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2011 Lincoln Parish Profile
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Program Highlights
Family and Consumer Sciences
The LSU AgCenter is combating childhood obesity through Smart Bodies. More than 1,200 students’ weight, height and waist circumference were measured to evaluate the impact of the program. It consists of three components:
- Body Walk Exhibit, a 35–by 45-foot walk-through representing the human body. Students walk through and explore the brain, mouth, stomach, small intestines, heart, lungs, bones, muscles and skin to learn the effects that food has on organs.
- Organ Wise Guys-characters that help children understand physiology and healthy behaviors through books, games, dolls and videos.
- Take 10! in which teachers educate students on nutrition concepts and doing 10 minutes of exercise. Volunteers and school faculty are the success in this program. The Lincoln Health Foundation contributed money for additional resources. Through reassessing measurements, pre-test/ post-test evidence reflected improvement in nutritional knowledge.
4-H Youth Development
Research shows that Lincoln Parish 4-H meets needs identified by youth as essen-tial to their positive development. Through offering 4-H club programming to 22 par-ish school clubs, a parish-wide 4-H Junior Leadership Club and two project clubs in the area of outdoor skills, Lincoln Parish 4-H provides a sense of belonging to youth. Research suggests that belonging may be the most important positive need in the lives of youth. 4-H provides youth the opportunity to have their physical and emo-tional needs met while belonging to a group. The Lincoln Parish 4-H program cur-rently enrolls 823 youth and includes a diverse membership of various races, cul-tural backgrounds and population demographics. The LSU AgCenter provides them with educational presentations, service projects and educational resources.
Agriculture and Natural Resources
The Lincoln Parish ANR program offers quarterly meetings for cattle producers. These meetings give producers the most up-to-date information for making eco-nomical decisions for the cattle operations. Lincoln Parish also has an active Master Gardener program that has approximately 72 graduates who give back the knowl-edge learned in these classes to the community through volunteering in horticulture-related activities. Throughout the year demonstrations, displays and meetings are done, related to water conservation in an effort to keep the public aware of declining groundwater levels of the Sparta Aquifer.
Who we reach:1,525 - Youth (includes 800 4-H members and 22 school 4-H clubs)
2,650 - Adults 1,150 Ag and Natural Resources 1,500 Family and Consumer Sciences
How we reach them:4-H clubs, Class series, School enrichment, Demonstrations, Field days, Workshops, Newsletters, Websites, Publications, and Social media.
Expanding our efforts: 675 Volunteers - 4-H, Master Gardeners, Family and Community, Master Horsemen
Parish FactsLSU AgCenter County Agents provide research-based information on plant, aqua-culture, wildlife and animal enterprises to Lincoln Parish clientele. The 2010 total dol-lar amount from these commodities was: —Plant enterprises - $3,261,827,739
- Aquaculture and wildlife - $575,103,681
- Animal enterprises - $1,684,025,121 Data from the Louisiana Ag Summary Website: LSUAgCenter.com/agsummary
Population - 42,561
Land area (square miles) - 471.38 Persons under 18 years old - 21.3%
Persons 65 years old and over - 12.01%
Median household income - $31,767
Persons below poverty - 23.9%
Local Issues and Plans for this year1. Engage youth using purposeful action steps to create a since of belonging.
- Develop and implement service learning projects.
- Conduct various contests and activities.
- Put youth in leadership positions.
- Work with schools to encourage membership.
2. Promote the wise use of natural resources and protec-tion of the environment.
- Conduct quarterly cattle producer meetings.
- Write news column, Web page content and conduct semi-nars on agriculture practices.
- Conduct farm and home educational visits.
- Conduct Master Gardener classes.
3. Build leaders and good citizens through 4-H youth devel-opment.
- Develop and implement service learning projects throughout the parish.
- Involve community leaders in developing and implementing service projects.
- Evaluate benefits of youth involved in service learning projects.
4. Strengthen families and communities.
- Provide child care provider workshops.
- Conduct parenting classes.
- Provide workshop in child development for youth.
- Conduct money management workshop.
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| Last Updated: 6/7/2011 2:42:08 PM |
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