Penn State Cooperative Extension

Helps individuals, families, businesses, and communities throughout Pennsylvania
with information and a broad range of educational programs designed to:

• Support productive, profitable, and competitive businesses and a strong agriculture and food system
• Strengthen families, children and youth, and the elderly
• Build caring, safe, and healthy communities
• Ensure the long-term vitality of Pennsylvania's natural resources
• Enable people to better understand and deal with complex public issues

What is Cooperative Extension?

Penn State Cooperative Extension is an educational network that gives people in Pennsylvania's 67 counties access to Penn State's resources and expertise.

It is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state and county governments. Through this county-based partnership, Penn State extension agents, faculty, and local volunteers work together to share unbiased, research-based information with local residents. The extension network is one part of Penn State Outreach and Cooperative Extension, which also includes Continuing Education, Distance Education/World Campus, and Public Broadcasting.

Here are just a few of the many ways Cooperative Extension can help:

Individuals

	Managing time and stress
	Improving financial and consumer skills
	Enhancing employment opportunities
	Maintaining your home
	Improving nutrition, diet, and health
	Developing the potential of youth through 4-H
	Becoming a master gardener
	Improving the lives of the elderly

Families

	Managing family resources
	Making sound and economical nutrition and food choices
	Preparing and preserving food safely
	Improving your parenting skills
	Caring for children and seniors
	Balancing work and family
	Gardening and landscaping

Businesses

	Increasing agricultural profitability
	Evaluating community and regional resources
	Delivering quality child care
	Certifying food safety
	Troubleshooting production problems
	Starting home-based businesses
	Preparing tax forms properly
	Using technology appropriately
	Supporting the food and forest products industries

Communities

	Strengthening community leadership
	Revitalizing communities through economic development
	Expanding and retaining businesses
	Educating county and local officials
	Improving community relations
	Managing water, soil, and forest resources
	Promoting cooperation among agencies

 

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