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Parent & Family Advocacy and Support Training (PFAST) Starts May 1st at CAARE Inc.
Extension partners with CAARE, Inc. to offer workshops to help parents navigate public schools Starting Wednesday May 1st, Durham Cooperative Extension in partnership with CAARE, Inc offers the popular … MORE »Posted: 4/26/13Extension & Community Association Celebrates Centennial with Commemorative Bricks
Two-thousand thirteen is a significant year for the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service and for North Carolina families. This is the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Extension … MORE »Posted: 3/8/13“PASTA” series for Grandparents
“PASTA” series for Grandparents ……. Parenting A Second Time Around ! 2012 A support/update series for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren with a focus on stress management , family strengths, … MORE »Posted: 10/10/12Parent & Family Advocacy and Support Training (PFAST) Starts October 9th
Do you want to better navigate our public and charter schools to help your child succeed? Have you received your child’s first progress report and it is not what … MORE »Posted: 10/5/12Program Teaches Participants to Shop Smart
Read all about it! Click Here This article was written by Natalie Hampton http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agcomm/news-center/perspectives/program-helps-participants-learn-to-shop-smart/Posted: 9/18/12The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program is Back!
After more than 20 years, The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) www.ces.ncsu.edu/EFNEP/ is back in Durham County helping limited resource families with young children through practical lessons on: … MORE »Posted: 2/29/12A new YOU is within reach!
Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less is a 15 week weight-management program that uses strategies proven to work. Each lesson informs, empowers and motivates participants to live mindfully as … MORE »Posted: 1/29/12Durham ECA – A Century of Strong Women Bringing Prosperity and Progress to Durham County
The year, 2011, was a historical year for Cooperative Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences and the Extension and Community Association. It marked the one-hundredth anniversary of improving the quality … MORE »Posted: 6/15/11Building our Economy with Local Foods
The Durham County Center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension is an enthusiastic supporter of the Center for Environmental Farming Systems’ (CEFS) initiative to build the state’s local food economy, … MORE »Posted: 6/15/12Do you long to improve your skills as a parent?
Parenting Matters is a hands-on, creative learning program for parents who want to make a difference in their child’s life and improve their parent-child relationship. If you are interested … MORE »Posted: 6/12/12Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Powerful Tools is a six week series designed to provide caregivers with the tools needed to decrease stress as they care for loved ones. Caregivers learn to reduce … MORE »Posted: 6/12/12Homemakers and Family and Consumer Sciences
Last year, 2011, was a historical year for Cooperative Extension’s Family and Consumer Sciences and the Extension and Community Association. In 2011 Extension marked the one-hundredth anniversary of improving … MORE »Posted: 6/12/12New Car Seat YouTube video
We are on YouTube with our first ever Durham how to video– Keeping Your Baby Safe: Installing a Convertible Car Seat for your Infant Part I Our own Certified … MORE »Posted: 9/7/11LINKS
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