Thank you for taking the time to join us today Thank you for taking the time to join us today. We greatly appreciate your efforts, especially those connected to supervising program assistants October 2016 NEP Training

Welcome to the NEP Team Lindsay Poore: Lindsay.poore@uky.edu Reimbursements Kaye Hawkins: kaye.Hawkins@uky.edu Travel Kenny Hunter: kehu224@uky.edu Food Systems Specialist Michele West: michele.west@uky.edu Mobile Technology Stephanie Derifield: Stephanie.Derifield@uky.edu Area Nutrition Agent 1. Lindsay, pictured here is now in the position held by Rita May. Rita is working a limited number of hours to assist and train Lindsay. Lindsay is the go to person for reimbursement , grant compliance and reinforcement item questions. 2. Kaye Hawkins is our new staff support. Her efforts include travel, communications and many other things. You may have recently received a message about inventory of NEP computers. 3. Kenny Hunter, pictured here is now the Food System Specialist, working with agents on related policy, system and environmental efforts to support increases in the consumption of fruits and vegetables by limited resource families. Work will include Farm to School, Farmers’ markets, double bucks, farm produce donations to food banks for tax credit, etc. 4. Michele West, Project Coordinator for Mobile Technology Research project. She may contact you for the advisory group and/or focus group locations. 5. Stephanie Derifield, new area agent starting November 1st.

Make a Change (DVDs) Ready, Set…Move Handy Household Items Playing with a Parent Getting Fit While you Sit

2016 Performance Evaluation Process Timeline Questions Agent will review with program assistant between November 17th and December 12th . November 16 NEP notifies Supervising Agents of approval November 17 – December 12 Supervising Agent and Program Assistant review PE, sign, and mail original signed copy to NEP office When all signed forms are received from a district, NEP will send them to DDs for final signatures and returned to NEP office.

Liz Buckner

Participant Garden Survey

COUNTY Garden Survey Form County survey used to collectively report participant outcomes.

Encuesta de Jardineria

New Account number coming soon County SNAP-Ed funds located in KERS 2017 Program Year New Account number coming soon County SNAP-Ed funds located in KERS Reinforcements should arrive earlier Program Assistant Budgets are $1,800 County SNAP-Ed funds will be posted in KERS in a few days. Reinforcements should arrive in January or February.

NEW WebNEERS Behavior Checklist Questions Liz Buckner

NEW WebNEERS Behavior Checklist Questions Added additional options

2017 Program Assistant Evaluation Tool

2017 NEP Performance Appraisal Weighted values remain the same

2017 NEP Performance Appraisal Highlights of …How 2017 will be different from previous year’s performance appraisal. See the scoring tool or scale for these sections will be different. Section A: Youth enrollment; previously number of groups now will be number of students/participants. Percentage of effort remains the same youth 20% and adults 80%. Section C: Increased the range for earning a 4 rating

2017 Rating range remains the same. Professional Improvement plan used when score is 2 or below. District Directors and area agent assist with the process.

New online process for UK travel, TRIP New online process for UK travel, TRIP. Affects program assistants receiving state funds. Fast process with direct deposit in only a few days. Critical to be correct with data entry. Only traveler can make corrections. Complete the form online in myuky. Print documents, scan document and supporting documents such as KERS summary, meeting and activities, etc. Complicated in the beginning, thus very important to participate in training opportunities

Training Dates and Locations Oct 21st Nelson County – Sara Talbott 10:00 am Oct 27th Warren County - Nancy Kelley 9:30am (central time) Oct 28th Franklin County – Sara Talbott 10:00 am Oct 31st Princeton – Nancy Kelley 9:30am (central time) Oct 31st Magoffin County– Amy Singleton 10:00 am Nov 1st Knox County – Amy Singleton 10:00 am Nov 2nd UK Campus - UK Computer Lab- Caroline Durr/Rosie Allen TBA Nov 2nd & Nov 7th – Supervisor Webinars Contact the area agent listed with the site to save your seat ASAP.

Supporting Materials EFNEP PowerPoint with step by step directions SNAP-Ed PowerPoint with step by step directions Military time chart December training on overnight travel

2017 Calendar

Calendar Arrival – end of November

New Calendar Feature – Recipe Cards New for 2017 detachable recipe cards

County Annual Report Success Stories County Data Program Impact Creating NEP county annual reports for each county. Please make sure we have any success stories and/or impact statements you want included.

Contacts County reimbursement and reinforcement items Lindsay Poore: lyndsay.poore@uky.edu Travel Voucher Process Area Agents, Mary Santana and Debra: mary.santana@uky.edu & dcotteri@uky.edu WebNEERS Liz Buckner: elizabeth.buckner@uky.edu KERS Leslie McCammish: leslie.mccammish@uky.edu E-mail TRIP Documents to: Liza Merryman: liza.merryman@uky.edu or Kaye Hawkins: kaye.hawkins@uky.edu