Health outreach

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Extension educator serves as La Grande School District health coordinator as part of CDC Healthy Schools grant

The Oregon Department of Education selected the La Grande School District as the only school district in Oregon to be funded as part of a five-year cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Robin Maille | Apr 2024 | Impact story

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Extension nutrition educators help teach Portland school children about culturally respectful foods

During the 2022-23 school year, OSU Extension's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) team piloted three lesson plans that teach elementary school students about the cultural significance of three healthy foods ...

Jonathan Kauffman | Apr 5, 2024 | News story

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OSU Extension-facilitated Community Conversations focus on mental health and substance abuse disorder

Guided by OSU Extension public-health professionals, these discussions have inspired rural counties to collect better data on overdoses, strengthen interagency links, secure millions of dollars in grant funding, and create new prevention and treatment services.

Jonathan Kauffman | Mar 26, 2024 | News story

Mental health outreach

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AgriStress Helpline for Oregon

The AgriStress Helpline is here for the agricultural community, dedicated to serving farming, ranching, fisheries and forestry communities. This toolkit provides posters, social media images, business cards, fact sheets and more to help others learn about this valuable resource.

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Our Future in Our Hands: Care for Your Mental Health

You can build resilience and overcome wildfires' potentially negative consequences by focusing on supporting mental health. Part of Our Future in Our Hands series.

Emily Jane Davis, Dusti Linnell, Kara Baylog, Oralia Mendez | Jun 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network

The purpose of the Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN) Program is to establish a network that connects individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching, and other agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs. This project is funded by a USDA NIFA grant.

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Healthy communities

• GROW Healthy Kids and Communities: Generating Rural Options for Weight (GROW) Healthy Kids and Communities was an integrated research, education, and Extension program to inspire communities, schools, and families to create environments that make it easy for children to eat healthfully and be physically active.
• SPAN-ET: The School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (SPAN-ET) was developed to assess school resources and readiness to improve nutrition and physical activity environments, suggest appropriate improvement strategies, and score impacts resulting from environmentally-based treatments.
• HEAL MAPPS™: HEAL MAPPS™ helps community stakeholders document people’s experience of place with respect to supports and barriers for habitual healthy eating and physical activity.
• R-CFPA: We engage people in the communities we serve in assessing the conditions that most affect them where they live, work, learn, and play. We do this to learn what will work best to improve weight healthy behaviors for children and families, and food and physical activity resources in the community.

Food as Medicine

Foods That Fight Inflammation and Chronic Disease

Saturated fats, animal products and processed meats are among the foods that promote inflammation. Fruits and vegetables, whole grains and other foods prevent or lower inflammation. How should you incorporate them into your diet?

Stephanie Polizzi | Feb 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

Arresting Alzheimer’s with Diet and Lifestyle

Although dementia tends to occur after age 65, it is not a normal part of aging. It that may be largely preventable through diet and lifestyle, including exercise, socializing and a low-fat diet such as the Mediterranean or DASH diets.

Stephanie Polizzi | Feb 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)

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Lowering Cholesterol with Food

Foods with antioxidants, soluble fiber, and omega-3 fatty acids help lower cholesterol. Berries, pomegranates, dark chocolate and leaf tea have polyphenols that can protect cholesterol from oxidation. Soluble fiber lowers...

Stephanie Polizzi | Feb 2023 | Extension Catalog publication Peer reviewed (Orange level)