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July 16, 2009
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CHILD SAFETY-- Child safety is a major concern for any parent. Injuries are the leading cause of death in children from age one to 14, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Nearly 70 percent of these fatalities occur in children under age four. Most of these deaths could be prevented with proper precautions. Please join us as we discuss and learn methods for keeping your family safe and healthy. |
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August 2009
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HOME MAINTENANCE & HOUSEKEEPING—This program provides tips to help you lower your utility bills, a seasonal checklist for general home maintenance, suggestions for caring for your home including both interior and exterior aspects. |
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September 2009 |
MY PYRAMID—My pyramid offers personalized eating plans to help you plan your food choices. This program will help you learn how to stay within your daily calories needs, make smart choices from each food group, and find your balance between food and physical activity. Come learn steps to a healthier you! |
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October 2009
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DISCRETIONARY CALORIES--Everyone needs a certain number of calories to keep their bodies functioning and providing energy for physical activities. Think of the calories you need for energy like money you have to spend. Each person has a total calorie “budget.” This budget can be divided into “essentials” and “extras.” Come learn how to make the best “nutrient buys.” |
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November 2009
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Eat Right When Money is Tight—This program focuses on helping families to utilize money-saving shopping skills such as increasing meal planning, decreasing large amounts of convenience foods, using a list to shop for food and comparison shopping, just to name a few |
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December 2009
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FOOD SAFETY—Right now there is an invisible enemy in your kitchen. It is called “bacteria” and it can make your whole family sick, especially children and older adults. Even though you can’t see or smell “bacteria”, it can invade your food. This program will help you learn to keep food safe from harmful bacteria by learning steps of cleaning, separating food to prevent cross-contamination, cooking foods to proper temperature and chilling properly. |
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January 2010 |
DOLLAR DECISIONS 1—Activities are provided to help participants identify their own money styles and how they developed them, and get simple tools to help their families plan to have what they want and need. |
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February 2010 |
DOLLAR DECISIONS 2—Participants have learned the difference between wants and needs, now it is time to practice allocating resources, learn to negotiate with others about spending decisions, and make a spending and savings plan that will help reduce the stress of not knowing whether you have the money to pay bills when they are due. |
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March 2010 |
BALANCING WORK & FAMILY—Time is a valuable resource. It is limited to 24 hours every day, no matter who you are or what you do. Everyone uses time in different ways according to their culture, circumstances and priorities. Being aware of time and how it is used may improve our time management skills. |
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April 2010 |
STRENGTHENING COMMUNICATIONS--Strong families communicate. They talk. They share themselves. They share their feelings, hopes, dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, experiences, growth and needs. They take the time to listen and respond to what others have to say. This workshop will look at a number of things that can improve family communication. |
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May 2010 |
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES—Despite the stress and troubles that families face, there are ways to keep the family strong. This program presents information on the definition of the family, the function and roles of families, types of families, and nine characteristics of strong families identified by researchers. The information and activities shared celebrate existing family strengths and encourage skill development to create stronger families. |
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June 2010 |
POSITIVE GUIDANCE AND DISCIPLINE—This program presents a perspective toward child discipline and guidance that considers the unique needs of different situations and different ages of children. The following concepts will be discussed: the difference between discipline and guidance, stages of child development and corresponding methods of discipline and guidance; the relationship between parenting behaviors and child outcomes and positive methods of child discipline and guidance |
Classes are Present by:
Ann M. Schwader, Extension Educator
Family & Consumer Sciences
SDSU Cooperative Extension
Service - Gregory County
*** The dates of these classes are subject to change. If this should happen, Habitat for Humanity will contact you with the new date.