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
The Lyon County Cooperative Extension Service is committed to providing nutrition education programs to low income families and individuals. The goals of these programs are to educate families with young children and/or limited resources and SNAP-Ed clientele how to plan nutritious meals while on a limited budget, acquire safe food handling practices such as proper hand-washing techniques, improve food preparation skills, and change eating and physical activity behaviors to encourage better health, while raising awareness of chronic, food-related issues such as diabetes and obesity. As a result of these programs, 989 people were encouraged to access nutritious foods at local farmers markets and 1,536 youth were taught the basics of making nutritious food choices.
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Lyon county, please click the link.
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