Family and Consumer Sciences

Family and Consumer Sciences in Page County offers a variety of programming.  The programming stems from three major areas.  Those areas are:

Family Financial Management
Consumer Education, Saving Money, Consumer Fraud, Identity Theft,  Budgeting, etc.

Food, Nutrition, and Health

Adult Chronic Disease Prevention & Management, Child & Adolescent Nutrition & Fitness, Safe Food Handling & Preparation, Food Preservation, and Health Promotion

Family and Human Development

Developmental Stages of Parenting & Family Life, Parenting Education and Family Support

Agents use a variety of methods to convey educational information. Topics are often covered in a workshop format. These workshops range in time from 1 - 6 hours.  These workshops can be informational (lecture style) or interactive (hands on). Topics are also covered through newsletters, news articles, publications and one on one consultations.  

ServSafe

This 10-hour Food Safety Management Course was developed by the Education Foundation of the National Restaurant Association.  The ServSafe Course is for Managers of food service operations.  The following is a Brochure for Classes that will be available in the area the Spring of 2012.   Spring 2012 ServSafe Class Brochure (PDF | 531KB)

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