Harrison County Health and Human Sciences

EMPOWER ME TO BE CLUTTER FREE

Clutter is a disordered collection of things that impedes movement or reduces effectiveness. Empower Me to Be Clutter Free is an educations program that can be offered in one, two, or three sessions, either in-person or online. The sessions are as follows:

• Session 1 – Provides de-cluttering strategies and discusses the emotional barriers that often prevents us from letting go of our things.
• Session 2 – Addresses paper clutter.
• Session 3 – Discusses how to store your things so that you can maintain the order you’ve created in your home or office. 

All sessions last approximately one hour.

Walk with Ease

Walk with Ease is an evidence-based program that was developed by the Arthritis Foundation. If you can be on your feet for 10 minutes without increased pain, you can have success with Walk With Ease.

Purdue Extension wants to help you increase your physical activity. No need to worry about finding time to attend a program—this one is done completely via email!

Walking is an easy way to start and maintain a physically active lifestyle. Walking is accessible to almost anyone, does not require specific skills or abilities to perform, and can be done alone or with others. Physical inactivity is directly related to the prevalence of adult and childhood obesity. Participation in regular physical activity, like walking, decreases the risk of coronary heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, obesity, breast and colon cancers, and falls in older adults.

Get WalkIN’ helps to promote and increase physical activity among adults simply by walking more. This unique program is entirely e-mail based. Over a period of 12 weeks, you will receive 16 e-mail messages from Purdue Extension containing credible and useful information about the health benefits of walking, how to overcome barriers, principles of self-efficacy, social support, goal setting, walking locations, and relapse prevention.

Let us help motivate and encourage you to get on your feet! This program helps participants make simple changes to their daily routine to get in more steps—and on their way to better overall health and well-being.

A MATTER OF BALANCE

Seeds of Hope

This program discusses the parallels of caring for plants and caring for ourselves as each participant (adults and youth!) plants their own tomato seeds, and provided them with a wealth of resources on caring for themselves and their seeds, how to harvest the tomatoes, store them, and use them in recipes provided.

Dining with Diabetes

Diabetes adversely impacts the lives of over 10 percent of adults in Indiana dealing with this chronic condition. People with diabetes may experience financial struggles due to higher healthcare costs and are at increased risk for developing long-term health problems. Dining with Diabetes is a cooking school that offers a practical approach to eating well for those with type 2 diabetes and their caregivers. The program consists of four sessions and a reunion. Program topics include:

• planning meals and snacks with delicious and healthy recipes
• cooking demonstrations and food sampling
• motivation and support — connect with others who are living with diabetes
• ideas for being more active
• an understanding of how diabetes affects your overall health

Meal Prepping 101: Prep Now, eat Later

Learn meal prepping skills, shop the ingredients each week, and then bring them to the Purdue Extension office on the evening of the event. Together, we will meal prep three delicious meals (6-8 servings each) for your family using a Master Recipe concept. There will also be leftover Master Recipe for you to use as you’d like!

Purdue Extension will supply everything else you need - bags, disposable containers, cutting boards, utensils, & designated pantry items

A detailed grocery shopping list will be provided and reviewed at the end of each session in preparation for the following session.

What To Bring: The ingredients listed on the grocery lists provided each session for the recipes and a cooler to take all your meals home!

Optional: One partner (18+ years) to help prep the meals you’ll make and take home to share.

Cooking with Herbs and Spices

Learn how to use herbs and spices to season your food, make things a little more interesting, and give you a new take on some of the old standbys. You will also take home a guide to help you create your own salt-free spice blends at home.

Mixing It Up With Smoothies

Come learn about smoothies...Take home recipes, sample some delicious recipes, learn about the health benefits of smoothies.

COOKING UNDER PRESSURE

The new Electric Programmable Pressure Cookers (EPPC) are a very popular appliance in home kitchens. This small kitchen appliance is a versatile multi-cooker that can do the job of a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, steamer, and more, and also saves you counter space and money. If you would like to learn more about the features, the benefits, how to safely operate, and sources of recipes – because you are considering a purchase OR you have one but haven’t taken it out of the box – then this class is for you!

Eat Smart Live Strong

Are you interested in living a heart-healthy lifestyle? Are you looking for more ways to incorporate fruits and vegetables, with food availability and costs also on your mind?

"Eat Smart, Live Strong," offered by the Harrison County Purdue Extension Office, aims to teach participants how to read nutrition labels for healthy outcomes, increase your fruits and vegetables, and engage in light physical activity (sitting and/or standing, using the back of a chair, as able).A low sodium food demonstration and sample will also be offered.

SMALL STEPS TO A HEALTHIER DIET

Are you looking to make small, manageable changes to improve your diet and overall health?

"Small Steps To A Healthier Diet!" is a FREE class that's open to the public.

Topics will include nutrition label basics, healthy ingredient substitutions, a food demonstration with sample, and more!

This class better equips each person to:

• Identify primary components of food labeling
• Interpret and understand marketing label claims
• Understand how to make informed food decisions

Food labels can be confusing, but participants are able to feel more like “label experts” by the end of the sessions!

Preserve It Now, Enjoy It Later:

Pressure Canning

Join Purdue Extension Master Home Food Preservation instructors to learn the basics of pressure canning through education and a hands-on workshop. Participants will prepare and process a recipe to take home.

Preserve It Now, Enjoy It Later:

Water Bath Canning

Join Purdue Extension Master Home Food Preservation instructors to learn the basics of boiling water bath canning through education and a hands-on workshop. Participants will prepare and process a recipe to take home.

What is ServSafe?

Using the National Restaurant Association’s Serv Safe ® curriculum and partnering with the Indiana Restaurant Association, hundreds of food service employees are certified or re-certified in food handler certification annually in Indiana.Serv Safe ® training and certification sets the standard in food safety with the most up-to-date and relevant information. It brings together the current best practices to meet the industry’s changing needs. Participants in the training’s stay engaged, retain the information better, and understand how to apply it. 

For upcoming ServSafe event dates, please go to https://www.purdue.edu/servsafe/workshops 

Pressure Canner Testing

Purdue Extension Harrison County now offers Pressure Canning Gauge Testing.
*Dial gauges only— call our office if you need guidance with weighted gauges*

To ensure that your food is canned safely and properly, get your gauge tested EVERY YEAR.
Call our office to schedule an appointment!

Bring your canner lid with gauge to the
Extension Office at 247 Atwood Street, Corydon.

Testing cost is $5.00. Call 812-738-4236.