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Families and Health |
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To strengthen the capacity of families to achieve life-long learning and productivity. |
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Families and Health offers the following programs |
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Program List |
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Heart disease is the #1 cause of death. Women often are unaware of the risks and symptoms, and may not receive immediate care. Love Your Heart Talks aims to reduce heart disease among West Virginia women through informal talks. Community women of all ages are trained to share Love Your Heart Talks with friends, family, neighbors. This personalized, woman-to-woman approach helps women make practical choices to control their heart disease risk factors. |
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The West Virginia 4-H Health Initiative increases the knowledge of health and motivates youth and their families to improve targeted everyday health behaviors. Trained youth 4-H Health Officers conduct hands on health activities at monthly club meetings. Club members set monthly goals to improve health habits and track progress on a 4-H Health Planner. Families receive reinforcing take-home messages. Materials focus on a yearly theme - 2007 dental health, 2008 physical activity, and 2009 eating healthy. Content is adaptable to various settings - clubs, school classrooms, after school programs, and camps. |
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4-H Health Initiative |
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BodyWorks is designed for parents/caregivers and their 9-13 year old children. Using a BodyWorks Toolkit, the program focuses on parents as role models and provides them with hands-on tools to make small, specific behavior changes to prevent obesity and help maintain a healthy weight. Extension faculty and other trained facilitators conduct 90-minute weekly sessions for parents and caregivers. |
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BodyWorks |
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The Family Nutrition Program (FNP) focuses on food, nutrition, and physical activity behaviors of limited-resource families, youth, and adults. Trained instructors in 40 of West Virginia’s 55 counties conduct interactive lessons to improve healthy eating behaviors, expand food safety practices, effectively manage food dollars, and increase physical activity. (Studies on similar programs report that every $1 spent on nutrition and health education saves long-term health care costs between $3.63 and $10.64.) FNP is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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Family Nutrition Program |
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Diabetes is a common, serious and costly disease. Many complications of diabetes can be controlled and even prevented by making lifestyles changes – improved eating habits, increased physical activity, and weight management. The Dining with Diabetes program helps adults make lifestyle changes. It is a free program for those with diabetes and their family members. The series of four classes and a 3-month follow-up includes clinical testing, nutrition information, recipe demonstrations, exercise, and group support. The program is conducted by Extension educators, a health care partner, and community volunteers. |
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Dining with Diabetes |
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The West Virginia Community Educational Outreach Service strengthens individuals and families through continuing education, leadership development and community involvement for the betterment of all. The program provides educational opportunities, resources, and materials to assist in the creation of community networks in 51 of West Virginia’s 55 counties. In existence for over seventy years the organization has affiliation at the local county level with community clubs, state affiliation through a state council, and national affiliation with the National Volunteer Outreach Network, Inc. (NVON) to bring together state service organizations to share information exclusively for education and service in cooperation with the international organization (ACWW) and (CWC-USA). |
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Community Educational Outreach Service |
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In thirteen (13) pilot counties, Extension faculty and key partners assist local communities in building relationship educational training to strengthen individual's skills and knowledge in making important relationship choices and positive methods of family interactions. |
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Healthy Families Healthy Children |
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Extension faculty and staff provide up-to-date food preservation information to consumers and food handlers. They test pressure canners for safety, answer questions, and provide publications about canning, freezing, drying, pickling, and jellies and jams. |
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Food Preservation & Food Safety |
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RAPP supports grandparents and other relatives raising children for members of their families. This collaborative program with WVDHHR and Mission WV, Inc. provides educational materials, sponsors workshops and weekend retreats for kin caregivers and services providers, and refers kin caregivers to local and national social services through a warm line and webpage |
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Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) |
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The Family Times Newsletter is a series of newsletters for parents of kindergarten children to help them gain knowledge and adopt new parenting practices. Each newsletter focuses on a topic of concern to parents and offers specific recommendations for putting the information into practice in their family interactions. |
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Family Times Newsletter |
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Hand washing is a key, often overlooked behavior that is important for food safety, disease prevention, and personal health. Germ City: Clean Hands, Healthy People is an interactive exhibit/demonstration designed to increase awareness of effective hand washing. It consists of classroom education for youths and Extension activities conducted during fairs, festivals, and community events. |
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Germ City |
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A New You: Health for Every Body is based focuses on the principles of pleasurable and healthful eating, physically active living and respect for body-size diversity. It creates a framework to move people away from diets and excessive exercise to a gentler, non-diet approach to active living in a healthy body. This 10-lesson, healthy lifestyles program helps adults gain new attitudes and learn new information and skills to live a life focused on health. . The program may “stand alone,” or it may be an added component to existing programs, such as Dining with Diabetes, the Family Nutrition Program, and Active for Life. |
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A New You: Health for Every Body |
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Active for Life |
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Active for Life is a low-to moderate-intensity strengthening and flexibility exercise program for older adults. The program was designed by West Virginia University Extension Service in consultation with a physical therapist. Active for Life is led by trained community volunteers. Exercises are appropriate for limited mobility adults and may be done while lying down, seated, or standing. |
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School-age youths learn to practice healthy lifestyle behaviors in this highly interactive, energy-packed program. It is offered in youth summer camps in many counties and funded by the Family Nutrition Program. |
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Healthy Camp Challenge |
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Childcare Provider Training |
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To increase the quality of childcare practices, trained Extension faculty teach local courses and workshops. As part of a statewide training cadre with the Department of Education and the Department of Labor, WVU Extension also provides leadership and support for local childcare networks and facilities. |
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A program designed to develop and provide health education materials for seniors in West Virginia. Working together, we can help older West Virginians “Take Charge” of their health and make informed decisions that can help them continue to live at home as they age. |
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Taking Charge |
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