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Dads are relaxed in online sessions and kids are trying healthy new foods, like a quesadilla so delicious a daughter sneaks off with the entire round.
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Antonio Alba Meraz, an Extension educator with the Latino Financial Literacy Program, has been helping to fill in the gaps for Minnesota’s Latino audiences.
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Extension family resiliency educators are offering webinars around finances during crisis, health and wellness connections, parenting and letting go of clutter and more.
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Child care providers across Minnesota are talented and often very busy juggling tasks. To help, providers can sign up to receive health, nutrition and physical activity text messages twice a week.
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Learn about a creative approach to involve American Indian youth in active learning experiences that make financial education concepts relevant to their everyday decision making.
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Parents and caregivers have wrestled with the question of how to explain racial injustice, racism, and uprisings to their children. Here are a few common questions and some suggestions.
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Cass Clay Food Partners (CCFP) took action to fill the communication gap about access to healthy foods. Noelle Harden, Extension health and nutrition educator from the Moorhead Regional Office, is at the heart of CCFP