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FCS Update
August 3, 2009
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Source: Jill Eversole Nolan, OSU Extension, Family & Consumer Sciences
nolan.2@osu.edu
614-688-5378
Hi Everyone,
It has been a great summer thus far . . . how about for you?
I have enjoyed some relaxing vacation, tackled some long-awaited home projects, and dove into some fun projects at work. Most recently, I tackled reading ALL of your URSs, over 80 of them! I learned a great deal about the programming across the state. Your URS is used often to secure information about Extension programming, audiences reached and impacts accomplished. Please do not under-estimate your Extension efforts in your URS. Congrats to all of you for a successful programming year!
Per usual it has been a “fair” summer! Fairs are wonderful environments for learning . . . and great places for advocating our Extension mission. I have browsed the exhibits at the Ohio State Fair and impressed with the quality of projects and the magnitude of support from all of you, your volunteers and 4-H members. A huge THANK YOU to all.
Summer is flying by . . . take time to enjoy it with your family and friends!
Jill
In This Issue . . .
- Annual Conference RFP
- Excellence in Extension Award
- New eXtension CoP
- MiTTnet Launched
- OSUE Restructuring - Working Across Program Areas
- Cross-Programming Opportunity
- Photos Needed
- New FCS Blog
- Fall Dialogue Plans
- Universal Design
- EHE is a Partner in OSU/Kroger Food Safety Hotline
- Educators Specialization(s)
- EERA FCS Website
- Back to School
- UGA On-Line Food Preservation Course
- Branding Photo Strips Available
- New Workshops and Websites
- 2009 NEAFCS Award Winners
- Kudos
- Happy Retirement
- Chowline
- Leadership Moments
- Dates to Remember
- Upcoming National Conferences
- Helpful Links
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All OSU Extension professionals are encouraged to attend Annual Conference this year. It will be December 16-17 in Columbus. This year’s conference theme is “A New EERA in Extension.” You are encouraged to submit a proposal for a seminar, poster session, or display booth. You can find the call for proposals on our FCS website. It will be on the OAEP website (http://oeaa.osu.edu/index.htm) in the near future. Contact Kara Newby, knewby@ehe.osu.edu, with questions.
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This annual award, sponsored by Epsilon Sigma Phi and OSU Extension, recognizes a superior Extension educator with a cash award of $1,000, plus the addition of $1,000 to the base salary. Any Extension employee who is a current member of Epsilon Sigma Phi is eligible. Go to http://ohioesp.osu.edu/forms/forms.htm for the nomination process details.
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The Families, Food, and Fitness Community of Practice launches this month on eXtension: http://www.extension.org/families_food_fitness. This virtual educational environment is targeted to families with young children. It introduces interactive features, such as a recipe database, fast food menu helper, and a spice-food pairing suggestions. If you’ve not already, check it out! It is a great interactive learning resource to help you help families make informed decisions about healthy eating and physical activity.
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The Managing in Tough Times resource directory, MiTTNet, officially launched this month. The directory can be accessed at: http://mittnet.extension.org/. Over 900 resources can be found in individual and family, farm and ranch, community, and youth topic areas. You can view a web seminar that demonstrates the site and highlights its contents at: http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p78987985/.
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As mentioned in the Video Communiqué, it is not the intent of the restructuring model to have people work in one program area only. All educators must work in cross-program areas as appropriate - especially in this time of restructuring and transition. Educators may be assigned to one program area as a priority/specialization, but you have always been asked to cross-programmatically and share expertise as necessary. Your positive attitude about the restructuring process has been helpful as we work through the details of this new mode of operation. (Source: July 1, 2009 Communiqué)
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A good example for cross-programming is . . . . Annie's Project. It covers topics taught by both ANR educators and FCS educators. This is a great program for women in agriculture, as it touches on a variety of farm and family management topics. Doris Herringshaw and Julia Woodruff, Erie Basin EERA and leaders of Annie’s Project, are targeting each EERA. They have developed a step-by-step guide to planning and hosting a workshop and can offer some funding support to purchase the Annie’s Notebooks and the Real Colors Cards.
In a memo to ANR educators this week, Assistant Director Don Breece said, “I have participated in several workshops and found each one to be FULL of enthusiastic women, eager to learn about the agriculture/horticulture industry and increase their productive involvement within the family business. It is a great opportunity to team with FCS Educators”. Contact Julie Woodruff at 419-627-7631 at woodruff.94@osu.edu or visit http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Annie/ for program details.
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On-the-job photos are needed for the OAEP display board at the August County Commissioners Days. Photos that represent all program areas and all regions are needed. Please forward any photos and captions showing OAEP members doing hands-on Extension activities to Connie Goble, Ohio Valley Educator goble.6@osu.edu by Monday, August 10.
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Check out our new Ohio State Extension FCS blog, named "Eat, Save, and Be Happy.” You will find it at http://osufcs.wordpress.com/. Kara Newby (HDFS), Julie Shertzer (HN), Linnette Goard (Western Reserve), Melinda Hill (Crossroads), Cora French-Robinson (Heart of Ohio), and Sharon Seiling (CS) are the current bloggers. Let Kara or Julie know if you have topics you’d like to see addressed.
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The ADs are working with RDs and EERA Leaders to see if we can coordinate meeting schedules for this fall. We’re still working on the details, so stay tuned for dates for our Fall Dialogues. I value these opportunities for us to meet and discuss FCS programming efforts.
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Pat Holmes, Miami Valley EERA, will continue her state Universal Design assignment. One of her major responsibilities is to coordinate staffing and provide oversight for the educational Universal Design exhibit at the Farm Science Review, September 22-24. If you would like to volunteer your time and services to help staff the exhibit, contact Pat at holmes.86@osu.edu. As a quick reminder, Universal Design is a set of architectural principles to create home and work environments that are easy to use for all ages and abilities. Visit http://ehe.osuledu/ud to learn more about Universal Design. On-line resources include: PowerPoint presentations, fact sheets, home and personal assessment work sheets, and DVD video clips on kitchens and baths. Each county Extension office received a copy of the DVD. Additional copies of the DVD are available for $5.00 at the OSU Extension eStore. If you want to know more about this cooperative state project with OSU Extension, on-campus faculty, Lowe's, and Dave Fox Remodeling, just contact Pat!
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Thanks to a new partnership between the Kroger Co. and the Center for Innovative Food Technology, consumers can now contact OSU Extension's Food Safety Hotline at (800) 752-2751 (toll-free in Ohio), available weekdays from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. EHE experts from the Department of Human Nutrition and OSU Extension, along with personnel from the Food Industries Center and the Department of Food Science and Technology, support a team of three students who respond to consumers’ questions. The hotline has been operated since 1985 by Ohio State's Food Industries Center; however, a grant from CIFT, with support from Kroger, has allowed the university to hire the students. Lydia Medeiros, Julie Shertzer, Janet Buffer and Gina Casagrande, are also involved. The plan is to involve the self-identified “food safety” leader from each EERA. (Source: EHE News)
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Thanks to Cindy Maher and Laura Butts, we now have almost all educators specialization(s) in the personnel database, which can be found at: http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~directory/SearchPers.php. We hope this will be very useful for support staff as they begin to field questions to educators with a particular specialization within their EERA. (Source: Garee Earnest)
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The FCS EERA website is a handy place to share helpful resources and ideas you develop for conducting EEERA programming. As one example, you can find the Quick Guide and client tracking spreadsheet template FCS educators in the Ohio Valley developed to help offices respond to food preservation questions. If you have resources you would like to post, email to Kirk (bloir.1@osu.edu).
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Don’t forget that a benefit of being an OSU employee is tuition remission (in other words, classes are FREE). AEE 795.01 Seminar: Contemporary Issues & Problems in Agricultural and Extension Education is being offered this Fall. It is an on-line course available 24/7, Call # 26610, 3 credits for S/U ‘grade. For more information contact Dr. Scott Scheer at scheer.9@osu.edu or 614-292-6758.
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Anyone interested in learning basic canning can enroll in the UGA’s, University of Georgia, online course, Preserving Food at Home: A Self-Study. It covers: Introduction to Food Preservation, General Canning, Canning Acid Foods, and Canning Low-Acid Foods. This free course is appropriate for anyone interested in learning more - educators, volunteers, or consumers. The website is https://www.uga.edu/nchfp/exception_account.html.
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Looking for FCS-specific, ready-to-use branding strips? Look on the CommTech Templates website to find several options. Scroll down the page and click on the numbers | 11.1 | 11.2 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 14.1 | 14.2 | for FCS content. Keep in the mind the idea behind the OSU Extension branding photo strips is to show clientele (real people) enjoying the benefits (healthy, happy, productive lives) of our programs, more so than the content of the programs. According to Social Identity Theory, people are more likely to be drawn to positive images of people or situations they want to be a part of, or already consider themselves a part of. That’s part of the reason it is important for all of us to use branding!
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Upcoming Grantsmanship Workshops, sponsored by CSREES, provide overviews of its competitive grants, including program goals and priorities; the grant evaluation process; and past funding statistics. Researchers, educators, extension specialists, and administrators are invited to attend.
For more information, go to: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/business/training/cpworkshops.html
Find and Apply for Government Grants - Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal government grants: http://www.grants.gov/.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans " Nationally, Extension is supporting and promoting the comprehensive science-based guidance on physical activity for Americans. Find out more at: http://www.hhs.gov/news/facts/physicalactivityguidelines.html.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been published jointly every 5 years since 1980 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Guidelines provide Information for people two years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce risk for major chronic diseases. The guidelines serve as the basis for Federal food and nutrition education programs at http://www.health.gov/DietaryGuidelines/.
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- Distinguished Service Award- Lisa Barlage (Ohio Valley) and Nancy Stehulak (Maumee Valley)
- Continued Excellence Award- Melinda Hill (Crossroads) and Kathy Oliver (Top of Ohio)
- Healthy Lifestyles Education Grant- Central Region Winner- Cora French-Robinson (Heart of Ohio)
- Environmental Education-Central Region Winner- Cindy Oliveri (State Specialist)
- Communications -Newsletters- 1st Central Region Winner- Cindy Shuster (Buckeye Hills); 2nd Central Region Winner - Cindy Oliveri
- Communications -Radio/Podcast- 2nd National Winners and 1st Central Region Winner- Beth Gaydos (Buckeye Hills)
- Communications - Television/Video-1st National Winner and 1st Central Region Winner-Dan Remley (Miami Valley)
- Community Partnerships- Central Region Winner-Cindy Oliveri
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Several of our FCS professionals have much to celebrate. Congratulations to . . .
Marisa Warrix, Greg Siek, Robin Stone and Monica Fink (Western Reserve EERA) were first place winners for the" Show, Tell and Win" contest sponsored by the Ohio Latino Work Force group for the development of bilingual nutrition educational materials for Hispanic home child care providers.
Monadine Mattey (Ohio Valley EERA), the Pike County Dining With Diabetes Program, Nutri-Cise Surprise, Pike County Diabetes Support Group and the Pike County Diabetes Coalition recently received the following funds: $500 from Abbott Labs - Anthony Petrocelli; $3,000 - Appalachian Diabetes Control and Translation Project from Marshall University; and $4,000 - "Diabetes - A Family Matter" from Ohio University.
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Congratulations to Susan Crusey, Top of Ohio EERA, and long-time Logan County FCS Educator, who retired effective July 31, 2009 after 36 years of service with OSU Extension. Please join me in sending her best wishes on her new journey.
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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 matters. To read the latest edition, Tomatoes loaded with health benefitsby Julie Shertzer, Program Specialist in Human Nutrition, go to: http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=5290.
Martha also writes a monthly Family Fundamentals that focuses on Human Development/Family Sciences and Consumer Sciences (alternating each month). Kara Newby, HDFS Program Coordinator, contributes Financial stresses can put strain on relationship. It can be found at: http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=5279.
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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“A shared vision is one thing: groupthink is another. Groupthink is faulty decision making. It happens when group members always want to be in agreement and members openly agree with a perceived group position even if individual group members privately disagree. It happens when members see themselves as highly cohesive and part of a special, distinctive group and as doing important work toward a common goal. They feel they are in an in-group, a clique if you will, that becomes more important than saying anything that may disrupt people’s feelings of belonging.
To avoid groupthink, consider all members’ views before making decisions. Bring in outside experts, and research how similar decisions have worked out in different organizations. Encourage all members to speak up, and avoid squelching members who express outlying or unusual idea (London & London, 2007, p. 33)
Reference: London, M., & London, M. (2007). First-time leaders of small groups: how to create high-performing committees, task forces, clubs, and boards. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.
First-Time Leaders of Small Groups is available on loan from the Ohio State University Leadership Center. To borrowthis resource or any other resource, please go to the resource search page http://164.107.48.88/winnebago/index.asp?lib=???
Learn how the Ohio State University Leadership Center is strengthening tomorrow's leaders today at http://leadershipcenter.osu.edu/
(Leadership Moments is reprinted with permission from the OSU Leadership Center.)
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- August 19-20, 2009 County Commissioners Days, Medina County
- September 22-24, 2009 Farm Science Review
- September 29, 2009 Tween Topics: Learn to Communicate About Key Issue with Youth Moving from Childhood to Adolescence In-service, Ohio 4-H Center
- October 9, 2009 Creating OSU Extension Curriculum In-service, On-site Training
- November 4-5, 2009 EFNEP/FNP Annual Conference, Quest Center, Columbus OH
- December 16-17, 2009 OSU Extension Annual Conference
Upcoming National Conferences
- September 14-19, 2009 NEAFCS Annual Conference, Birmingham, AL
- November 4-6, 2009 Housing Education & Research Association (HERA) Conference, Santa Fe NM, http://www.housingeducators.org/
- November 11-14, 2009 NCFR Annual Conference, San Francisco
- June 24-27, 2010 AAFCS Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH
- September 20-24, 2010 NEAFCS Annual Conference, Portland, ME
- September 26-30, 2011 NEAFCS Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New México
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OSU Extension Communiqué - http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~intranet/news_matrix.php?newsletter=1
Extension Intranet Calendar - http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~intranet/
Extension Family and Consumer Sciences - http://fcs.osu.edu/FCS Blog - http://osufcs.wordpress.com/
Family Nutrition Program - http://fnp.osu.edu/
Extension Human Development & Family Science - http://families.osu.edu/additional-resources/program_materials/index.php
Extension Human Nutrition - http://fcs.osu.edu/hn/
Extension Consumer Sciences - http://fcs.osu.edu/cs/
OSU CARES - http://osucares.osu.edu/grants/Seed%20Grants%20RFP%202008.doc
Communication & Technology - http://commtech.ag.ohio-state.edu/
Photo Library - http://photolib.ag.ohio-state.edu/
Templates - http://ct.excelcomm.com/site/indexer/237/content.htm
IRB - http://orrp.osu.edu/irb/about/
Fit 2B Fathers - http://fcs.osu.edu/f2bf/index.php
eXtension - http://www.extension.org/
OAEP - http://oeaa.osu.edu/
ESP - http://www.espnational.org/
Journal of Extension - http://www.joe.org/
The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues - http://ncsu.edu/ffci/
National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences - http://www.neafcs.org/
American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences - http://www.aafcs.org/
National Council on Family Relations - http://www.ncfr.org/
National Council on Aging - http://www.ncoa.org/index.cfm?bType=ie4
USDA's/CREES CYFERnet (Children, Youth, Family Educational Resource Network) - http://www.cyfernet.org/
MyMoney.gov - http://www.mymoney.gov/
Jill Eversole Nolan, PhD
The Ohio State University
Assistant Director, Family and Consumer Sciences
Ohio State University Extension
College of Education and Human Ecology
381 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Off 614.247.2543
Fax 614.292.7478
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