Managing in Tough Times Promotional Paragraph

From Extension Collaborative Wiki

Managing in Tough Times National Extension Initiative

Few Americans are exempt from the stresses of the national financial and economic crisis. As a result, the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy [ECOP] Program Committee has initiated a collaborative effort to mobilize Extension’s capabilities to provide relevant, community-based educational programs on a national scale to complement what is already at www.extension.org. The project will involve the content areas of individual and family financial and sress management, farm and ranch financial and risk management, community economic development, and youth development.

For additional information about the “Managing in Tough Times” initiative contact Lyla Houglum, Western Region Extension Executive Director, lyla.houglum@oregonstate.edu, or Jane Schuchardt, National Program Leader, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA, JSCHUCHARDT@csrees.usda.gov. A national task force is being formed to begin this work with the first planning meeting set for early May 2009.