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FCHS - Promoting Healthy Families, Schools, and Communities

Healthy Lifestyles

Advocacy

Training and Family Development

The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences

The Department of Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS), a community based nutrition, health promotion, and family wellness outreach component of Rutgers Cooperative Extension, provides workshops and on-line resources to educate and support families, worksites, schools, and communities to create healthier lifestyles.

Healthy Lifestyles

FCHS programming provides access and involvement in a variety of learning opportunities that promote consistent messages about the importance of healthy eating in concert with daily physical activity where consumers live, work and play.

Our programs are designed to be appropriate for worksite wellness, early childcare/ pre-school, youth, adults and older adults. Some programs available include:

• Functional Foods for Life
• Knowing your Family Health History
• Workplace Wellness

Contact FCHS at your local Rutgers Cooperative Extension county offices for additional topics.

Advocacy

FCHS is a leader in the communities in which it serves and works collaboratively with stakeholders to identify health needs, determine educational priorities, and implement culturally and community appropriate delivery methods.  FCHS is represented on numerous advisory boards and coalitions locally and statewide.

Training and Family Development

FCHS plays a fundamental role in preserving and promoting family development and well-being. We provide trainings and workshops that integrate concepts of human development, health literacy, community food systems, behavioral economics and health economics.

Featured Programs

• Get Moving - Get Healthy New Jersey- encourages a healthy lifestyle, especially healthy eating and physical activity, through educational programs, a website, publications and targeted marketing campaigns.
• Grow Healthy - a school-wide wellness program where school teachers, staff and administration; children; families; and volunteers all work together to make school a healthier place.
• Walk NJ Point to Point - a program designed to encourage youth and adults to virtually walk across New Jersey, from Cape May Point to High Point. The program can be initiated in the classroom, by a group of friends, or individually.

Statewide Events

• Children's Health Summits: Fighting Back Against Childhood Obesity

Resources

• Fact Sheets and Bulletins - Use our searchable database to find information on Food, Nutrition, and Health
• Visions Newsletter - Visions features articles on nutrition, physical activity, and health as part of the Get Moving-Get Healthy New Jersey initiative that is a partnership with the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services along with our 4-H colleagues.
• Helpful Links

Follow or Contact Us

FCHS has offices throughout the state of New Jersey. Find your county, or connect with us on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Take a look at what we've been up to!

Kathleen T. Morgan, Dr.M.H., DTR
Department Chair
Dept. of Family and Community Health Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
88 Lipman Dr.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525
Phone: 848-932-3661
Fax: 732-932-6633
Email: morgan@njaes.rutgers.edu