This document summarizes a grant from the CDC to fund obesity prevention projects in 6 Kentucky counties through their cooperative extension services. It provides details on the types of short-term healthy eating and physical activity outcomes expected, the role of extension agents in implementing evidence-based programs, and menu of options for coalition activities to support strategies like education, healthier food retail, and physical activity opportunities. It lists the extension agents for each participating county and related grants awarded to the School of Human Environmental Sciences.

1. Janet S. Kurzynske, Ph.D., R.D.
Professor
College of Agriculture, Food and the
Environment
School of Human Environmental Sciences
Department of Dietetics and Human
Nutrition

3. Based on the National Prevention Strategy Action Plan, U.S. Department of
Health & Human Services

4. Funding for Health Education
Leadership
• CAFÉ, Public Health, & Medicine
• Truth and Consequences
• Taking Ownership of Your Diabetes
• Families on the Move
• Memory Banking
• LEAP (Literacy, Eating and Activity for Preschoolers)
• Blue to You
• The Different Faces of Substance Abuse Conference
• Weight the Reality Series

5. CDC “1416” Grants
•Pilot project funding Cooperative Extension
•Service in six states for obesity prevention
•Targeting high obesity counties
•Focused on policy, systems, and environment

6. For the health of
our communities!

7. Six Kentucky Counties

9. The Grant Can Support
• Evidence-based interventions
• Use of existing County Cooperative Extension
Service offices and community partners
• Interventions aimed at improving physical
activity, nutrition and obesity reduction.

10. Short-Term Healthy Eating and Physical
Activity Outcomes
• Increased knowledge of healthy behaviors
associated with eating and physical activity.
• Increased number or capacity of existing
community coalitions
• Increased number of community-wide of
healthy practices

11. The Extension Agent
Educator, Facilitator, and Catalyst
• Identifies issue needing to be addressed
• Discusses with council or committee to develop ways of
addressing issue
• Plans evidence-based programs that are fun and
educational to help teach participants how to eliminate
the identified issue
• Implements activities to help participants practice what
they have learned
• Helps evaluate project

12. Menu of Options
Coalition choices include activities to support each of
these three strategies:
• Provide community-wide programs to increase
knowledge to increase healthy eating and physical
activity behaviors.
• Increase access to and promote healthier food retail.
• Increase opportunities for physical activity through
joint-use agreements, Safe Routes to School, walk/bike
programs, walkability and other assessments.

13. High Priority Options
• Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
• Improved Healthy Food Access through Food
Retailers
• Physical Activity Environment
• Food and Activity Website and App

14. Clinton County
Christy Nuetzman, FCS Agent

15. Elliott County
Gwenda Adkins, FCS Agent

16. Letcher County
Ann Bradley, FCS Agent

17. Lewis County
Sally Mineer, FCS Agent

18. Logan County
Rachel Hance, FCS Agent

19. Martin County
Eugenia Wilson, FCS Agent

20. Related Grants Awarded to HES
• Rural Poverty Child Nutrition Center
• Regional Nutrition Education and Obesity
Prevention Centers of Excellence – National
Coordinating Center