Family & Community Health

Lauren Fein, Family & Community Health Faculty Staff/Mid-Columbia Area SNAP-Ed Coordinator
Joy Lee, SNAP-Ed Program Assistant

State Office of Family and Community Health Website

Oregon State University's Extension Family & Community Health (FCH) program serves Oregonians through education, community partnerships, and action. FCH focuses on programs that will promote healthy communities, healthy families, and healthy individuals.

OSU Food Preservation Website

OSU Food Hero Website

This website is for people who find they need to ask for help--people who may have recently lost a job, a home, or may be having a hard time making ends meet. Locating such basic resources as food, shelter, employment, or health care can mean stumbling through a maze of agencies before making the right connections. People looking for help may not know where to being.

OSU Extension has compiled a list of state resources, community services, and information to help people find the help they need in these tough times. The list is not -- cannot be -- absolutely complete. It is meant to help people get started. We will continue to add links and information as it is developed.

As the devastation of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami become more evident, those of us who live along the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire" wonder if we'll be prepared for an equally destructive quake and its tsunami that could come to our doorsteps at any time.

To help prepare, the Extension and Experiment Station Communications (EESC) office has just completed an update of its webpage "It Could Happen to You: Be Prepared for Natural Disasters" at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/tough_times/emergency/natural-disasters

"The three things you need to know about tsunamis" on the front page gets directly to the issue.

Other resources are:

• Ten Common Misunderstandings about Tsunamis

• Reaching Higher Ground: Prepare for tsunamis
  Oregon Sea Grant Extension videos about tsunami preparedness

• Oregonians need to be ready for both types of tsunamis
  Information from OSU Extension Service, Clatsop County

• When disaster hits: What you can do to recover
  Information from OSU Family and Community Health

• Learn how to avoid tsunami hazards and threats
  Information from Extension Disaster Education Network

• Information on wildfire, floods, power failure, terrorism, pandemic disease and more
  Information from OSU Extension Service, Gilliam County

• Is your home at risk of flooding?
  Information from Extension Disaster Education Network

Also, learn about your community's disaster plan and create a plan for your family, home and office with "It Could Happen to You" publications developed by the OSU Extension Service.

Monthly Lessons for 2011 - 2012

September:  The Healing Power of Foods: Berries, Nuts & Seafood

October:  Elder Abuse in Oregon

November:   Pantry Pests

December:   Microwaveable Candies

January:  (weather permitting) Invasive and Poisonous Plants & Edible Plnt Safety

February:  Taking Charge of Your Medical Care & POLST

March:  Sweet Potatoes, Yams, and Onions

April:  Cultural Meeting - To Be Determined

May: Multicultural Miscommunication

Current Active Study Groups in the Hood River Area including Mosier.