Child and Family Development

Healthy children and families are the foundation of strong, prosperous communities. In partnership with Land-Grant University and Cooperative Extension System, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) supports efforts that take a holistic, life-span approach to promoting the healthy physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development of individuals and families within their diverse ecologies.

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In Focus

• Two Extension Family Life Specialists Recognized for Outstanding Achievement and Contribution to Extension Work
• 2011 Extension Family Life Specialists’ Meeting

Funding

• Hatch Act Funding
• Smith-Lever
  
• Childhood Obesity Prevention, AFRI
• Rural Health and Safety Education
• Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program

Selected Results and Impacts

• Ten Extension Teams Receive Funds to Address Rural Health and Safety Education
  in 2011-2012 
• Better Kid Care
• Just in Time Parenting

Partners/Partnerships

• NIFA Joins the National Institutes of Health in Addressing Health Outcomes Among Children and Families in Rural United States

Resources

• Let’s Move! Child Care Resources for Child Care Providers
• The Office of Child Care, Department of Health and Human Services
• ChildCare.gov
• Parenting 24/7 – School Age (6 – 12) – University of Illinois Extension
• Parenting 24/7 – Teens – University of Illinois Extension
  
• Teen-Link – University of Minnesota Extension
• Teen Talk – University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development
• Co-Parenting for Successful Kids - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension

Contacts

• Aida Balsano—Primary
• Sylvia Montgomery