Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Wayne
Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Wayne County where the Lake Cumberland Cancer Consortium, including Cooperative Extension and other area health professionals, teamed up for a skin cancer prevention campaign. A $1,000 Health Education through Extension Leadership grant purchased sun safety educational display items. Wayne County FCS reached 3,415 youth and adults. A pre and post test of high school students showed that more than one-third did not know that melanoma can be curable if detected early, and that fair complexion red heads and blonds are more at risk. Twenty people from Wayne County were given free skin screenings by a local dermatologist.
For more information about the needs of families in Wayne County and how UK Cooperative Extension is providing services, please click here to see the full Wayne County Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Profile.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Spolight Series: Wayne County
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