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- Welcome
- Effectiveness of the six-week Strong Women Stay Young program
- Long-term evaluation of EFNEP and SNAP-Ed
- Barriers to healthful eating among midlife women during eating occasions focused on nurturing family
- An Examination of Demographic Differences in Decision-Making Among Adolescents Participating in a Community-Based Service-Learning Project
- Couple and relationship education: Does curriculum matter for men?
- Babycenter.com: New parent behavior in an online community
- Free-range kids: How to raise safe, self-reliant children (without going nuts with worry) by Lenore Skenazy
- Abstracts
Spring/Summer 2012, Vol. 17, No. 1
- Welcome
- Parent education for vulnerable rural families
- Annie Peters Hunter: One of the first Extension home demonstration educators
- The aftermath of the Great Recession: Financially fragile families and how professionals can help
- Bringing university innovation to the retirement community: An outdoor walking program for older adults
- Increasing the effectiveness of nutrition educators in meeting the needs of individuals with developmental disabilities
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Toward holistic care: Integrating process and content
- Faith and finance: Empowering faith leaders to care for congregants in financial crisis
- Potential later life economic impacts associated with family caregiving
- A model: Educating caregivers for financial success
- The role of self-directed learning (SDL) in managing health care: Implications for caregivers
- Practitioner’s Brief Brain Injury Association of Tennessee Caregiver Support Network
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Qualitative program evaluation methods
- Financial education through social media: Can you evaluate its impact?
- Assessment of critical thinking skills in a low-income population: Development of a methodology
- Follow-up evaluation to determine short-term effectiveness of a nutrition education program in a primarily Latino population
- Online Webinars as Tools for Building Extension Evaluation Capacity
- 500 Low Sodium Recipes by Dick Logue
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Recommendations and Tools for Obesity Prevention in Preschool-aged Children
- Client-driven tools: Improving evaluation for low-literate adults and teens while capturing better outcomes
- Qualitative Evidence of the Disconnect Between Intent and Interpretation of Common Child Obesity Prevention Messages
- The Reaching New Parents Project: The Impact of a FACS Extension Resource Guide on New Mothers
- Health at Every Size Programs Decrease Worry about Weight and Refocus Attention on Positive Attributes
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Instrument to Assess Perceived Effects of Stress on Dressing and Eating Behaviors
- Validation of a Teen Paraprofessional Peer-Teaching Model In Teen Parenting Nutrition Education
- Steps To a New You: A health-centered program that helps adults change physical activity, eating habits, and body image perceptions
- Implementing Relationship Education with Low-Income Audiences
- Walk Across Arizona, Community-based Walking Program: Promoting and Sustaining Physical Activity in Older Adults
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- A Critical Thinking Approach Increases Offerings of Dark Green Leafy, Yellow / Orange, Cruciferous Vegetables, and Tomatoes in the Diets of Low-income Children
- Caregivers’ Attitudes Regarding Portion Sizes Served to Children at Head Start
- Predictors of Social Support for Healthy Nutrition Behaviors Among African American Adolescents
- A Conceptual Framework for Infusing Behavior Change Theories into Program Design, Delivery, and Evaluation: A Financial Education Example
- Book review: The Fattening of America, How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It by Eric A. Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Mothers’ perceptions of portion size: are they fueling the child obesity epidemic?
- Parenting education programs: recruiting and retaining low-income parents and family caregivers
- Providing collaborative financial and couples counseling: Experiences of the financial counselors and couple's therapists
- Micronutrient Content of Traditional Complementary Foods
- Making Learning a Family Affair: Principles for Attracting Latinos to Extension Finance Classes
- Perspectives: In Defense of Boring Dietary Advice
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Beyond The Healthy Marriage Initiative: How Extension Agents Can Promote Healthy Relationships Among Low-Income, Cohabitating African American Couples
- Cultural Implications and Guidelines for Extension and Family Life Programming with Latino/Hispanic Audiences
- Development of a Self-Directed Home Kitchen Makeovers for Mothers of Young Children
- Improving the Nutritional Quality of the Home Food Environment using Self-Directed Home Kitchen Makeovers
- Meal Time in Less Time Improves Consumer’s Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors in Planning and Preparing Nutritious Meals
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Nutrition Education Issues for Older Adults
- Calcium knowledge, concern, and expectations for intake among parents of Asian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white early adolescents
- Facilitating situated learning experiences for parents and guardians of young children
- Exploring the effectiveness of learning communities as a source of technical assistance and professional development among Extension educators
- The Smart Steps, Embrace the Journey program: Enhancing relational skills and relationship quality in remarriages and stepfamilies
- Resources for radon education and outreach
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Limited intake of energy, fruit, vegetables, and dairy product among children eating at public elementary schools
- Maternal reactions to children’s emotions
- Financial management strategies for women in divorce transition
- Shared book reading as a context for meaningful father-child interaction
- Small Steps to Health and Wealth™: Available resources and potential economic impacts
- See the future: Extension’s role in vision education for older adults in the community
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Consumer satisfaction and the dual-self economic model: Why consumer education can be both informative and transformative
- Addressing mortgage default and delinquency before it occurs: An evaluation framework for the homeownership counseling industry
- Financial harmony: A key component of successful marriage relationship
- Oracle bones: Divination of collaboration behavior?
- What makes older adults vulnerable to exploitation or abuse?
- “What’s Cooking?” Culinary nutrition education at the supermarket
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Recruiting college students to be youth mentors
- Rites of passage during adolescence
- Family life educators supporting pediatricians with parenting information
- Adolescent nutrition and exercise behavior: A preliminary investigation into the role of parental communication quality
- Morality and money: Relating character and values to financial education in grades K-4
- Got Calcium? - A youth curriculum that promotes dairy and non-dairy sources of calcium
- Strengthening Families Through Military 4-H Partnerships
- Youth Teaching Youth: Evaluation of the Alcohol/Tobacco Decisions cross-age teaching program
- Abstracts
- Welcome
- Cultivating healthy couple and marital relationships: Introduction from the guest editor
- What’s love got to do with it? The role of healthy couple relationships and marriages in promoting child, family, and community well-being
- Using research in marriage and relationship education programming
- Offering relationship and marriage education in your community
- Building community collaborations to support healthy and stable marriages
- Youth focused relationships and marriage education
- Marriage education for stepcouples
- Working with low-resource and culturally diverse audiences
- Commitment in healthy relationships
- Connecting as a couple: Communication skills for healthy relationships
- Abstracts
- In-depth review of selected EFNEP curricula updated for the 2005 dietary guidelines and MyPyramid
- Clothing and food purchasing trends among U.S. ethnic groups: 1980 to 2003
- Parents’ perceptions of family involvement and youth outcomes at an urban 4-H education center
- Using recreation to teach family and consumer science concepts: an historical case study with implications for today
- Targeting bankruptcy prevention programs to vulnerable census tracts
- A start to educating Head Start preschoolers on fruits and vegetables
- Abstracts
- Using Age-Paced Parenting Newsletters as Teaching Tools in Home Visitation Programs with At-Risk Mexican Immigrant Families
- When Marriages Die: Premarital and Early Marriage Precursors to Divorce
- Using a Simulation to Raise Awareness of Issues Faced by Limited Resource Audiences
- MyPyramid Perspective
- The Great Physician’s Rx for Health and Wellness
- Abstracts
- The influence of a paraprofessional, home-visitation program on parenting behaviors
- Development and evaluation of a computer decision exercise for consumer participation in insurance benefit planning
- Proactive conflict management in community groups
- Measuring the impact of youth development programs: A national on-line youth life skills evaluation system
- Building Opportunities: Dressing for Success
- Sharing the message about early brain development: Georgia's Better Brains for Babies collaboration
- Abstracts
- How financially literate are today's youth? Their current practices and what we need to know as educators
- Family resource practices for families living in poverty
- Best practices for couples education: Summary of a dialogue between researchers and educators
- Promoting Healthy Aging for Independence
- Reviews: Strong Women Stay Young
- Abstracts
- Culturally respectful evaluation
- From uncertainty to support: communicating with new parents through newsletters
- Reducing low-income women and children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke - a pilot project
- Small steps to health and wealth
- Creating a Financial Path to Graduation
- Abstracts
- Extension Biotechnology Education: Impact on Consumer Action
- Finding Whole Grains and Calcium Rich Food Sources on Supermarket Shelves
- Energy Conservation Tips for Individuals and Families
- Making an Informed Decision about Long-term Care Insurance: A Teleconference Seminar to Help Consumers
- Perspectives: Serving the Elderly Client and Family
- Reviews: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High.
- Abstracts
- Newlywed Debt: The Anti-Dowry
- A Process for Learning About and Creating Programs for Culturally Diverse Audiences
- Food Safety Related Practices and Acculturation of First Generation Chinese Americans in Pennsylvania
- Perspectives: Extension's Support of Informal Child Care Providers
- Reviews: Second Time Around:Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Curriculum Guide for Group Leaders
- Recent Developments: Multi-state Capacity Building in Program Evaluation
- Editor’s Corner: Endings and Beginnings
- Abstracts
- Why ranchers and farmers are reluctant to seek counseling and how family practitioners can help
- Food safety knowledge of residents in a central Illoinois county
- Increasing high school financial educators' skills through distance education
- "Attitudes for Success" -- The Hispanic Youth Leadership Program
- Applying principles of community supported agriculture to an Extension Nutrition Education Program
- The Pitt County Poster Project: A partnership for health
- Perspectives: The entrepreneurial Extension Service
- Perspectives: Advocating for physical activity in schools -- the politics and the policy
- Editor's Corner: The scholarship of extension and engagement: What does it mean in the promotion and tenure process?
- Abstracts
- Cremation: History, process, and regulations
- Assessing decision-making skills of youth
- Use of kitchen ventilation: Impact on indoor air quality
- Navigating the resource maze: A simulation of resource finding for families of young children with special needs
- Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service and the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative
- Perspectives: Calling All Caregivers: The Caregiving Crisis in America
- Book review: The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by M.A. Harper
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Ethical issues of advance directives
- Abstracts
- A logic model application: Community-University collaboration
- Success and the single parent
- Bridging the miles: Long distance families
- A promising program: Building family strengths
- Resources on wildfire prevention and recovery
- Review of Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
- Review of Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman
- Perspectives: A critical analysis of recent claims about the Atkins-style diet
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Do aggressive behaviors in girls carryover to adulthood? If so, what can be done in the work place?
- Abstracts
Winter/Spring 2002, Vol 7, No. 1
- Talking to children about terrorism and armed conflict
- Which youth violence prevention programs work?
- Anger, conflict, and violence levels: A comparison of farm/ranch with city/urban residents
- Development and sensory evaluation of a soy protein/gingerbread muffin
- Showcase North Carolina: Family outreach study guides parent education programming in Moore County
- Perspectives: A critical analysis of North Carolina's on-line central registry for advance directives
- Recent Developments: updates on caregiving and healthy births
- Editor's Corner: Impact beyond the profession
- Abstracts
- Be active kids: A nutrition and physical activity education program for four- and five-year olds
- Jump start your bones©: A school-based osteoporosis prevention program
- Black and white films show Extension's early years
- Showcase NC: Estate planning Web site educates consumers and markets legal services
- Showcase USA: Promoting an intergenerational perspective with news articles
- Perspectives: Calling all parents: How did you do on your homework?
- Perspectives: The Internet drives plagiarism
- Reviews: Do you know ERIC?
- Editor's Corner: September 11, 2001: A tribute
- Recent Developments
- Abstracts
- Exploring attitudes toward body weight and eating behaviors of women in college
- Proactively addressing accountability in Extension
- Evaluation that goes beyond the data
- Issues of assessment in testing children under age eight
- Showcase NC: Homebuyers' workshop shows the need for housing education
- Showcase USA: New state legislation: Opportunities for collaboration
- Perspectives: Cooperative Extension is ally in consumer protection
- Editor's Corner: Are consumers ready for the virtual living will? Apparently not.
- Recent Developments
- Letters to the Editor
- Abstracts
- Keynote address: Global Implications of Biotechnology
- Consumer attitudes about agricultural biotechnology
- A review of U.S. intellectual property law applicable to biotechnology
- Showcase NC: Hot topics in food safety
- Showcase USA: 4-H curriculum: Field of Genes: making sense of biotechnology in agriculture
- Perspectives: using elements of risk commuication to develop food biotechnology education programs for extension family and consumer educators
- Guest editor's corner: Biotechnology education: is there a need and what is the role of the Cooperative Extension Service?
- Review: 4-H Curriculum: Field of Genes
- Recent Developments
- Abstracts
- Caring for aging family members: implications and resources for family practitioners
- Family and Consumer Sciences and schools: a perfect partnership for parent education
- Showcase NC: North Carolina program teaches food safety to food service operators
- Showcase USA: Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate?? Minnesota program helps families make difficult decisions
- Reviews: Who's raising the kids these days?
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Posting advance directives online -- are consumers ready for the virtual living will?
- Distinguished Service Award
- Letters to the Editor
- Abstracts
- Personal finance education: preferred delivery methods and program topics
- College-age women's perceptions of dairy foods
- Perspectives: Census can help improve the lives of children
- Showcase NC: Share Yourself: Work-first mentoring education program
- Showcase USA: Simply beautiful program in Kentucky: Choosing an uncluttered, focused, rich life
- Reviews: "Going to Grandma's House . . . to Live."
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Reappointment, promotion, and tenure for extension and teaching faculty: are we close to getting it right?
- Abstracts
- An expanding role for extension agents in the new millennium: helping clients evaluate non-extension information
- How consumers prepared for the Year 2000: preliminary findings
- Educating children in a socially toxic environment
- Perspectives: Hurricane Floyd
- Showcase NC: Aging with Gusto!: North Carolina program wins national award!
- Showcase USA: Stepping stones for step families
- Reviews: Selecting children's books with positive intergenerational messages
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Internet users should follow age-old advice: "caveat emptor!"
- Abstracts
- Estimating retirement savings: are ballpark estimate type worksheets accurate enough to help consumers?
- Consumer fraud
- Perspectives: Responsible science -- in the public interest
- Showcase NC: The Baby Think It Over Program? helps prevent teenage pregnancies in North Carolina
- Showcase USA: The CSREES National Home-Based and Micro Business Design Team develops curriculum to aid entrepreneurs
- Reviews: "Hardship into Hope: The Rewards of Caregiving"
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Travel to a foreign land teaches many lessons
- Take The Forum Challenge!
- Latino parents: unique preferences for learning about parenting
- Assisting the guardian of an incompetent adult
- Showcase NC: Buncombe County Extension Homemakers help visually impaired and physically challenged toddlers and their families
- Showcase USA: A Mississippi Extension program reaches and teaches entrepreneurs via the Internet
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: Extension's response to Y2K
- Letters to the Editor
Fall/Winter 1998, Vol. 3, No. 3
- Ethical wills: passing on treasures of the heart
- EFT-99: information for educators
- Showcase NC: Aging with Gusto! North Carolina educational programs teach adults how to make the most of their later years!
- Showcase USA: Georgia uses live theater in family development education
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner: My life as a foot
- Ergonomics in the office: a guide for improved efficiency and well-being of workers
- Planning today for tomorrow's health care costs
- Trends and emerging issues related to welfare reform: a perspective for Extension
- Showcase: Heart and Soul: healthy southern cooking programs make traditional recipes "heart healthy"
- Position Announcement
- Editor's Corner
- Know where you are going and what to expect when you get there (understanding long-term care facility options)
- A critical analysis of North Carolina's advance instruction for mental health treatment
- Showcase: The ABILITY program provides hope for farmers in Sampson County
- Recent Developments
- Editor's Corner
- Quality of life in long-term care settings: a look at some trends in humanizing nursing homes
- The dinner fork -- friend or foe in reducing the risk of disease
- Showcase: Welfare Reform: empowering to succeed in Bertie County
- Recent Developments
- Reaching pre-retirement and older audiences with critical information on health insurance for seniors
- Social host liability
- Melon safety
- Recent Developments
- Comments from the Department Head
- Protecting young children in the home
- North Carolina ABILITY program -- helping disabled farmers
- Recent Developments
- Comments from the Department Head
- Marriage -- a many-splendored, sometimes splintered, thing
- Facing life-sized issues -- empowering teens with problem solving skills
- Recent Developments
- Comments from the Department Head
- Successful aging: what does the "good life"look like?
- Computer data-based programs for apparel, textiles, and housing surfaces
- Recent Developments
- Comments from the Department Head