenity Center Food Bank. As reported by a food distribution worker, "the food lines increased by 400 people each week."


For the past twenty-five weeks, two hundred publications each week were delivered to the Serenity Center. The packets focused on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on proper hand washing, the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture and Food and Environment's Nutrition Education Program recipes for budget-friendly & healthy food, and the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture and Food and Environment's Cooperative Extension Healthy-At-Home newsletters. The articles helped promote potential behavior changes to benefit the community.  






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