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Customized education

Community economics

Coaching and training for local business retention

Is your community ready to launch a business retention initiative in Minnesota? Extension offers training, facilitation and expert advice to community leaders to help you move through the process.

Financial education

Tax education for professionals

Income tax preparation, agricultural tax issues, timber management and taxation

Your Money, Your Goals

This toolkit equips frontline staff with tools and skills to empower clients in understanding their own financial situations and connects them to resources available in their community.

Who Gets Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate?™

Offer this workshop to your group to provide the basics on transferring non-titled property.

Leadership and civic engagement

Community leadership programs

Extension works with sponsors of leadership and civic engagement programs to grow local leadership. Learn about programs happening across Minnesota.

Participatory funding

Training and resources for incorporating participatory funding into your work.

Health and nutrition training

Cooking Matters Minnesota courses

Cooking Matters courses offer practical nutrition information, hands-on food preparation, and food budgeting and shopping.

Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities

Systems Approaches for Healthy Communities is a web-based, professional development program. It promotes the integration of policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) interventions with educational strategies.

Classroom Energizers teacher workshop

This workshop is for classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, and other school staff.

Health care directive workshop

Arrange for us to come and teach on this important topic. Excellent resource for employee groups, community organizations, and more.

Pesticide safety and environmental education

Pesticide safety certification and resources

Pesticide education and resources for certified and licensed applicators, those seeking certification, and other professionals

Commercial, noncommercial pesticide applicators

Recertification workshops, testing and training for licensed commercial and noncommercial pesticide applicators

Private pesticide applicators

Recertification workshops, testing and training for those who apply restricted use pesticides (RUPs) to their own land or sites for the production of agricultural commodities

Structural pesticide applicators

Recertification workshops for people who apply pesticides on, in, under or around structures

Youth development programs

Dilemmas in Youth Work

Dig into the sticky challenges and issues of youth work and examine various ways to respond to real-life problems in their program.

Social and Emotional Learning

This training suite will help you design programs to support SEL, recognize and respond to unexpected opportunities to learn and practice SEL skills, and apply resources and activities from our SEL toolkit.

WeConnect

WeConnect is both a program model and a curriculum that helps young people see that they are participants in a global society. It prepares them to thrive in culturally-diverse settings. Developed for middle school-aged youth, but can be adapted for other age groups.

Youth Teaching Youth

The 4-H Youth Teaching Youth program trains teens to take an active role in the teaching and leading of healthy living curriculum to their younger counterparts.

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