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Understanding Motivations Among Sustained Cooperative Extension Partners For Obesity Prevention In Rural Louisiana, Catherine R. Losavio
Understanding Motivations Among Sustained Cooperative Extension Partners For Obesity Prevention In Rural Louisiana, Catherine R. Losavio
LSU Master's Theses
Louisiana consistently has one of the highest rates of obesity in the nation with higher concentrations of obesity in many rural parishes (i.e., counties). Due to over a century of visibility and engagement in rural communities, Cooperative Extension (Extension) is uniquely poised to reach remote rural communities disproportionately impacted by obesity. As Extension increases its use of community coalitions and implements its new National Framework for Health Equity and Well-Being, understanding motivations and communication preferences among long-term rural coalition partners for obesity prevention and health promotion has become essential for duplicating successful local-level policy, system, and environmental (PSE) changes. This …
Covid-19_Umaine News_Carter Recent Guest In ‘Maine Calling’ Segment About Mainers Helping Each Other During Pandemic, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications
Covid-19_Umaine News_Carter Recent Guest In ‘Maine Calling’ Segment About Mainers Helping Each Other During Pandemic, University Of Maine Division Of Marketing And Communications
Division of Marketing & Communications
Screenshot of UMaine in the News regarding Maine Public featuring Hannah Carter, Dean of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, on a segment of 'Maine Calling' about how Mainers have helped one another during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Recognition Preferences Of Ontario County 4-H Volunteers, Sarah Bagley
The Recognition Preferences Of Ontario County 4-H Volunteers, Sarah Bagley
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The 4-H program relies on volunteers to deliver quality youth programing to the local community. Therefore, volunteer management is an important job of a 4-H educator. The Ontario County 4-H program utilizes 94 volunteers who serve a variety of roles within the program, and the retention of these volunteers is important to the program’s continued success. Older volunteer studies have found that volunteer recognition is an important aspect of volunteer satisfaction and retention. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the characteristics of current Ontario county 4-H volunteers, understand the underlying motivations and recognition preferences of these volunteers, determine if correlations …
Nexus 2014/15: Carver 150th, Cooperative Extension 100th, And 1890 Land Grant 125th Birth Year Anniversaries, Walter A. Hill
Nexus 2014/15: Carver 150th, Cooperative Extension 100th, And 1890 Land Grant 125th Birth Year Anniversaries, Walter A. Hill
Professional Agricultural Workers Journal
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From Farm Results Demonstrations To Multistate Impact Designs: Cooperative Extension Navigates Its Way Through Evaluation Pathways, Allison Nichols, Stephanie M. Blake, Scott Chazdon, Rama Radhakrishna
From Farm Results Demonstrations To Multistate Impact Designs: Cooperative Extension Navigates Its Way Through Evaluation Pathways, Allison Nichols, Stephanie M. Blake, Scott Chazdon, Rama Radhakrishna
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension
This article explores how evaluation has been developed and expanded within the Cooperative Extension system, from the beginning of agricultural education in America in 1800 to the present day. Important periods across the history of Extension evaluation have been identified and categorized according to major themes and significant contributions of Extension individuals and organizations. Challenges for the future of evaluation within Extension are discussed.