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Jessica Smith; Habiba Nur; Martha Archuleta; Mateja R. Savoie-Roskos; Celina Wille; Casey Coombs; Heidi J. Wengreen – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
Nutrition education can improve nutrition and health for refugees. Extension program directors providing nutrition education to refugees were surveyed regarding successful program techniques, program challenges, and both the barriers refugees face and the strengths they possess concerning healthy eating. Researchers used grounded theory to explore…
Descriptors: Refugees, Nutrition Instruction, Extension Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
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Karen L. Franck; Janet Fox; Heather Sedges; Matthew Devereaux – Journal of Extension, 2024
Farmers face unique occupational and interpersonal stressors that increase risk for poor physical and mental health outcomes. To educate farmers and their families about these risks, one state's Family and Consumer Sciences faculty partnered with Agriculture and Natural Resources faculty with input from county agents to develop a series of online…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Education, Family (Sociological Unit), Health
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Kristin Riggsbee; Alexandra Nussbaumer Gardner; Elizabeth L. Hall; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Christopher T. Sneed; Janie Burney; Sarah Colby – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2021
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to understand the perceptions Extension professionals have about healthy food retail programs (HFRPs). Family and Consumer Science (FCS) agents from one state in the southeastern United States were interviewed about their definitions of HFRPs, what challenges and benefits existed, and strategies for…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Extension Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Promotion
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Michele Walsh; Deborah John; Nicole Peritore; Andrea Morris; Carolyn Bird; Marion Ceraso; Sarah Eichberger; Rachel Novotny; Laura Stephenson; Suzanne Stluka; Roberta Riportella – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2018
A Health in All Policies approach engages cross-sector stakeholders to collaboratively improve systems that drive population health. We, the members of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP)'s Health in All Policies Action Team, propose that adopting a Health in All Policies approach within the national Cooperative Extension…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Extension Education, Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Family and Consumer Sciences