complex interplay between individuals, communities, and the greater society, requiring responses that account for that complexity (Delind, 1986). Both models draw on other socio-ecological models (Atkiss et al., 2011; Bronfenbrener, 1994). Both identify current programmatic endeavors with respect to health, put them in the socio-ecological systems and contexts in which individuals live, and encourage Extension personnel to engage in policy and systems change. To illustrate systems embedded within systems, we created our Farm and Farm Family Risk and Resilience Socio-Ecological Model, previously introduced as Figure 5 (page 50). By changing environments and systems some stressors can be prevented and many can be mitigated. Points of intervention can be identified when a situation analysis reveals risks and opportunities to build resilience of farmers, farm families and farming systems.
The Farm and Family Risk and Resilience Guide for Extension Professionals eFieldbook can strengthen programming decisions and the likelihood of achieving multiple outcomes.
R I S K AN D R E S I L I E N C E E D U C A T I ON A L LOG I C MO D E L S
The Integrated Risk and Resilience Extension Framework for Health and Wellness of Farms and Farming Populations provides the basis for logic models for programming with farmers and farm families, other professionals, and stakeholders. The logic models we created are located in the appendices of this guide. They are also available at https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/canr/cooperative-extension/personal- economic-development/agribusiness/ The Framework quickly captures the organized whole and illustrates that farm and family risk and resilience is more than the sum of its parts. It does not show learning, action/behavioral change or conditional outcomes, or how they can be measured. For those outcomes, we created three logic models – a tool frequently used by Cooperative Extension to show the relationship of inputs to actions and outcomes. The three logic models are for three different targeted audiences:
1. Professionals who support farms and the farming population
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Farmers, Farm Families, Farm Workers
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Stakeholders
Logic Model 1. This logic model targets agriculture, finance, family, and health professionals who support the farming populations and is in Appendix A . This logic model can guide decision-making and measure the impact of professional development programs intended to increase awareness of challenges experienced by the farming population; increase understanding of research that supports an integrated risk and resilience; and increase capacity to apply principles and confidence to conduct the programming. It can also serve as a basis for proposals for funding requests.
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