Health outreach

Mental health outreach

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AgriStress Helpline for Oregon

The AgriStress HelpLine is a free, 24/7 hotline for Oregon's agricultural and forestry communities, including farmers, ranchers, fishermen, foresters, and their families. Call or text: (833) 897-2474. Helpline operators are trained to ...

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Nuestro futuro en nuestras manos: Cuide su salud mental

Herramientas para apoyarse a sí mismo y a los demás antes, durante y después de los incendios.

Emily Jane Davis, Dusti Linnell, Kara Baylog, Oralia Mendez | May 2023 | OSU Extension Catalog

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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.

Cassie Bouska, Julie Leep | Project

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.
• School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment Tool (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.
• Rural Community Food & Physical Activity Environment Audit (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

Alimentos que combaten la inflamación y las enfermedades crónicas

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 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Gray level)

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Deteniendo el Alzheimer con Dieta y Estilo de Vida

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 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Gray 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 | OSU Extension Catalog Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Latest resources

PestiSeguro™/ PestiSafe™ App (in English)

This smartphone application was developed by the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH) for forest and agricultural workers who work with herbicides and pesticides. The app provides an English to Spanish translation of commonly used pesticide labels in the Pacific Northwest.

Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center | Oct 2025 | Online resource

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Promotora program (in English)

The Promotora Program of Unite Oregon and the Lomakatsi Restoration Project employs promotoras de salud (community health workers) to deliver trainings and resources to forest workers in the Rogue Valley.

Lomakatsi Restoration Project | Oct 2025 | Online resource

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Stop germs: Wash your hands

Washing hands can keep you healthy and prevent the spread of respiratory and diarrheal infections.

Glenda Hyde, Carolyn Raab | Sep 2025 | OSU Extension Catalog