Kentucky
Vaping Prevention Program to Empower Kentucky Youth Receives Continued Funding
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 13, 2022) — An revolutionary College of Kentucky program that gives tobacco use prevention providers to youth, households and neighborhood members throughout Kentucky has obtained continued funding from the Kentucky Cupboard for Well being and Household Companies.
The research-based program, often known as #iCANendthetrend, was developed by Melinda Ickes, Ph.D., UK School of Schooling school within the Division of Kinesiology and Well being Promotion, and school college students who served as tobacco-free ambassadors.
Whereas cigarette smoking within the U.S. has declined in recent times, the variety of youth utilizing merchandise akin to electronic-cigarettes (e-cigarettes) continues to be trigger for concern, Ickes stated.
In line with the newest Kentucky information, in 2021, 17% of tenth graders and 24% of twelfth graders surveyed reported previous 30-day use of e-cigarettes or “vaping.” Sadly, prevalence in Kentucky continues to be increased than the nationwide common, reinforcing the necessity for youth prevention efforts, Ickes stated.
“Given a continued dedication to prevention and schooling on this space, college students report higher notion of threat related to vaping than they did a number of years in the past. Nevertheless, they don’t at all times understand the influence on their psychological well being, the danger for dependence, or the place they will go for assist to give up if they’re already utilizing. These merchandise are establishing future generations for a lifetime of well being dangers if we don’t intervene now,” Ickes stated.
The #iCANendthetrend program is a “peer-to-peer” mannequin, connecting elementary (beginning in fourth grade), center, and highschool college students with college-age facilitators. The school college students assist construct consciousness of the risks of e-cigarette use by connecting with the youthful college students. They reveal the associated fee related to nicotine dependence and assist them establish methods they’re focused by the tobacco trade. Integrating skill-building and hands-on actions additionally helps college students to realize refusal and quitting methods.
The #iCANendthetrend program has empowered greater than 10,000 Kentucky youth and has been acknowledged nationally. This system has obtained an amazing constructive response, with over 90% of all college students reached reporting they preferred having school facilitators current and 87% indicating this system was useful in empowering them to forestall vaping amongst their associates or of their faculty.
“Whereas elevated consciousness and data is a crucial first step in lowering youth vaping, we all know that youth involvement in tobacco prevention and management has a widespread influence, together with social norms and environmental adjustments,” Ickes stated.
Thus, this system has grown in recent times to incorporate a Youth Advisory Board, consisting of high-school advocates from throughout Kentucky in addition to a partnership program with undergraduate college students often known as PEERS (Prevention, Schooling, Empowerment & Sources for College students). This system additionally presents skilled growth alternatives to supply schooling and assets for others who wish to assist youth tobacco prevention.
A latest skilled growth session provided to the general public, offered by peer-led school facilitators, included content material on the present e-cigarette panorama, how e-cigarettes influence psychological well being, how faculties can assist college students who’re already utilizing e-cigarettes, dialog tricks to talk about e-cigarettes in addition to methods to construct sustainable efforts in faculties and communities to cut back tobacco use.
Along with well being schooling and outreach efforts, the UK school and college students conduct and share analysis on the effectiveness of prevention and empowerment packages by quite a lot of analysis strategies, akin to focus teams and surveys. A number of of the #iCANendthetrend workforce members might be attending and presenting on the Nationwide Convention on Tobacco or Well being in New Orleans this summer time.
To assist youth who wish to give up, Ickes recommends relations and different mentors in college students’ lives:
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let youth know they will at all times come to them for assist;
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ask what makes it tough for them to give up and speak by methods to assist overcome these challenges; and
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set a constructive instance by being tobacco-free.
To study extra about #iCANendthetrend or to debate partnerships to convey this system to different states, contact Ickes at melinda.ickes@uky.edu or icanendthetrend@uky.edu.
Discover each undergraduate and graduate levels in well being promotion to study extra about careers serving to others dwell wholesome lives. The well being promotion program, housed within the UK School of Schooling Division of Kinesiology and Well being Promotion, focuses on human well being and wellness, program planning in well being schooling and empowering others to guide more healthy lives.
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Chip Trayanum injury: Kentucky RB status updated vs. Tennessee on Thursday report
Kentucky and No. 7 Tennessee will kick off the final month of the season with a matchup against one another on Rocky Top.
With that, the second injury report for the game between the Wildcats and Volunteers is out. That comes after the initial one was released with 22 players designated on Wednesday.
Kentucky is much more concerned health-wise for this game with 17 of the 22, including 10 of those already being out with starters and significant names on both sides of the football among them. From there, four are probable, two are questionable, and one was doubtful.
Tennessee then has five more of their own. That comes with the Vols being off of a bye last weekend. Three of those are already out with two more, Caleb Herring and William Satterwhite, labeled as questionable.
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Here’s how the latest injury report looks for Kentucky and Tennessee following its release:
Thursday Injury Report for Kentucky vs. Tennessee
Kentucky
DB Maxwell Hairston – Out
RB Chip Trayanum – Out
DB Jantzen Dunn – Out
DB Quay’sheed Scott – Out
OLB JJ Weaver – Out
ILB Jayvant Brown – Out
OLB Steven Soles Jr. – Out
DL Darrion Henry-Young – Out
ILB D’Eryk Jackson – Out
OL Gerald Mincey – Out
TE Jordan Dingle – Out
DL Josaih Hayes – Out
DT Deone Walker – Probable
DB DJ Waller Jr. – Probable
DB Nasir Addison – Probable
DL Tavion Gibson – Probable
Tennessee
DB Jourdan Thomas – Out
LB Keenan Pili – Out
LB Edwin Spillman – Out
DL Caleb Herring – Questionable
OL William Satterwhite – Probable
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Early voting underway in Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Thursday is the first day of early voting for the general election in Kentucky.
In Lexington, you can vote early at any public library from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
If you’re outside of Fayette County, you can go to the Secretary of State’s website to see where you can vote in your county. Remember to bring your photo ID.
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There’s a lot new with Kentucky basketball. Here’s early scouting report of 2024-25 Cats
Kentucky basketball: Mark Pope discusses win over Minnesota State
Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope was happy with his team’s second half performance to get the win over Minnesota State in an exhibition game.
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LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball opens the 2024-25 season — and the Mark Pope era — next week, as it welcomes Wright State to town for a 7 p.m. tipoff at Rupp Arena.
The Wildcats held their annual Big Blue Madness event earlier in October, which included a 3-point competition and dunk contest. Then they held a scrimmage session during the repurposed Blue-White event — though only fans in attendance at Memorial Coliseum were able to watch in person, as it wasn’t televised. And now, UK is done with the preseason, routing Division II clubs Kentucky Wesleyan and Minnesota State Mankato in a pair of home exhibitions.
But there’s still plenty to learn about this season’s roster.
The Courier Journal provides insight about this edition of the Wildcats by answering key questions entering the 2024-25 campaign:
Everything. From the scholarship players to the coaches, not a single part of the 2023-24 team is back this season. For that reason, the 2024-25 roster is historic: Per bigbluehistory.net — a statistical database devoted to detailing every aspect of Kentucky’s men’s basketball program — the 2024-25 campaign will be the first time UK has fielded a roster without a returning scholarship player from the previous season. Two seniors from last season, Tre Mitchell and Antonio Reeves, ran out of college eligibility. Three more (Rob Dillingham, Justin Edwards and Reed Sheppard) entered the NBA draft. The other seven scholarship players transferred: Aaron Bradshaw (Ohio State), Jordan Burks (Georgetown), Joey Hart (Ball State) and Ugonna Onyenso (Kansas State) left the SEC, while three ex-Wildcats (Zvonimir Ivišić, Adou Thiero and D.J. Wagner) followed former UK coach John Calipari to his new intraconference gig at Arkansas.
With Calipari gone, Kentucky turned to Pope, an alum and a team captain of “The Untouchables,” the program’s iconic national championship squad of 1995-96.
The dozen scholarship exits wrought 12 scholarship newcomers. Pope and the Wildcats treaded heavily in the transfer portal, adding nine players: guards Koby Brea, Lamont Butler, Kerr Kriisa, Otega Oweh and Jaxson Robinson, forwards Ansley Almonor, Andrew Carr and Amari Williams and center Brandon Garrison. UK also had a three-man signing class composed of Collin Chandler, Trent Noah and Travis Perry.
No one. Other than a pair of walk-ons (Grant Darbyshire and Walker Horn) who played a combined five minutes in 2023-24.
Jaxson Robinson. He’s the only member of UK’s roster to have played for Pope before. (Robinson spent the past two seasons at BYU, Pope’s previous school.) He was the Cougars’ top scorer last season, coming off the bench to average 14.2 points per game on his way to winning the Big 12’s Sixth Man of the Year award and earning an honorable mention nod for the All-Big 12 team. Robinson’s already showcased his top-flight ability offensively, pacing the Wildcats in points in both of their exhibition outings, scoring 19 versus Kentucky Wesleyan and 24 against Minnesota State Mankato. In the latter, every point from Robinson came from distance, sinking eight 3-pointers.
While he’ll likely be the Wildcats’ chief point-getter at the end of the season, don’t expect much of a margin between Nos. 1 and 2 — or perhaps even 1 and 5. Pope and his staff crave balance and sporting multiple scoring options on the floor at all times.
Take note: Four players on BYU’s 2023-24 roster finished with double-digit scoring averages, with three more above 9.0: Robinson (14.2), Fousseyni Traore (10.9), Trevin Knell (10.6), Spencer Johnson (10.3), Richie Saunders (9.6), Noah Waterman (9.5) and Dallin Hall (9.0).
Ansley Almonor. He’s the lowest-ranked transfer to join the program, according to every major recruiting service (Rivals, 247Sports and On3). The same goes for basketball statistician Evan Miyakawa, who not only had Almonor last among UK’s nine transfers but also questioned how quickly the former Fairleigh Dickinson star could adapt to the SEC. “He was (FDU’s) leading scorer last year, and he put up good numbers. … But they don’t play in a great league,” Miyakawa said. “So those sorts of statistics don’t typically translate that well, and my projections take that into account: just the massive talent jump that he’s gonna be taking in terms of teams that he’s playing against.” At UK’s media day in October, Almonor said he’s well aware of his detractors; friends and family pass along critical comments they’ve heard aloud or seen on social media. Now, it’s on Almonor to prove his doubters wrong.
Andrew Carr. A good bet to rank among the top two in points (behind Robinson) and rebounds (alongside center Amari Williams), Carr could have the best statistical profile of any Wildcat come the end of the season. He’s a gifted passer, too. But that’s not all: His 6-foot-10 frame belies his shooting ability, which he showcased throughout the team’s pro day Oct. 7. Carr was arguably the Wildcats’ top player that evening — and put that on display for scouts from all 30 NBA teams. With his size, length, top-tier decision-making and knack for knocking down shots from well beyond the 3-point line, Carr possesses every skill NBA teams desire from big men in modern basketball. If Carr’s play matches his potential, that bodes well for the Wildcats this season.
Seven. As in, seven players on Kentucky’s roster have played 2,000 or more minutes in college. (A hat tip to former Courier Journal UK beat writer Kyle Tucker for that figure, which he unearthed during a deep-dive analysis of the SEC ahead of the 2024-25 season.) Those seven 2,000-plus-minutes Cats are more than any outfit in the now-16-team conference, besting Alabama, Ole Miss and Texas A&M, which each boast six such players.
No, not a single member of UK’s roster has played together before. But the past decade has proven that programs with plenty of experienced veterans win national titles. No SEC club is as seasoned as the Wildcats in terms of college minutes. If the chemistry develops quickly, Kentucky will be a contender in March.
Lamont Butler. His individual stats might not dazzle. He might not go among the 60 picks in next year’s NBA draft. But Butler’s importance to this team’s won’t be judged by such numerical measures. His best attribute: lockdown, 1-on-1 defense. Pope regularly refers to him as the best perimeter defender in college basketball. Up and down Kentucky’s schedule, foes feature ultra-talented guards. Those lead guards take on even greater importance in March Madness; more often than not, teams with the best guard play make the deepest NCAA Tournament runs. Butler flummoxing and frustrating those guards would go a long way toward ensuring UK has a long stay in the Big Dance.
Reach Kentucky men’s basketball and football reporter Ryan Black at rblack@gannett.com and follow him on Twitter at @RyanABlack.
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