Spotlight Series: Ballard County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Ballard

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programing and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Ballard County where various activities were organized to educate the community as to the importance of their food choices. A workshop for Senior Citizen program participants, led by the FCS agent, discussed healthy food choices for their life stage, food safety, and ways to increase physical activity to prevent chronic disease. A booth at a health fair distributed literature on healthy food choices and provided participants sample smart snack choices. The Health Department's Cervical Cancer screening clinic participants were given literature on nutrition and tasted healthy snacks prepared using recipes from the Nutrition Education Program.

For more information about the needs of families in Ballard County and how UK Cooperative Extension is providing services, please click here to see the full Ballard County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Profile