Spotlight Series: Carter County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Carter

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Carter County where the FCS agent used the "Sensational Skin" curriculum and the "GLOW Essence" machine to view sun damage not visible with the naked eye in respose to the identification of skin care and sun damage as a top concern by local leaders. The program and activities were designed to inform participancts about strategies for preventing sun damage and what steps to take if sun damage was already present. The lesson was presented to 60 elementary students at a summer program, 70 farm families at a Farm and Home Field Day, 400 high school students, and 3,500 KEHA club members. The youth involved vowed to protect their skin after viewing adult leaders through the "GLOW Essence" machine and women said they would now purchase cosmetics with SPF.

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