FSoS Extension
The University of Minnesota
Extension Service's mission is to make a difference by connecting
community needs and University resources to address critical issues in
Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Extension Service contributes
to the outreach and engagement mission of the University. Five faculty in
the Department of Family Social Science have primary teaching assignments
with the University of Minnesota Extension Service. Extension faculty are
full members of the department, with research, graduate faculty, and service
responsibilities similar to other faculty. Extension faculty are connected
in various ways to Extension Educators throughout the state, collaborating
to address critical issues of diverse families in Minnesota's 87 counties.
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Here are just a few things our Extension-affiliated faculty are working on:
Family Relations
- Supporting families with adolescents: Work focuses on teenage
risk-taking behavior and opening the lines of communication between
parents and adolescents.
- Teen-Link:
Searchable database of resources on teen issues. Developed as a means
for educators, parents, teachers, youth and professionals working with
adolescents to obtain quick access to books, journal articles and web
sites addressing teen issues.
- Teen Talk: Fact sheet series designed to help parents talk
with their teens to make healthy, responsible choices on topics
including: alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, school, peer pressure, sports,
bullies, employment, dating, and parties.
Family Resource Management
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Change, Loss, Opportunity and Resilience: Guides people
through the processes of emotional reactions, spending patterns,
rethinking goals, and managing conflict should you be adjusting to the
loss together with a partner.
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Children and Money - Allowances and Alternatives:
provides information on ways children might receive money and on how to
provide allowances.
- Critical
Conversations About Financing Long Term Care: A
curriculum to increase awareness of the need to plan for changing health
and independence in later life
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Dollar Works: An economic literacy program for people in
transition. Assists those moving from welfare to work, and/or from a
low-paying job to another job.
- High School Financial Management: A program teaching financial
literacy issues. Engages high school teachers throughout Minnesota to
teach financial management to teenagers.
- Financing
Long Term Care: This site offers unbiased, research-based
information with no financial or long term care products to sell.
Up-to-date information long term care risk, costs, and financing
alternatives is provided.
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Financial Literacy: What's New in Credit & Debt?: CD
containing teaching tools for educating teens about credit, debt, and
budgeting.
- Financial Security
in Later Life: A National Initiative of the Cooperative Extension
Service: Interactive activities to help consumers plan for, take
action, and evaluate ways to achieve financial security in later life.
- Financial
Security in Later Life - Reaching Employees at Work: Workshop to
help employees become more financially secure, less stressed, and more
productive. On-site workshops help employers offer financial management
education that goes beyond specific products or work benefits.
- The Minnesota Health Care Directive: A planning tool used to
identify who you want to make decision for you if you aren't able, and
put your preferences and wishes regarding end-of-life health care in
writing.
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Planning Ahead for Retirement: A comprehensive guide to
retirement planning includes information on estimating the income you
will need to retire, setting meaningful goals, understanding financial
products, making investment choices, financial planners, and health and
life insurance.
- Rural
Families Speak: Tracking the well-being and functioning of rural
low-income families in the context of welfare reform.
- Rural MN
Life: A website that help address the far reaching effects that
changes in Minnesota have on family farms, rural businesses, rural
families and rural communities.
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Suddenly Reduced Income: Guide to assist families through
emotional, financial, and relationship complexities when adjusting to a
sudden reduction in income.
- "Take the Road to Financial Security in Later Life" curriculum:
Resources to help consumers assess their preparedness for later life
financial security and create a plan of action to meet their needs and
goals.
- “Take
the Road to Financial Security in Later Life on-line self-study”:
A self-study course to help you learn about and navigate important
mileposts along the road to achieving financial security in later life.
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Teaching Children Money Habits for Life: Information,
suggestions, and activities parents can use when teaching children of
different ages and stages of development about money.
- Who Gets
Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate?: An intergenerational
communication tool to assist families through the transfer of non-titled
property.
Ongoing development training for agency staff, community
organizations, educational institutions and businesses for helps front line
workers understand how diverse Minnesota families use resources in daily
life.
