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Training for organizations

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.

Later Life

Financial education and housing

An online course that helps learners deepen their own financial knowledge while empowering them to educate others on managing resources, building assets, and improving financial well-being.

Health and nutrition

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

Mental health

Youth development

A hand stopping a line of dominoes from falling.

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.

4-H team cheers because their engineering project succeeded.

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.

people having a snowball fight

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.

kids drawing gears with chalk

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.

kids sitting around a table talking and writing

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.

kids pointing at camera

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.

teen shows kids how to make a lego model

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.

Two "One Way" street signs pointing in opposite directions on a city street.

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.

Teens sitting on a brick wall outside while talking.

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.

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