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Impact Report

For plan Civil Rights (Santa Fe County)
Date November 4, 2011, 9:59 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report "...And Justice for All" poster is displayed prominently in the County Extension Office. Affirmative action statement and ADA statements have been included in flyers and mailed correspondence developed by the County Extension staff announcing upcoming programs and newsletters A new ICAN nutrition educator was hired based on the EEO/affirmative action hiring guidelines set forth by NMSU. ICAN programming continues to be offered at the Santa Fe WIC office in which over 50% of the participants are spanish-speaking only. Chick embryology lessons were presented to four first grade classes from Ramirez-Thomas Elementary School with the classes consisting of "spanish speaking only" students. This included handouts as well as an in depth display board. A Kitchen Creations Workshop series was offered in March and April 2011 in Santa Fe in which over 50% of the 15 participants were low income households. Five them being male. A Kitchen Creations Workshop series was made available for 18 participants at San Ildefonso Pueblo during the month of December 2010. Four of the participants were male. One workshop with a PowerPoint presentation was given by the Home Economist on "Rules and Regulations of Food Processing" at the Indian Pueblo Small Farm Conference in Albuquerque. We had approx. 11 people attend the workshop The 4-H Home Economist continued to provide Nutrition and Fitness programming once again during the 2010-2011 school year at Cesar Chavez Elementary School which has 2 classes of spanish speaking only students. The 4-H Home Economist targeted previously underserved populations. Communication resulted in implementation of nutrition lessons for the aftercare program at Santo Nino Regional Catholic School and a new robotics curriculum for the sixth graders at Rio Grande School; two schools previously not served. The Agricultual Agent co-presented a slide presentation on Hoophouse Management at New Mexico Pueblos and Community Agriculture Conference in April 2011 geared for pueblo native american and hispanic farmers. An evening presentation on Soil Fertility was presented to seven members of the San Ildefonso Pueblo. All of these participants are involved in the Kitchen Garden project which is a part of the pueblo’s agricultural program. The agent also supported the supported the agricultural program by making recommendations on a regular basis on seed selection, pest control, irrigation and general management of the youth garden. Six participants from a low-income housing community participated and completed a My CD program that was offered by the Home Economist at Santa Fe County Housing on Camino Jacobo. One of the participants was male. The 4-H Home Economist continued the collaborative partnership between Santa Fe County 4-H and Girl Scouts. Two sewing programs and one camp were offered to various age groups. There were a total of 92 participants between the three events.