Hicks Receives State Honors
Johanna Hicks, Hopkins County Household & Group Well being Extension Agent, lately returned from the 2022 Texas Extension Affiliation of Household & Client Sciences state convention with awards in hand. The Wholesome Texas Award was introduced on the TEAFCS Awards ceremony in Decatur, TX, with Extension professionals from throughout the state in attendance. Her management with the Group Well being/Wellness Alliance to conduct classes at summer time scholar day camps led to spectacular outcomes. It began when the standard “Children’ Camp: Enjoyable, Meals, Health” was cancelled because of the COVID pandemic. Nevertheless, the Sulphur Springs ISD developed a summer time day camp in 2020 for college students which has taken place every summer time since then. Further alternatives for Hicks and her collaborators surfaced as Cumby ISD added a camp program to its summer time schedule in 2022. Hicks and her crew jumped in to help in main classes.
Offering schooling on diet, bodily exercise, hydration, water security, solar security, stranger hazard, and bullying, Hicks and representatives from the Texas Division of State Well being Providers, United Healthcare, and Grasp Wellness Volunteers made an actual impression within the lives of these college students. Hicks offered incentive objects to strengthen subjects being taught, together with MyPlate flying discs, sports activities bottles, MyPlate books, toss up balls, and extra. Seven problems with “Coloration Me Wholesome” publication together with recipes, suggestions for wholesome consuming, ideas for incorporating bodily exercise into each day life, and extra had been distributed to folks. Arms-on cooking classes in 2021 and 2022 included the significance of accelerating fruit and vegetable consumption. Additionally they realized about studying a recipe, utilizing the proper measuring utensils, hand hygiene, oven security, and meals security.
Outcomes had been spectacular. 100% of contributors indicated that they plan to drink extra water and fewer sweetened drinks. 100% additionally indicated that they plan to eat breakfast each morning, whereas 88% indicated that they plan to eat extra vegatables and fruits.
Hopkins County Commissioners’ Court docket Honored
The Hopkins County Commissioners’ Court docket obtained recognition on the 2022 Texas Extension Affiliation of Household & Client Sciences state convention. Johanna Hicks, Hopkins County Household & Group Well being Extension Agent, nominated the courtroom resulting from their help and participation in occasions of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. The courtroom, consisting of Choose Robert Newsom, Mickey Barker, Greg Anglin, Wade Bartley, and Joe Value, view Extension as a viable asset to the group and serve on Extension committees and job forces. They attend Extension Management planning conferences, annual Extension Banquet, and 4-H Achievement Banquet as their schedules permit. Choose Newsom additionally assists in recognizing Nationwide 4-H Week by studying a proclamation and giving encouraging phrases to our county’s youth.
Choose Newsom was instrumental in encouraging county workers to participate in Stroll Throughout Texas, an 8-week strolling program to advertise each day bodily exercise, which passed off Fall, 2021. Three county official groups took half within the occasion along with three different native groups. Whole miles logged had been 7,883.44. Within the phrases of Johanna Hicks, “The Hopkins County Commissioners’ Court docket is a shining instance of help, encouragement, and involvement within the work of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. From Extension constructing enhancements to involvement in Stroll Throughout Texas, every commissioner has buoyed the life of labor of Extension in Hopkins County.”
Contributed by Johanna Hicks, B.S., M.Ed. Pictures by Callie Cline.
