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Family & Community Health Sciences
Staying healthy, raising healthy children, and eating right are the focus of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) outreach programs. The FCHS program provides research-based information on food, nutrition, fitness, health, and food safety. Each year FCHS provides classes, workshops and exhibits; sends out Visions and County Visions, the FCHS department newsletter; and reaches about 26,000 households with a monthly newspaper column in the Sunday New Jersey Herald. Our goal is to improve the health of New Jersey individuals, families, and communities.
FCHS Focus Areas
Nutrition, Health, & Lifestyle
- Healthy Eating
- MyPyramid
- Child Nutrition
- Family Nutrition
- Obesity
- Osteoporosis
- Stretching the Food Budget
- Fad Diets
- School Nutrition
Food Safety
- Home Food Safety
- Living With Food Allergies
These courses are developed to address the needs of the county and provide information that is accurate, reliable, current, and research-based. Our programs are offered throughout the county and are frequently presented in collaboration with local agencies and organizations as seminars and workshops.
