1. 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

2. Welcome to the NEP Team Lindsay Poore: Lindsay.poore@uky.edu
Reimbursements
Kaye Hawkins:
Travel
Kenny Hunter:
Food Systems Specialist
Michele West:
Mobile Technology
Stephanie Derifield:
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.

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

4. 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.

5. Liz Buckner

6. Participant Garden Survey

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

8. Encuesta de Jardineria

9. 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.

10. NEW WebNEERS Behavior Checklist Questions
Liz Buckner

11. NEW WebNEERS Behavior Checklist Questions
Added additional options

12. 2017 Program Assistant Evaluation Tool

13. 2017 NEP Performance Appraisal
Weighted values remain the same

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 2017 Calendar

20. Calendar Arrival – end of November

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

22. 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.

23. Contacts County reimbursement and reinforcement items
Lindsay Poore:
Travel Voucher Process
Area Agents, Mary Santana and Debra: &
WebNEERS
Liz Buckner:
KERS
Leslie McCammish:
TRIP Documents to:
Liza Merryman: or
Kaye Hawkins: