Family & Community Health

Extension's Family and Community Health Program offers effective educational opportunities to help Oregon families meet the practical challenges of daily life.  Programs address critical issues for individuals and families and help Oregonians become healthy, financially secure, and responsible members of society.  This is accomplished by faculty, volunteers, professionals, and support staff, who organize and conduct educational experiences through the media and in group, community, and family settings.

Topics addressed may include:

  • Nutrition
  • Fitness and Physical Activity
  • Stress Management
  • Food Safety & Food Preservation
  • Disease Prevention

Resources are also available for childhood development, financial planning and aging.

FCH Faculty bring the research and expertise of OSU, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Science and College of Health & Human Sciences to Coos County Extension.  Programs focus on providing tools to improve the health and wellness of you and your family through education and empowerment.  The FCH agent provides opportunity for knowledge and development through workshops, seminars, home study courses, newsletters, media events and health fairs.  Meet your FCH Agent.

FCH collaborates with food banks, public health departments, schools, hospitals, businesses and community service organizations.   Partnering provides opportunity to pool resources and address larger issues in our community.  Many organizations and community partners support health promotion and others are encouraged to join with FCH in creating healthy children, families and communities.

Current Collaborations

One focus of the FCH program area is to expand nutrition education to limited income adults and youth through the Oregon Family Nutrition Program (OFNP).  The Oregon Family Nutrition Program (OFNP) is a component of Oregon State University Extension Service and is funded by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) through a contract with the Oregon Children, Adults and Family (CAF) division of the Oregon Department of Human Services.  The program helps Food Stamp program participants and those eligible (but not receiving) Food Stamps learn how to feed their families healthy meals and make their food stamps last longer.

Determine if you are eligible for food assistance through WIC (Women, Infants and Children program):www.healthoregon.org/wic   

FCH is currently involved in the following programming:

Volunteers in FCH

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