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 Rowan County Cooperative Extension Service is committed to providing nutrition education programs that provide low income families and individuals with useful, actionable information. The goals of programs are to educate limited resource families with young children and SNAP-Ed clientele to plan nutritious meals on a limited budget, acquire safe food handling practices including improved hand-washing skills, food preparation skills and change shopping, eating, and physical activity behaviors to encourage greater health and reduced risk of chronic diseases related to obesity and overweight. As a result of these programs, 475 people were encouraged to access nutritious foods at local farmer's markets and 1481 youth were taught the basics of making nutritious food choices.
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Rowan county, please click the link.
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