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Tatevik Markosyan; Catherine Sanders; Alexa Lamm – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2024
New approaches are needed when working in rural communities to identify and communicate holistic evaluation impacts related to community-based health promotion efforts of Cooperative Extension. Specifically, there is a lack of recorded long-term programmatic impacts of these programs, including behavior changes related to consuming nutritious and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Extension Education, Community Programs
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Berg, Alison C.; Taylor, Nancy O.; Brown, Courtney S.; Giraudo, Silvia Q. – Journal of Extension, 2023
Research suggests participating in youth hands-on cooking programs, like those offered by Extension and 4-H, can improve nutrition behaviors and reduce the risk for obesity. We surveyed Georgia Extension professionals (n = 127) to explore factors (e.g., employee characteristics, resources, county demographics) related to offering youth hands-on…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Extension Education, Cooking Instruction, Nutrition
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Lynch, Dana R.; Fuhrman, Nicholas E.; Duncan, Dennis W.; Hanula, Gail M. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Healthy lifestyles education (HLE) is defined as nutrition and physical activity education aimed at controlling or preventing serious health issues. The purpose of the study reported here was to determine knowledge and behaviors of Extension Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) and 4-H agents concerning HLE. Eighty-five and 86% of FACS and 4-H…
Descriptors: Life Style, Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Health Promotion