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
Help your clients learn the basics about planning for future health care decisions by creating a health care directive.
Research-informed practical strategies to protect your family relationships when passing on personal possessions.
Financial education and housing
Toolkits designed for professionals working with people who want to learn about financial capability covering a number of topics for adult learners such as credit, debt and making financial decisions.
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.
Navigate the rental process with this free online course.
Get trained on utilizing the RentWise curriculum.
Health and nutrition
Cooking Matters offer practical nutrition information, hands-on food preparation, and food budgeting and shopping.
Create special memories in the kitchen with this fun club designed for preschool-aged children and their parents, grandparents and caregivers.
Mental health
A two-hour training that will teach you how to support others who may seem sad, anxious, distracted, or depressed.
The Nourish and Flourish conversation guides promote physical health through nutrition and physical activity while fostering connections to mental wellbeing.
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.