Education makes a difference, and it can help you achieve your goals. We contract with communities, non-profits, professional associations and many other types of organizations to create training that applies Extension's research-based education to your sponsoring organization's needs.
Health, nutrition and movement
Cooking matters
Train-the-trainer
A cooking-based, nutrition education program that encourages people to eat healthier and make the best use of their food resources.
Real Life, Good Food
Free access
A website with recipes, cooking tips, and physical activity ideas for a healthier life.
Rusty's Cooking Club
Free access
A club connecting preschool-aged children with their caregivers. Members receive monthly recipe packets to create special memories in the kitchen.
Eat, Move, and Learn Together
Free access
Curriculum is for nutrition educators partnering with English-language learning (ELL) teachers.
Walking with Ease
Free download
Resources and support to deliver the Arthritis Foundation's Walk with Ease program using the Self-Directed/Enhanced Model.
Classroom Energizers teacher workshop
Train-the-trainer
Training for teachers to encourage physical activity in the classroom.
Finances and housing
Building Blocks for Financial Capability
Free download
A toolkit designed for professionals working with people who want to learn about financial capability.
Financial Educator Certificate
Train-the-trainer
An online course for community-based professionals to help others learn how to build assets and improve financial well-being.
Renter 101
Free online course
An online course to help renters navigate the rental process, including strategies to choose, secure and maintain housing.
Rentwise
Train-the-trainer
Do you want to help others become successful renters? Contact us to request an in-person training.
Later life
Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate?
Train-the-trainer
Rsearch informed practical strategies to protect your family relationships when passing on personal possessions.
Health care directive workshop
Train-the-trainer
Help your clients learn the basics about planning for future health care decisions by creating a health care directive.
Mental health
Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET)
Train-the-trainer
Interactive training program designed to help people support others who may seem sad, anxious, distracted, or depressed.
Nourish and Flourish
Free access
The Nourish and Flourish conversation guides promote health through nutrition and physical activity while fostering connections to mental wellbeing.
Connecting with Nature
Free access
Learn to help families with children incorporate nature into their family life.
Parenting
Parenting with a good heart
Free access
An exploration of overindulgence and how you to avoid it with children. Appropriate for parents, teachers and professionals.
Test of Four
Free access
This tool guides parents and children in making responsible decisions to promote self-control and to prevent overindulging children.
Education: Our Best Legacy
Train-the-trainer
A school success program designed for parents or caregivers with one or more children in middle school.
Youth development
Intentional and engaging outdoor learning experiences provide young people with a unique opportunity for transformation and growth.
Proper risk management ensures that programs are designed, implemented and evaluated in a way that makes member safety a priority and is emphasized throughout the entire program.
This training will improve the quality of your STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) programs, lessons and activities by helping you to identify, incorporate and facilitate the core components of science and engineering processes.
Shift to a positive youth development approach to behavior management. Learn both how to prevent many behavior issues and strategies for when things don't go as planned.
Different from lesson or event planning, program planning takes a big-picture look at the youth needs and assets of a community to make decisions about how a youth program can address those needs.
While high quality programs have a positive impact on youth, poor quality programs can actually do harm. Learn what goes on inside quality programs to intentionality influence positive outcomes.
This course is designed to engage participants in an in-depth look at Weikart’s Youth Program Quality pyramid and the research that supports the framework.
Discover the benefits of using teens as teachers and the essential elements needed to create an impactful learning environment for the teens, their younger peers and the adult liaison.
Youth workers address challenging situations in their daily work with young people. In this class, participants will dig into the sticky challenges and issues of youth work and examine various ways to respond to real-life problems in their program.
This training builds an understanding of how to support social emotional learning (SEL). Participants explore practices that introduce SEL opportunities into existing programs. They walk away with ways to support social emotional skill growth.