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FCS Update
January 16, 2009
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Source: Jill Eversole Nolan, OSU Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences
jnolan@ehe.osu.edu
614.688.5378
Happy New Year! May 2009 bring you much joy, peace and good health.
Hopefully you all were able to carve some time away from the office to enjoy the holidays with your family and friends. As we begin a new year, we have much to look forward to in our Extension work. Now, more than any other time, our expertise is needed in communities as people experience difficult financial times. Use the FCS listserv to share programs with others to lessen the duplication of efforts. Your Extension outreach is making a difference in people’s lives . . . . thank you.
Best wishes in the New Year . . . it is a pleasure working with you.
Jill
In This Issue . . .
· Annual Conference Recognition
· 5 CountySolutions
· eXtension
· Grant Opportunity: Families and Financial Instability
· Best Wishes . . .
· Kudos
· With Deepest Sympathy
· Web access to FCS Professional Resources
· Chowline and Family Fundamentals
· OSU Extension Communiqué
· Leadership Moments
· Dates to Remember
· Upcoming National Conferences
· Helpful Links
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FCS Extension was well represented at this year’s Annual Conference with several serving as members of the planning committee, presenting sessions and posters, and winning awards! Congratulations to all of the following:
Annual Conference Planning Committee Members - Marcia Jess (Chairman), Kirk Bloir, Tricia Callahan, Pam Montgomery, Chris Olinsky, Cindy Shuster, and Marisa Warrix
Presentations/Concurrent Sessions - Shari Gallup, Tasha Snyder, Cindy Torppa, Barb Brahm, Tricia Callahan, Marisa Warrix, Linnette Goard, Kirk Bloir, Pat Brinkman, Marie Economos, Doris Herringshaw, Marcia Jess, Cindy Oliveri, Susan Zies, Cindy Shuster, Sharon Seiling, Nancy Hudson, Dan Remley, Melanie Hart, Kathy Michelich, Margaret Jenkins, Kathy Dodrill, Beth Gaydos, Jennifer Hartzler, Kathy Jelley, Chris Kendle, Sheila Maggard, Monadine Mattey, Kate Shumaker, Lydia Medeiros, Rose Fisher-Merkowitz, Carol Miller, Donna Brown, Carol Chandler, Lois Clark, Susan Holladay, Cindy Long, Mary Longo, and Chris Olinsky
Poster Presentations - Doris Herringshaw, Marisa Warrix, Joyce Shriner, Cindy Shuster, Dan Remley, Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, Maria Carmen Lambea, Ana Claudia Lambea, Cindy Oliveri, Tricia Callahan, Treva Williams, Sharon Mader, Kathy Jelley, Sheila Maggard, and Monadine Mattey
Cost Recovery Awards- Cindy Bond-Zielinski, Carol Miller, Linda Newman, Marisa Warrix, Nancy Stehulak, Marilyn Sachs, Cheryl Barber Spires, Barb Rohrs and Cindy Oliveri.
Grants and Contracts Awards - Barb Rohrs
ESP Distinguished Service Award - Treva Williams
ESP Team Recognition -HancockCounty Office Staff, Be Healthy Now Team
ESP Tenure Award - Nancy Stehulak (25 years)
ESP Team Teaching Award Winners - Susan Shockey, Treva Williams, Rose Fisher Merkowitz, Nancy Hudson
ESP Tools for Teaching Award Winners - Lois Clark, Donna Green, Marilyn Rabe, Susan Shockey, Beth Gaydos, Donna Green, Nancy Hudson, Sharon Seiling
OAEP Professional Improvement Scholarship Awards - Melanie Hart, Cindy Bond-Zielinski, Shari Gallup, Susan Colbert, Cindy Oliveri
OAEP First Timer Scholarship Awards - Cindy Long
OAEP Regional FCS Achievement Awards - Katharine Shumaker, Ruth Anne Musgrave, Dan Remley (2-10 years service); Kathy Jelley, Linnette Goard; Carol Chandler (over 10 years service)
OAEPState FCS Achievement Awards - Katharine Shumaker (2-10 years service); Carol Chandler (over 10 years service)
OAEP State Staff Achievement Awards - Kirk Bloir (2-10 years service)
2008 NEAFCS Awards - Cindy Oliveri, Kathy Jelley, Sheila Maggard, Monadine Mattey, Treva Williams, Kathy Dodrill, Marie Economos, Shari Gallup, Beth Gaydos, Sheila Maggard, Dan Remley, Susan Zies, Lydia Medeiros, Margaret Jenkins, Tricia Callahan, Lisa Goodall
2008 NEAFCS Committees or Reviewers for the Journal of NEAFCS - Lois Clark, Mary Longo, Lisa Barlage, Cindy Shuster, Doris Herringshaw, Carol Miller, Melanie Hart, Cindy Torppa, Pat Brinkman, Joyce Shriner, Beth Gaydos, Chris Olinsky, Linnette Goard.
NEAFCS Distinguished Service Award - Lisa Barlage, Nancy Stehulak
NEAFCS Continued Excellence Award- Kathy Oliver, Melinda Hill
John Stitzlein Diversity Award -Frances Amatulli and Flora Popenoe
Mary E. King Memorial Professional Development Award - Joseph Maiorano
Marilyn R. Spiegel Excellence in Extension FCS Award - Cindy Oliveri
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Many people are facing layoffs and plant closings. This message is meant to be a reminder of the eXtension Web site that contains a number of short, but informative, pieces on topics related to money management and stress. This link shows a synopsis:http://about.extension.org/wiki/Backgrounder_on_Managing_Money_in_Troubled_Times
(Sharon Seiling, State Specialist)
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When word came out in May that DHL would be closing in Wilmington Ohio, Melanie Hart (Greene County), Susan Holladay (Clinton County), Pat Brinkman (Fayette County), Chris Olinsky (Montgomery County) and Rose Fisher Merkowitz (Highland County) collaborated on developing resources and materials and offering these tools to their communities. As a result, the website: http://5countysolution.osu.edu was developed. They were pleased with the over 100 hits on the site in December and now they are working on marketing the Web site. Hope everyone can use this site to help communities across Ohio.
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The NationalCenter for Marriage Research (NCMR) seeks to fund up to four proposals ($20,000 per award) to support innovative research that contributes to theoretical, conceptual, methodological, or empirical developments about family responses to financial strain. A large body of research indicates that marital and family behavior is related to economic circumstances. For instance, men and women with positive economic prospects are more likely to marry and stay married than their disadvantaged counterparts. However, the current economic climate calls for further research on the familial consequences of economic uncertainty.
Financial instability encompasses several domains, including employment, income, or poverty; food or housing insecurity; asset accumulation; consumption patterns; and public assistance usage. Economic factors may affect family structure and processes as well as individual well-being and these outcomes are likely to vary across the life course and among subgroups of the population. Projects may use qualitative or quantitative data. Those that employ innovative methodological approaches, new measurement development, or novel conceptual frameworks are especially desirable. Application deadline: February 1, 2009.
For details visit http://ncmr.bgsu.edu/opportunities.html
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Please join us in wishing Cyndi Renn, Program Manager in Consumer Sciences, the best of luck as she embarks on new ventures. Due to Extension’s budget reduction, her position will be eliminated as of March 20, 2009. Her last day in the office was December 31. Please join me in thanking Cyndi for her seven years of dedicated service and wishing her best wishes!
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Julie Shertzer and Gail Kaye, Human Nutrition, received a Program Venture Fund Grant, Promoting Healthier Food Purchases in a Low Income Neighborhood: A Model for Supermarket Nutrition Intervention, for one year in the amount of $3,600.
The following FCS Educators receiving a 2009 Ohio 4-H Foundation grant:
Kate Shumaker, HolmesCounty, Teen Youth Mentoring through 4-H Project Promotion
Tricia Callahan, MiamiCounty, Workforce Prep: Marketing, Resources & Training.
Doris I. Herringshaw (Wood), Marcia Jess (Ottawa) and Susan Zies(Lucas) had a research poster proposal accepted for presentation at CYFAR 2009, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, May 19-21.
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The mother of Sharon Mader, FCS Educator in SanduskyCounty, passed away December 14th. Sympathy is extended to Sharon and her family.
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For security reasons, it was necessary to change the username and password used to log onto the FCS Professionals Resources web pages, including New Start for Financial Success, Homebuyer Education information, and the “Ohio FNP for professionals” log-on. You must use the following to access the FCS Extension password protected information on the web:
- username: fcs (all lowercase)
- password: 1Extension! (case sensitive)
This change does not impact the procedure used for FNP, EFNEP or URS Reporting.
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Martha Filipic’s Chow Lineis a weekly question-and-answer column that focuses on nutrition, food safety, food processing and other food related matter. To read the latest edition, High-fructose corn syrup just like sugar, contributed byJulie Shertzer, Program Director in Human Nutrition, go to: http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=4925.
Martha also writes a monthly Family Fundamentals that focuses on Human Development/Family Sciences and Consumer Sciences (alternating each month). Cora French Robinson, FCS Educator in FairfieldCounty, contributes Trouble paying bills? Web site offers guidance. It can be found at: http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=4919.
News media have free use of the material as long as proper credit is given to The Ohio State University. Readers can send questions to Martha at Filipic.3@osu.edu. To subscribe to news releases, including Chow Line and Family Fundamentals go to: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~news/subscribe.php.
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OSU Extension Communiqué shares much about what is happening across the Extension system. Do not miss connecting to this online communication at http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~intranet/news_matrix.php?newsletter=1.
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“Whatever your role in life may be, you make a difference. There is a 100 percent chance that you can be a role model for leadership. There is a 100 percent chance that you can influence someone else’s performance.
There is a 100 percent chance that you can affect what someone else thinks, says, and does. There is a 100 percent chance that you will make a difference in other people’s lives.” (Kouzes & Posner, 2006, p. 37) Reference: Kouzes, J.M., & Posner, B.Z., (2006). A leader’s legacy. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
A Leader’s Legacy is available on loan from the OhioStateUniversityLeadershipCenter. To borrow this resource or any other resource, please go to the resource search page http://164.107.48.88/winnebago/index.asp?lib.
Learn how the OhioStateUniversityLeadershipCenter is strengthening tomorrow’s leaders today at http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu/ (Leadership Moments is reprinted with permission for the OSULeadershipCenter.)
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February 5-6, 2009 Diversity 2.0 Conference - Cincinnati
March 17, 2009 Annual Economic Issues Program - Ohio 4-H Center
March 30-31, 2009 Dining with Diabetes In-Service - Jessing Center
April 28-30, 2009 Leadership for Tomorrow: Exploring New Approaches - Columbus
Upcoming National Conferences
- April 6-9, 2009 National Jeanne Priester Health Conference - Indianapolis, IN
- May 18-21, 2009 CYFARConference - Baltimore, MD
- June 25-28, 2009 AAFCS Annual Conference - Knoxville, TN
- September 15-18, 2009 NEAFCS Annual Conference - Birmingham, AL
- November 11-14, 2009 NCFR Annual Conference - San Francisco
- September 20-24, 2010 NEAFCS Annual Conference - Portland, ME
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Jill Eversole Nolan, PhD
The Ohio State University
Assistant Director, Family and Consumer Sciences
Ohio State University Extension
College of Education and Human Ecology
185 Arps Hall
1945 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Office 614.247.2543
Fax 614.688.4612
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