"Spotlight Series": Robertson County

Our continuing "Spotlight Series": Robertson County

Cooperative Extension Service provides a range of educational programming and activities to support the well-being of Kentuckians. One good example is in Robertson County where 35 Extension Homemakers program learned about risk factors, how to collect family health history data, and prepared their own family health histories through the program, "Family Health History". One participant reported that she not only completed the health history for herself, but she also gathered health history from her mother (who is in a nursing home) and shared the information with her son and daughter-in-law for the benefit of her grandchildren. The Extension Homemaker supplied the daughter-in-law with worksheets and she too is completing a family health history, so that the grandchildren will have diagnostic records from both sides of the family.

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