Living Well: Raising Kids, Eating Right, Spending Smart

   Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Educators serve individuals, families and communities throughout
 Twin Falls County and Idaho.

     In our roles as teachers, facilitators and managers, Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Educators apply
 unbiased, research-based information to help you make informed decisions.

Services Offered:

• Brochures dealing with basic nutrition, food safety and food preservation.
• Brochures dealing with personal finances, credit, estate planning and saving.
• Consulting on basic nutrition, food safety, food preservation, personal finance, balancing work and family and child care.

Well-being, Food Safety, Nutrition

     The link between health and nutrition is well established. By sharing the latest in nutrition research and by
 teaching basic nutrition skills, Extension Educators support families' choices of healthier lifestyles.

Classes Offered:

•   Meal Time In Less Time
•   Steps to a New You
•   The Healthy Diabetes Plate
•   MyPyramid
•   Diet Busters/Fad Diets
•   Fighting Cancer with Food 
•   Osteoporosis: Treatment and Prevention

Resource Management

     Idaho families are negatively impacted by consumer debt, bankruptcy, fraud and lack of retirement planning. Extension Educators deliver money management education in areas of credit use, budgeting, and saving to help enable families to make sound financial decisions.

Classes Offered:

•   They Can't Hang Up (telemarketing fraud)
•   Financial Record Keeping
•   Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate (transferring Non-Titled Property)

Family Relationships 

     Families must deal with important interpersonal relationship. Extension Educators work with family members of
 all ages, helping them cope with the many demands placed on them.

Classes Offered: 

•   Guarding Against Identity Theft
•   Keeping Farm and Family Together
•   Legally Secure Your Financial Future
•   Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate (transferring Non-Titled Property)
•   Credit Cents  
•   Balancing Work and Family           
•   Parenting Apart: A Guide for Separated and Divorced Families
•   Long Term Care

Food Safety

•   Ready Set Food Safe
•   Germ City
•   Master Food Preserver

"Extension Focus"

     The Extension Focus Newsletter is published bi-monthly at no charge. Call 734-9590 or email us at
 twinfall@uidaho.edu with your address to be added to the list or check it out online by going to: http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/district3 then pick the issue that you would like to see, on the left side link bar
     Rhea Lanting, Extension Educator, can present a workshop for your group. Contact the Twin Falls County
 Extension Office for more information, 208-734-9590.
     Call or email Rhea Lanting, rhlantin@uidaho.edu, to find out how Family and Consumer Sciences programs are
 making a difference for Idaho people.

Rhea Lanting
Twin Falls County Educator
Family and Consumer Sciences Educator

This page was last updated on January 07, 2008