OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Find your local Extension office: extension.osu.edu/locate-an-office fcs.osu.edu OSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences We help people improve their lives and strengthen their communities. We serve thousands of people throughout Ohio every year, delivering the highest quality research-based educational programs focused on building healthy people, healthy finances and healthy relationships. We help people stay healthy through good nutrition and food safety. We teach people to use their money wisely, and we offer them the skills to create a positive work-life balance. We teach people how to apply research in their daily lives in order to make informed choices about everything from finances to healthy living to relationships to food safety. CFAES provides research and related educational programs to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis. For more information: go.osu.edu/cfaesdiversity. FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN ECOLOGY THE COLLEGE OF FOOD, AGRICULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION

Healthy Finances Our county-based Family and Consumer Sciences educators assist families in improving both their present and future economic well-being through programs that enable adult participants to assess their financial circumstances, increase their financial management skills (such as organizing financial records, tracking spending and improving bill paying), reduce their debt and begin or increase their savings and improve their consumer decision- making abilities. Adult financial education programming includes: Basic Money Management Homeownership Education Master Money Mentor Financial Coaching Teen financial education programming includes: Real Money, Real World Healthy People We teach good nutrition, proper food safety and life skills to help Ohioans live healthfully. We provide accessible and reliable research- based information to help people help themselves. Although topics vary from county to county throughout the state, nutrition programming includes: SNAP-Ed Programs Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Programs (EFNEP) Dining with Diabetes Food Safety Home Food Preservation Workplace Wellness Heart Health Local Foods Farm to School Programs Family and Consumer Sciences empowers Ohioans to improve their finances, build more positive relationships and embrace healthier lifestyles.  We teach children, adults, families and communities the skills needed to live healthfully in all areas of life.  We promote healthy lifestyles: healthy bodies, healthy finances, and healthy relationships.  We are a source of information you can trust.  We are a catalyst that brings positive change to communities. “I did not know healthy food could taste so good. If you open a restaurant I will come... and bring all my friends!” – A Dining with Diabetes participant Live Smart Ohio Helping Ohioans Stay Healthy "The FCS programming has been a great way for our local libraries to offer timely and educational topics to our patrons on a variety of subjects. We treasure this partnership and hope to utilize it for years to come." – Tuscarawas County Public Libraries Healthy Relationships We are committed to helping people develop and nurture healthy relationships based on research- rooted information. Family-life programming includes: Parenthood and Child Development Fatherhood Successful Co-Parenting for Divorcing Parents Youth Asset and Skill Building Strengthening Marriage and Partnering Aging