GOVERNMENTAL ENGAGEMENT

DELIVERABLES

• Successfully advocated for federal funding included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES)
• Successfully advocated for FY 2021 state funding before KY General Assembly
• Provided Institutional Review Board (IRB) webinar training to agriculture extension staff
• Participate in CHFS long-term planning sessions for COVID-19 program mitigation

CHALLENGES

• Access to database of research data
• Banner system training for new Title II staffer
• Transition of online programming for land-grant stakeholders
• Transition of meetings with external stakeholders to online formats

LONG-TERM OPPORTUNITIES

• Economic development expansion through federal funding
• oList of needs including infrastructre
• oBuild relationships with key federal and state agencies
• Development of online tutorials for small farmers • Lobby for increase of federal funding to Kentucky State University

• Lobby for increase of federal funding to Kentucky State University
• oIncrease for Kentucky State University research funding and expansion of research grant portfolio
• oExpanded flexibility of Title III funding

PROBLEM SOLVED

• Kentucky State University launched KSU Healthy Food Initiative: Helping in Uncertain Times. This initiative seeks to provide access to healthy foods through educational opportunities in nutrition, producing your own food, and job training/scholarships with an emphasis on assisting socially disadvantaged and limited resource individuals. Specifically, the initiative will provide:
• oNutritional programing important to health and wellness issues and financial planning
• oInformation on how to grow food safely to help feed yourself and your family
• oTraining on how to find positions in the agricultural industry and assistance in applying for the 1890 Scholarships Program
• oProvide produce from demonstration plots for a number of food shelves, faith-based partners, and non-profit organizations helping stakeholders

THOROBRED STRONG