Roxane
Whittaker, Extension Educator
| The Family and Consumer Sciences
(FCS) program provides
research-based information about the following subjects: family and financial
management; food and nutrition, food preservation, and human development topics
(e.g., parenting, stress management, youth development).
Each year, FCS provides classes and speaking engagements to county residents. Topics of recent workshops include; Food Safety for volunteers, consumers, and food service workers, Boning Up on Calcium, Food Guide Pyramid, How to Read a Food Label, Weight Control, ServSafe, Family Strengthening parenting and youth program and Budgeting. The Food Safety and Nutrition workshops are approved for child care providers credit. |
| Family & Consumer Workshops |
| Internet Links: |
| The Extension Cord for Children, Youth & Families |
| Maryland Cooperative Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences |
| Computer Technology Fact Sheets courtesy of Iowa State University Cooperative Extension |
| National Network for Family Resiliency: Family Economics, Retirement, and Saving |
| Fair Credit Reporting Fair Credit Reporting |
| Federal Trade Commission |
| Dr. Pat Nelson, University of Delaware, Dept of Food & Resource Economics, Youth & Family Information |
| Government Information |
| Money 2000 |
| Consumer Information Center |
| Federal Trade Commission |
| Children, Youth and Families Ed & Resource Network |
| Social Security Administration |