Family & Community Health Sciences

Staying Healthy, Raising Healthy Kids, Eating Right - Living Well are the focus of Family & Community Health Sciences (FCHS) community outreach. FCHS helps people throughout the state stay healthy, enjoy life, be active, and reduce health care costs. FCHS encourages today's busy families and individuals to make choices to improve health through variety of workshops, publications, and on-line learning opportunities. FCHS combines research and practical advice to improve your health for a better tomorrow.

Research shows that many of our chronic diseases--obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and some cancers--could be prevented through healthful eating and regular physical activity. Healthier families, individuals, and communities will allow people to enjoy life, stay active, and reduce health care costs. FCHS brings a holistic approach to these health issues effecting families, children, and individuals.

Program Focus:

• Nutrition, Health & Lifestyle
  • Healthy eating
  • Physical activity
  • Family health history
  • Small Steps to Health & Wealth
  • Nutrition education targeting limited resource families
  • School Wellness
  • Children's Health Summits: Fighting Back Against Childhood Obesity
  • Financial Aspects of Health
• Food Safety and Food Allergies
  • Keeping food safe at home and on the go
  • Food safety for food service
  • Managing food allergies
  • Preventing Listeriosis: A Food Borne Disease
• Environmental Health
  • Reducing asthma triggers
  • Which fish are safe to eat?
  • Prevent lead poisoning
• Health Finances
  • The costs of health care
  • Health insurance
  • The financial impact of improved health behaviors
  • Relationships between health and wealth

Consumer and Professional Education

Programs, seminars, conferences, web-based education, publications, and more. Contact your local FCHS professional in your Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension county office for information about local and statewide learning opportunities. Read the FCHS Visions newsletter for the latest healthy living information and advice.