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
As a community partner in a Carole White grant, the Bullitt County Cooperative Extension agent for Family and Consumer Sciences organized several programs throughout the year at Brooks Elementary School addressing healthy lifestyle choices. Six nutritional education classes were offered to 783 school staff and parents. A physical activity competition was conducted among 20 school staff, who logged 4,199,594 steps over a 45-day period. The winner averaged 19,205 steps a day as she prepared food for the children. More than 150 people attended a family fun night to participate in a physical activity challenge. In a community struggling with obesity, physical activity programs such as these make an incremental change in the sedentary behaviors of both youth and adults.
To see the entire Building Strong Families county profile for Bullitt county, please click the link.
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