FSoS Extension: Extension Programs
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.