With a pandemic on our hands, finding ways to reach our clientele has taken some planning and preparing.  While most of our programs were hands on the FCS agent and FCS assistant in Henderson County decided to offer packaged program kits weekly to monthly, online videos that were recorded and live videos along with mail outs. Letting individuals know about the program through Facebook post, newsletters, handwritten cards and local radio spots we have gone through over 150 bags each week along with 50 bags a month. The first program was the Get Fit Kentucky where individuals received bands, water bottles and information on the walking challenge through the UK get fit app. We reached over 2000 individuals on Facebook. The next week we offered the cooking through the calendar which included the SNAP calendar with recipes and cooking utensils. The participants were encouraged to post photos of their dishes. We have reached a whole different audience with online participation.   A few had stated that they are cooking through each recipe in the calendar. That week we reached over 3500 individuals on Facebook and listening to radio over 20,000 in the listening area. The next week we did a gardening bag which included gloves, seeds and the gardening calendars. We reached 2700 individuals on this educational kit.  Total we have given out over 3,050 kits. The Facebook page has now 974 people following. Our Facebook page is reaching 2,300 individuals a month.

We have received numerous post stating that participants are so glad that we are offering programs that they can do at home right now and are enjoying sharing them with their family. We will continue to offer educational program with kits, zoom meetings and videos and Facebook Live throughout the first of the year until the pandemic gets better and practicing social distancing. We will be adding a qr code that linking to the evaluations so that participants can tell us what they are learning.