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
According to the 2009 U.S. Census, 21% of Nelson County youth live in poverty. Using SNAP-Ed resources, Extension partnered with Communicare to provide nutrition education and meal preparation classes to 45 emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children. Over eight months, children learned about food groups, portion sizes, and proper hand-washing. Nutrition lessons preceded food preparation and eating. Children were given recipes and cooking tools to foster interest in healthy cooking. At the end of the year, youth invited family to a meal they prepared. Communicare employees noticed that children no longer needed to be prompted to wash their hands before and after meals. Parents reported children were willing to help cook, try foods, and choose healthy ingredients.
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Nelson county, please click the link.
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