Intro to Family and Community Health

the Oregon State University Extension Service's Family and Health program exists to improve the life of Oregonians. Our publications, classes, and research-based programs focus on many different topics: nutrition, finances, planing for a healthy retirement, aging well, parenting, emergency preparedness, and food security. From cradle to rocking chair, the OSU Extension Family and Community Health program is here to prepare you for life in the 21st century.

FCH Stories

Mastery of Aging Well course

Sharon Johnson, an Oregon State University Extension Service educator, helps older people successfully manage chronic health problems and live healthier lives.

Share a meal and learn together in Portland’s low-income neighborhoods

Lynn Steele leads nutrition classes demonstrating healthy cooking in a kitchen-classroom bustling with the chatter of parents and children.

Fight obesity in rural kids

Oregon State University Extension Service faculty will use a nearly $5 million grant to develop an obesity prevention program for rural children in Clackamas, Columbia, and Klamath counties.

Learn to love vegetables one seed at a time

OSU Extension provides nutrition education for youth, combining hands-on gardening and making healthy snacks.

Detect hidden childhood hunger

An online course developed by the Oregon State University Extension Service and offered through OSU's Extended Campus teaches nurses, physicians, and other health-care practitioners how to identify children who don’t have access to enough nutritious food.

Intro to Family and Community Health

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