FCS Program Areas
 All FCS programs fall into
  four program areas:

  Family Resource Management

  Food, Nutrition & Health

  Food Safety

  Human Development

    Human Development

Bee Wise...Immunize

Bee Wise…Immunize is an immunization education curriculum developed by Michigan State University Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences program. The target audience is parents of young children.

Building Strong Adolescents

The Building Strong Adolescents program is designed to assist parents in creating a plan to help adolescents ages 13-16 develop character and maturity to make the right decisions in life in an effort to eliminate their involvement in at-risk behaviors.

Building Strong Families

In 1989, the Extension Home Economics Program developed a comprehensive parenting program called "Building Strong Families: Parenting Young Children." "Building Strong Families" is designed to deliver parenting information to limited-resource parents of children aged 0 to 3 in small groups or one-on-one.

Don’t Croak

Don’t Croak is a passive smoke education curriculum developed by Michigan State university Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences program. The target audience is parents and caregivers of young children. The curriculum includes four lessons covering the following topics:

• The need to eliminate children’s exposure to secondhand smoke
• Risks related to exposure to secondhand smoke
• Anti-exposure techniques for use around the home and in public arenas
• Assertiveness skills for exposure reduction

Financial & Housing Matters

The Financial Literacy and Housing program at Michigan State University Extension is dedicated to: “Helping people improve their lives through an educational process that applies knowledge to critical needs, issues, and opportunities.”

This website is designed to assist individuals and families in gaining understanding in basic financial management and housing related topics through web-based resources and educational tools.

Home Safe Kids

Home Safe Kids is designed to educate and inform parents about the dangers of household environmental hazards and provide them with the opportunity to protect their children. Excessive exposure to environmental hazards has been linked to several social, physical and mental conditions.

Immunization Education

Michigan State University Extension and the Michigan Department of Community Health have joined together to develop tools and training to help raise Michigan's immunization rate and promote better health among all citizens.

Take Charge of Your Diabetes

Through funding from Medicaid, MSU Extension in conjunction with the MSU Department of Family Practice has developed and implemented a health behavior change program to address the lifestyle management of type 2 diabetes in Medicaid-eligible population in Michigan. Take Charge of Your Diabetes is a modification of the successful program, Sticking to It for Diabetes, which was designed to encourage behavior change in a variety of nutrition and health areas. Take Charge of Your Diabetes is designed to help participants feel empowered to take control of their own health.

Watch Me Grow - Healthy, Happy and Strong! Calendar

Being a parent is a tough job, wouldn't you agree? It is often tough to know who to turn to for information about parenting, nutrition, safety and many other issues that arise in families. Now there is something to help!

The Watch Me Grow calendar is specifically designed for families with young children in Michigan. Each month highlights a different program - offering both program information and telephone numbers. Activities and tips for parents are also offered throughout the calendar providing information on health, safety, nutrition and parenting.