Welcome to Kentucky Family Policy

This blog is dedicated to examining issues facing the Commonwealth of Kentucky and providing a nonpartisan, family perspective on public policy making. We hope to provide a forum for Kentuckians to review and discuss current legislative actions and the issues such actions are attempting to address. The opinions expressed herein belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Kentucky, its affiliates, or its representatives.

What the authors of this blog will contribute:
1) Summarize current state, national, and international research related to topics relevant to current legilative actions.
2) Describe Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service programs and activities currently addressing issues related to legilative actions in the various counties.
3) Provide expert commentaries via podcasts and videocasts on issues relevant to current legilative actions.

Please see "Priority Bills" section on the right for a short list of the most current legislative actions relevant to the family focus of this blog

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Spotlight Series: Clinton County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Clinton

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Clinton County where Extension Service partnered with other community agencies to offer two healthy eating programs to address local health concerns. The first, “Healthy Holiday Eating,” offered information on adapting recipes, holiday menu shopping tips, and samples of healthy holiday foods. The second, a healthy breakfast program, provided breakfast dishes for the participants to sample and distributed educational goody bags filled with healthy breakfast recipes, physical activity tips, diabetes information, a 5-A-Day Kids Cookbook, and other healthy eating incentives.

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

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