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Educational Programs

Addressing Community Needs Via Sessions, Conferences, and Workshops

Cooperative Extension is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices.

The vision of the 91制片厂 Cooperative Extension Program is to be leader in outreach educational programs.

Agricultural and Natural Resource

• Forestry 鈥� addresses urban and rural forestry issues
• Goats and Small Ruminants 鈥� highlights the relevance and importance of goats and small ruminants
• Small Farms 鈥� teaches farmers how to utilize limited resources and maximize farm income
• Integrated Pest Management 鈥� teaches the most cost-effective and environmentally safe approaches to pest management
• Environmental Education 鈥� raises awareness of environmental concerns
• Horticulture 鈥� Emphasizes the art and science of plant cultivation
• Organics 鈥� promotes the advantages of organic crops

Family and Consumer Sciences

• 听Child Development 鈥� addresses physical, social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of children and adolescents
• Parenting 鈥� teaches effective communication and parenting skills
• Grandparents and Relative Caregivers 鈥� targets grandparents and other relatives caring for children
• Nutrition Education and Food Safety 鈥� helps individuals acquire knowledge, skills and behavior changes necessary to maintain nutritionally sound, safe diets.
• Health Education 鈥� addresses individual and community health issues and promotes healthy living
• Gerontology 鈥� highlights factors related to the aging population

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4-H Youth Development

• Citizenship 鈥� promotes community engagement through meaningful youth-adult partnerships
• Healthy Living 鈥� addresses the health of youth so they may lead healthy and productive lives into adulthood
• Science, Engineering and Technology 鈥� exposes youth to hands-on educational programs with hopes of their excelling in scientific and technical fields
• Leadership 鈥� helps youth build leadership skills
• Camp 鈥� day and week-long camps are held throughout the summer and school year

Community Resources and Economic Development

• Small Business Development 鈥� assists with planning and establishing small businesses
• Leadership Development 鈥� helps individuals, groups and communities with leadership development
• Faith-based initiatives 鈥� assists faith-based organizations with community issues
• Land-Ownership Program 鈥� teaches under-represented landowners and farmers effective estate planning and legal issues
• Ropes challenge Course 鈥� promotes leadership and team-building activities using engineered challenge course structures
• Emergency Preparedness 鈥� teaches individuals and communities how to prepare for emergencies and natural disasters
• Community Gardens 鈥� helps individuals, groups, and organizations start and maintain gardens

Using a variety of program delivery strategies, we offer practical and useful research-based programs, resources, and publications in agriculture and natural resource, family and consumer sciences, 4-H youth development, and community resources and economic development.

Specialists on the main campus and county extension agents conduct education sessions, conferences, and workshops to address community needs.