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2004 NATIONAL

AND REGIONAL

AWARDS

NATIONAL EXTENSION ASSOCIATION

OF FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCES

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Congratulations to all of the 2004 NEAFCS awardsand fellowship winners! We gather together to cele-brate excellence! Our NEAFCS winners bring a pas-sion for excellence and for educating others in theircommunities. “The quality of a person’s life is indirect proportion to their commitment to excellence,regardless of their chosen field of endeavor,” accord-ing to the famous football coach Vincent Lombardi.

We should all strive for excellence in our Extension programs to make a difference.

Our national winners represent our brightest and best in Extension Family andConsumer Sciences around the country. We celebrate our 2004 NEAFCS nationalawards and fellowship winners for their hard work, enthusiasm and creativity.Extension Family and Consumer Sciences professionals are “In Tune with theTimes” on the critical issues facing our families, communities and nation.NEAFCS is honored to sing your praises here in Nashville, Music City.

Helen Keller once said, “When we do the best that we can, we never know whatmiracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” Our 2004 NEAFCS hon-orees have created miracles with their Extension education programming.

Congratulations and thank you for your contribution to our profession!

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Sharon Hoelscher Day2003-2004 NEAFCS National President

AWARD SPONSORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

AWARD CATEGORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

NATIONAL AWARDSFellowships

Grace Frysinger Fellowship . . . . . . 9

Professional Development AwardsDistinguished Service Award . . . . . 9Continued Excellence Award . . . . 16Extension Educator of the Year

Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Florence Hall Award . . . . . . . . . . . 22New Professional Award . . . . . . . . 23Para-Professional Award . . . . . . . . 23

Program AwardsDean Don Felker Financial

Management Award . . . . . . . . . . 24Mary W. Wells Diversity Award . . 24Program Excellence Through

Research Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Environmental Education Award . 25Extension Housing Outreach

Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Early Childhood Child Care Training

Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Food Safety Award . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Nutrition Media Grant . . . . . . . . . 26

Clean Homes...Healthy FamiliesAward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

4-H Excellence in AfterschoolProgramming Award . . . . . . . . . 27

Communications AwardsNewsletters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Written News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Overhead Transparencies . . . . . . . 30Educational Technology . . . . . . . . 30Educational Curriculum Package . 31Educational Publications . . . . . . . . 32

Public Relations AwardsMarketing Package Award . . . . . . . 33Community Partnership Award . . 33

REGIONAL AWARDSCentral Region Finalists . . . . . . . . . 34Eastern Region Finalists . . . . . . . . 41Southern Region Finalists . . . . . . . 49Western Region Finalists . . . . . . . . 59

2004 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONCOMMITTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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The Awards Program is administered through the Educational Awards Fund ofthe National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, a

501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation. NEAFCS contributes 20 percent of every mem-bers’ dues to the Awards Fund to support many of the awards given each year. Inaddition, NEAFCS relies on the generous contributions of organizations, localaffiliates and individuals for the continued success of the Awards Program.NEAFCS would like to thank the following organizations and individuals for thiersupport of specific awards (listed alphabetically by award sponsored):

Award Sponsors

CLEAN HOMES...HEALTHY FAMILIESAWARDSoap & Detergent Association

Nancy Bock1500 K Street, NW, Suite 300Washington, DC 20005

COMMUNICATIONS AWARDSAmerican Income Life InsuranceCompany

William ViarSpecial Risk DivisionP.O. Box 50158Indianapolis, IN 46250

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ANDCONTINUED EXCELLENCE AWARDPLAQUESA & T Industries

Wendell Garnhart1602 16th StreetBarron, WI 54812

EARLY CHILDHOOD CHILD CARETRAINING AWARDKeystone University ResearchCorporation

Joyce Iutcovich Ph.D.President3823 W. 12th StreetErie, PA 16505-3301

EXTENSION EDUCATOR OF THE YEARAWARD

Made possible by the generouscontributions of the followingNEAFCS members:Susan BrownMarilyn GoreKristine LongCarol S. MillerKaren Thomas

2004 NEAFCS AWARD SPONSORS

EXTENSION HOUSING OUTREACHAWARDMontana State University

Michael VogelFCS Program LeaderHousing & Environmental QualityBozeman, MT 59717

4-H EXCELLENCE IN AFTERSCHOOLPROGRAMMINGJCPenney Afterschool Fund

Edward W. SolczakExecutive Vice PresidentP.O. Box 10001Dallas, TX 75301-8101

MARY W. WELLS DIVERSITY AWARDNEAFCS State/Territory Affiliatesand Individual Contributions

NEW PROFESSIONAL AWARDNEAFCS Past National Presidents

Emily Remster, 2003-2004 Chair368 E. 400 S.Valparaiso, IN 46383-0352

FELLOWSHIPSGreenwood FellowshipGranted to an Extension Educator inFamily and Consumer Sciences forgraduate studies, this award is spon-sored by NEAFCS to give members anopportunity to pursue professionalimprovement through graduate study inthe area of their own choosing.

Grace Frysinger FellowshipThe Grace Frysinger Fellowship wasestablished to provide an opportunityfor an Extension Educator in Familyand Consumer Sciences to study andobserve family and consumer scienceseducation in other states or countries.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARDSDistinguished Service AwardThe Distinguished Service Award is thehighest award presented by theNEAFCS. The award recognizes mem-bers for leadership, educational pro-gram efforts and professional develop-ment.

Continued Excellence AwardThe award recognizes NEAFCS mem-bers who have previously received theDistinguished Service Award and con-tinue to be actively involved in profes-sional improvement programs, the pro-

motion of professional development ofothers, and leadership.

Extension Educator of the YearThis award is to recognize a profes-sional Extension Family and ConsumerSciences Educator who is conductingoutstanding educational programs thatdemonstrate impact on families.

Florence Hall AwardThe Florence Hall Award is presentedfor an outstanding program conductedby one or more NEAFCS memberswho have been alert in recognizing newconcerns and interests of families andhave involved people in planning andimplementing programs that benefitfamilies.

New Professional AwardThis award is presented to an outstand-ing new professional, but must be usedto help defray the cost of attending therecipient's first NEAFCS Annual Ses-sion.

Para-Professional AwardThis award is in recognition of out-standing service to special audiencesthrough the use of para-professionalsworking with or supervised by Exten-sion Family and Consumer SciencesEducators.

Award Categories

PROGRAM AWARDSDean Don Felker FinancialManagement AwardThis award recognized the develop-ment of financial management pro-grams which help individuals and fami-lies make decisions and plans for theirpresent and future needs.

Mary W. Wells Memorial DiversityAwardThis award recognizes outstandingefforts and accomplishments of indi-viduals and/or teams in diversity andpluralism for any Extension Family andConsumer Sciences program or activity,including staff development, advisorycouncils, programs, etc.

Nutrition Media GrantAwarded to individuals desiring todevelop media materials emphasizingnutrition.

Program Excellence ThroughResearch AwardThis award emphasizes the use ofresearch results to improve existingprograms or to develop new programs.

Environmental Education AwardThis award recognizes NEAFCS mem-bers for outstanding educational pro-grams conducted for families and/orcommunities on various environmentalissues/concerns.

Extension Housing OutreachAwardRecognizes NEAFCS members foroutstanding housing educational pro-

grams conducted for families and/orcommunities.

Early Childhood Child CareTraining AwardThis award recognizes outstandingchildcare professional training thataddresses the needs of young children,birth to eight years of age.

Food Safety AwardIn recognition of NEAFCS membersfor outstanding educational programsconducted for families, school nutritionworkers, food industry employees ormanagers, church workers preparingmeals, home care providers, and othergroups/individuals preparing and/orserving food.

Clean Homes…Healthy FamiliesProgram AwardRecognizes NEAFCS members fortheir innovative educational programsthat help families and individualsunderstand the link between cleanhomes and good health.

4-H Excellence in AfterschoolProgramming AwardThis award recognizes excellence indevelopment and implementation ofafter-school programming or providingenrichment to ongoing programsthrough curriculum and/or training forstaff.

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COMMUNICATIONS AWARDSEstablished in 1972 to encourage excel-lence in communications. Awards aregiven for the following categories:Newsletters, Radio, Television, WrittenNews, Overhead Transparancies, Edu-cational Technology, Educational Cur-riculum Package, and Educational Pub-lications.

PUBLIC RELATIONS AWARDSMarketing Package AwardRecognizes NEAFCS members foroutstanding marketing efforts address-ing concerns and needs of children,families or communities.

Community Partnership AwardRecognizes NEAFCS members foroutstanding community partnershipefforts in meeting the needs of familiesthrough collaboration with group,agencies and consumers.

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FELLOWSHIPSGrace Frysinger FellowshipJan F. Scholl (Pennsylvania)During this fellowship, Jan Scholl willconduct research to create a video doc-umentary of Extension FCS historyand a book about Martha Van Rennse-lear, Extension FCS pioneer. Fourweeks travel is planned to Archives II,near College Park, Maryland and to theCornell University Archives in Ithaca,New York.

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

AWARDSDistinguished Service AwardCENTRAL REGION

Sandra Rae Aamlid (South Dakota)Located in the largest city in SouthDakota, Sandra serves as a nutritioninterventionist for the All WomenCount program; supervisor for EFNEPNutrition Assistants, and nutrition/food safety teacher for recertificationhours for child care providers. Her edu-cational outreach in Sun Safety

launched statewide participation. Grantdollars expand her programs.

Lana Anderson (Wisconsin)Lana Anderson believes in collabora-tion with multiple civic organizationsand agencies to address needs of par-ents and children in the area of parent-ing, financial management and nutri-tion. She uses targeted newsletters andPositive Parenting classes to reach 675parents. She also supervises paraprofes-sionals in the Wisconsin NutritionEducation Program.

Gail Louise Brand (Nebraska)The development of Seward CountyBridges, a coalition that utilizes taskforces for the benefit of youth andfamilies. Bridges has coordinated over30 community projects that earned$550,000 in grants. One example is thedevelopment of the diversion programto keep first-time offenders from enter-ing the court system.

Carol Ann Burtness (Minnesota)Carol Ann’s programming reflects herstrength at recognizing program needsand identifying issues. As an educatorwho meets participants at their learninglevels, she provides programming thatis practical for the learner. She createsan environment that is conducive to

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learning with a variety of teachingmethods and activities.

Peggy Ann Ehlers (Indiana)This Extension Educator from Indianahas been active with the State Associa-tion and serving on national commit-tees, such as Professional Developmentand Public Affairs.

Mary Lou Elbert (Indiana)Mary Lou Elbert is a Purdue ExtensionEducator in Warrick County, Indiana inConsumer & Family Sciences. MaryLou has served Purdue Extension fortwenty two years. Her accomplishmentsinclude an IEEA 2003 County StaffAward; an IEEA 1999 Senior Award;and an IEEA Team Award.

Rosemary A. Gibbons (Illinois)Rosie Gibbons, Unit Leader of Effing-ham County, University of IllinoisExtension, provides leadership to helppeople of all ages and cultures todevelop life skills, to solve problems, toimprove quality of family life, toimprove nutrition and wellness, toenrich youth development, and toimprove agricultural and naturalresources.

Linnette Mizer Goard (Ohio)Linnette has served the clientele ofOhio State University Extension for 18years. She has a specialization in nutri-tion education and serves as co-leaderof their state nutrition issues team. Her

current programming includes workingwith day care providers and school-ageprograms in tackling the issue of child-hood obesity.

Lynda Sue Johnson (Missouri)Lynda is committed to helping peopledevelop healthy lifestyles. She led theway in MO promoting strength trainingto improve health for women. Throughhigh quality programs like A New You:Health for Every Body and Focusingon Women’s Health Forums, Lynda hasempowered 725 citizens to improvetheir health.

Mary F. Longo (Ohio)Mary F. Longo has been a Family andConsumer Sciences Agent for 12 years.Her focus areas are work and familyissues, child care and nutrition. She hasdeveloped numerous curricula, factsheets and projects to support her pro-gramming as well as to share with hercolleagues nationwide.

Linda L. Smith (Illinois)Linda Smith, Extension Unit Leader,served Christian County residents as a4-H Advisor for 12 years, then as theHome Economist for six years, and asthe unit leader since 1992. Linda alwaysstrives to meet the programming needsof residents whether in family life,youth development or agriculture.

H. Rita Straub (Wisconsin)Increasing financial literacy has beenidentified as a community need forFamily Living Education Programs inMarathon County, Wisconsin. Through

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partnerships and alliances with financialinstitutions, agencies, and organizationsthe Get Checking, Money Smart andFinancial Security in Later Years pro-grams are now offered to a broad rangeof participants.

Dianne Marie Swanson (Nebraska)As coordinator and member of theteaching team of the county JuvenileDiversion program, Dianne Swansonhas taught more than 300 students andtheir parents over the last five yearshow to make better choices. She wasalso instrumental in securing the fundsto establish a Community ServiceCoordinator position.

Sharon R. Wasteney (Iowa)Sharon Wasteney uses her leadershipabilities to promote family issuesthrough multiple county and state net-works. She has authored or co-authored grants totaling over $5 millionfor Union County Extension in the last10 years. Sharon is recognized for hercreative approaches to provide mean-ingful programs for families and youth.

EASTERN REGION

Constance Mauro Barnett(Maryland)During 26 years with Extension I havechanged from focusing on Homemak-ers and sewing and home decoratingclasses. I now serve limited-resourcefamilies and child care providers.Grants support my nutrition, financeand parenting programs. During 25

years with NEAFCS I have served asstate secretary and public relationschair.

Cathy Faulcon Bowen(Pennsylvania)Cathy Faulcon Bowen provides Penn-sylvania Extension educators withinformation and programs related toconsumer and financial issues. Creditcard education, basic money manage-ment, and consumer skills needed byadults are three areas of her work.Bowen is an associate professor andspecialist in the Department of Agri-cultural and Extension Education.

Elaine Patricia Bowen (WestVirginia)Elaine Bowen has twenty five years ofexperience as an extension educator atcounty and state levels. Elaine is dedi-cated to promoting healthy lifestyles aswell as effective organizational systemsto achieve this. She is currently Exten-sion Specialist - Health Promotion withthe West Virginia University ExtensionService (WVUES).

Frederick W. Davis (Pennsylvania)For seven years, Fred has provided awide range of resource managementprograms in seven counties of South-east Pennsylvania. In 1994, he was thefirst Extension Educator nationally toreceive the Accredited Financial Coun-selor designation. Since 1998, he has

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served as Regional Director of thenine-county Southeast Region.

Kathleen Shimomura (New Jersey)Ten years of Extension has taken meto more places, introduced me to greatpeople and given me more experiencesand opportunities than I could imagine.My role in extension is as a public ser-vant in providing science-based educa-tion to improve the lives of others. Apleasure indeed!

SOUTHERN REGION

Faith Belmar Ballard (Texas)Provided leadership, support and train-ing for 20 counties in District 8. Servedas interim this past year for 18 countiesin District 9, supervising the Familyand Consumer Sciences program.

Nita Faye Cooper (Arkansas)Nita has worked to establish a BooneCounty Youth Leadership Program inconjunction with the local Chamber ofCommerce. Over 175 high school jun-iors have participated in the program.The Food Stamp Nutrition EducationProgram was utilized to reach families.Nutrition programs were also conduct-ed at local Senior Centers.

Alma Mancillas Fonseca (Texas)Alma Fonseca reaches out to familieswith education for building successfullife skills, promoting healthy and safelifestyles, increasing self-sufficiency, and

strengthening volunteers. Her countyprograms in child passenger safety,home buyer education, and diabeteseducation for persons with type 2 dia-betes have brought statewide recogni-tion to Extension.

Shenile Ford (North Carolina)Shenile R. Ford focused her program-ming efforts primarily on the elderlyand child care providers. Her ability tocollaborate and cooperate with diverseaudiences and agencies is reflected inher efforts to educate senior citizensand child care providers to improvetheir lives and others through research-based information training.

Elizabeth Voliva Furlough (NorthCarolina)Elizabeth (Dee) Furlough was borninto an Extension family and began herprofessional career with NC Coopera-tive Extension in 1991. Throughout heryears as a Family and Consumer Sci-ences Agent, she has providedresearch-based information to manyaudiences. Special emphasis has beenplaced on educating Spanish immi-grants.

Betty Gottler (Alabama)With more than 29 years in MorganCounty, Alabama, Betty Gottler workswith 2500+ youth in traditional 4-Hwork. Grants totaling $40,000 trainededucators to deliver character educationin the third grade and 6/7 scienceclassrooms to more than 1200 studentsover four years.

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Jamie Melinda Harris (Tennessee)Jamie Harris has served fifteen years as4-H Agent in Warren County. She hasprovided leadership to 4-H members inthe areas of service learning, careerdevelopment and decision makingthrough judging team participation.Her fundraising skills and interactionwith volunteer leaders have been anasset to the 4-H program.

Jill B. Harris (Kentucky)By utilizing volunteers and communityresources, Jill Harris began a summerfeeding program for children in ToddCounty when unemployment reached ahigh level. The program has continuedfor three years and has provided over11,000 nutritious meals to youth.Financially, it has contributed morethan $33,000 to the community.

Mary E. Hixson (Kentucky)Mary Hixson has served 20 years as anAgent in rural Kentucky. Get GoingGarrard is a walking program set up toinspire and encourage movement. Dia-betes support programs, newslettersand health fairs give participants anopportunity to learn about healthissues, make wise nutrition choices andlive healthier lives.

Cathy J. Holmes (Louisiana)Served for 26 years, worked to establisha group of over 60 Family serviceagencies which meets quarterly; collab-orates to implement projects including:Health Fairs, Trade Shows, Safe KidsWeek outreaches (bike helmets, child

passenger safety), parent centers in 3schools, literacy programs, Anger Man-agement & co-parenting. Secured 3grants ($9,800) for program enhance-ment.

Mary Lucile Jordan (Alabama)Mary Lucile is a County Coordinatorand has worked with extension for 26years. She writes a weekly newspapercolumn on food and nutrition that issyndicated to 17 newspapers owned bythe New York Times. She supervisesvolunteer leaders and agent assistantsworking with 4-H Clubs and SchoolEnrichment.

Margaret A. Jover (Texas)Moving from welfare to work hasresulted in major challenges for manyfamilies. This program was designed toassist families in balancing family andwork life. Participants indicated theyincreased skills in finding a job, manag-ing finances, feeding the family nutri-tiously, and communicating more effec-tively.

Christine Kastan (Virginia)Last year over 2,400 people participatedin programming, primarily in food sani-tation and nutrition education. Chris-tine Kastan works collaboratively withagencies, colleagues, and a variety ofaudience groups to teach through themedia, newsletters, informational anddevelopmental programs. She trainsparaprofessionals and utilizes volun-

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teers while sharing resources aroundthe state.

Mary Sue Kennington (Florida)Mary Sue Kennington began her 26year Extension career in Aspen, CO.After 18 years, she transferred to Flori-da. Her responsibilities have includedFCS, 4-H, fairs, horticulture, supervis-ing a canning center, and 22 years asCounty Extension Director. She cur-rently serves as one of the FCS teammembers in Orlando.

Jackie W. King (Tennessee)Working with the Expanded Food &Nutrition Education Program in twocounties, Jackie supervises 10 programassistants who work with low-incomefamilies and high risk-youth. She pro-vides training that focuses on theimportance of choosing healthy foodson a limited budget.

Carmen Joy Long (North Carolina)Carmen is working to reduce the inci-dence of childhood obesity inAlleghany County. Educatingpreschoolers, their parents and teachersof the importance of good nutritionand physical activity through hands onprograms, workshops and newsletters,she is helping families to develop goodhabits and healthy life styles.

Hilda Williams Lytle (Tennessee)Hilda Lytle (Warren County, TN) pro-vides leadership for FCS programs with

an emphasis in health and nutritioneducation. This year’s Lunch Bunchpresentations included Heartcare,Choose to Move, and Healthy Habitsfor Life. These three multi-session pro-grams focused on choosing a healthylifestyle through proper diet and exer-cise.

Patricia B. Margolis (Kentucky)Hart County, Kentucky, citizens facemany health issues. Physical activity,nutrition, and food safety are Familyand Consumer Sciences programemphasis. The FCS agent has organizedHealthy Hart a local coalition of com-munity leaders and health professionalsto address health issues. Physical activi-ty and awareness has been increased.

Ginny Kay McCarthick (Oklahoma)Ginny McCarthick is a 14-year memberof this organization. She is a graduateof Oklahoma State University and isemployed as an Extension Educator,FCS and CED in Tishomingo Okla-homa.

Susan Lynn Moffat (Oklahoma)It is important to be a respected pro-fessional educator and mentor, bybeing a source of quality, timely infor-mation, and by consistently presentingquality programming. Employed for 15years, 10 years of which have been in alarge metropolitan county, there are stillmany untapped opportunities ofOCES.

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Patsilu Sheely Reeves (Mississippi)The agent has been active in providingquality child care educational opportu-nities for the clients in her district at asaving of over $35,000 to child careproviders. She has collaborated withother area agents to create the HousingAuthority Resident Life Skills Work-shop and Foster Parents Workshops.

Marian Denise Ross (Texas)Marian Ross, Family and ConsumerSciences Agent -Tarrant County pro-vides programs to build skills in finan-cial literacy and family life issues. Hermain goals in teaching individual’s are:importance of saving money, reducingdebt, managing money, positive disci-pline, building family communication,empowering teen parents and respond-ing to emerging issues.

Dolores M. Sandmann (Texas)Dolores Sandmann has been an effec-tive educator for over 20 years withTexas Cooperative Extension. Sheserves as the Nutrition/Health educa-tor and coordinates the Better Livingfor Texans Food Stamp Nutrition Pro-gram which has reached over 16,400limited resource clientele since 2001with basic nutrition, budgeting andfood safety information.

Diane D. Sasser (Louisiana)A member of NEAFCS for 22 years,brought in over $2,000,000 to LSUAgCenter recently in grants supportingefforts of faculty. Authored severaleducational materials on parenting.

PATHWAYS for Parents, curriculumfor parents of adolescents, was a suc-cessful collaborative work with a teamof faculty to produce a multi-mediacurriculum.

Romona Duncan Thieme(Arkansas)Programs conducted by RomonaThieme are: health/nutrition reachingover 800 individuals countywide withemphasis on women’s health—osteo-porosis and breast cancer. Through anFSNEP grant, 70 classes were taughton food/nutrition in elementaryschools. Over 119 high school juniorshave participated in a leadership pro-gram for five years.

WESTERN REGION

Marilyn King Albertson (Utah)As an FCS/4-H Youth Agent for 20years, Marilyn’s emphasis has been onyouth workforce preparation, financialmanagement and housing education foradults and youth. She provides first-time homebuyer, finance and creditmanagement education classes andserves on a Statewide Bankruptcy IssueTeam. Numerous grants have assistedher in programming.

Tara M. Andrews (Montana)Tara Andrews is an Extension Agent inCuster County, Montana. Her appoint-ment includes FCS and 4-H responsi-bilities. Program strengths include

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health and wellness, nutrition, humandevelopment and financial manage-ment. Programming highlights for theyear include many pedometer pro-grams, Quick 2 Fix newsletter andfinancial calculator programs.

Mary Ellen Fleming (Colorado)The San Luis Valley has a high Latinopopulation (40%), which includesmigrant workers, year-round Mexicannationals, legal and illegal, a high dia-betes rate, and a depressed economy.Mary Ellen tailors her programming innutrition, health, food safety, budget-ing, and parenting to meet the needs ofthis diverse audience.

Marciel Anne Klenk (California)Marciel Klenk has served in Extensionfor 36 years. She is recognized for herresearch and educational programs forHispanic Diabetes Awareness, FoodSafety and Sanitation for Food Han-dlers and her leadership in developingthe Make It Safe, Serve It Safe foodsafety curriculum taught throughoutCalifornia.

Audrey C. Liddil (Idaho)Audrey Liddil has served for 15 yearsas an EFNEP Extension Educator,with seven years as the State EFNEPCoordinator. Audrey’s educationalactivities have helped families withhealth and nutrition issues. The lastfour years she has been a collaborator

with the grant funded Wellness In(WIN) the Rockies program.

Lynn Chiemi Nakamura-Tengan(Hawaii)Lynn Nakamura-Tengan, extensioneducator for 15 years, continues todevelop timely and innovative pro-grams in financial management, nutri-tion and food safety. Through commu-nity collaborations, she offered technol-ogy-based financial management pro-grams and implemented various foodsafety education programs for localorganizations, schools and entrepre-neurs.

Continued Excellence AwardCENTRAL REGION

Shirley E. Camp (Illinois)Working with the Nutrition and Well-ness Team, Shirley’s goal is to reachclientele with cutting edge educationalprograms. Preparing written materials,mentoring staff and students, and usingelectronic technology to teach clienteleare just a few of the ways she has usedher expertise to help others learn.

Lois Ann Clark (Ohio)During Lois’ 29 years as an ExtensionAgent, she has demonstrated her beliefin the value of education for self-improvement and helping others helpthemselves. She participates in profes-sional development opportunities andclasses. Presentations on stepfamilyeducation and the development of life

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skills have been shared with other pro-fessionals.

Christine M. Kniep (Wisconsin)Christine Kniep, Winnebago CountyFamily Living Educator and Depart-ment Head, is committed to improvingthe lives of families through teachingand leadership. She actively participatesin professional development offeringsfocused on strengthening families andcapacity building. Giving back to theprofession and mentoring others areimportant goals for Chris.

Karen Elaine Petrik (South Dakota)Programming efforts in the area ofchild care, parenting, nutrition, andfood safety are provided for the south-ern SD families. Professional opportu-nities are used to ensure currentresearch based information for clien-tele. She has been an active member ofher state association by serving as anofficer and on committees.

Sarah Effken Purcell (Nebraska)Over a 19-year Extension career, Sarahhas been actively involved with profes-sional development and leadership atthe local, state and national levels. Thedepth and breadth of her involvementwith NEAFCS has enhanced her pro-gram development in the areas of foodsafety, early childhood and youth pro-gramming.

Brenda J. Reau (Michigan)In response to a need identified by theMichigan Food Safety Task Force,Brenda developed the BAC Fighters

Food Safety for Preschoolers curricu-lum and provided training to Extensionstaff across Michigan. The curriculum,now in its second printing, has reachedover 6,000 young children with foodsafety education.

Carol Ann Crouch Schlitt (Illinois)Carol is a dynamic nutrition educatorthat is known for creative, innovativeand award winning nutrition and foodsafety programming efforts. She took a6-month sabbatical in 2003 to developa 5-hour Food Safety CertificationHACCP Program and has reached over300 food handlers with this in-depthHACCP certification program.

Cheryl Tickner (Nebraska)Cheryl has demonstrated significantleadership skills and professionalgrowth in the area of food safety edu-cation. She helped develop five differ-ent programs, making the curriculamaterials available to co-workers acrossthe state. She has also shared the foodsafety resources with participants at anumber of national meetings.

Minnell Lu Tralle (Minnesota)Minnell Tralle is a 28 year Extensionprofessional who believes that learningand discovery are keys to being aneffective educator and participates inlocal and national professional develop-ment activities. She has trained morethan 600 professionals in the ParentsForever curriculum and continues to

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provide education to family profession-als.

Rita Ussatis (North Dakota)Rita Ussatis has served as an ExtensionAgent for 16 years for NDSU Exten-sion Service. Her main programming isin the nutrition, food safety and healtharea. Recent programming has includedschool-aged nutrition, leadership devel-opment and healthy home environ-ment. She served as the state affiliatepresident from 2002-2004.

Margaret E. VanGinkel (Iowa)Professional growth has been a contin-uous goal for Margaret as she workswith communities, agencies, and indi-viduals to provide programs and con-nect people to needed resourcesthrough the hotlines she manages. Shehas a strong commitment to keep her-self professionally updated, and alsoprovide leadership and professionaldevelopment to others.

Marjorie Eileen Wolford (Ohio)Marge Wolford is committed to profes-sional development of herself and oth-ers on current issues affecting familiesand communities. She shares her skillsespecially in the areas of jobs and fami-lies, resource management, family life,health and nutrition in Ohio andnationwide. She actively participates inseveral professional associations.

Joan B. Younce (Indiana)Joan has enjoyed 14 Annual Sessions inher fifteen years of Extension work.Her programming helps her communi-ty in the areas of Food Safety Certifica-tion programs, leadership developmentand nutrition education. Professionaldevelopment opportunities are impor-tant to her in maintaining up-to-dateinformation for her clientele.

EASTERN REGION

Lynn F. Little (Maryland)As an FCS Extension Educator therehave been many opportunities andmuch encouragement to participate inprofessional development. Thoseopportunities and encouragement haveallowed me to grow and develop as aprofessional with subject matter andskills to meet the mission of MCE –educating people to help themselves.

Janet L. McDougall (Pennsylvania)As an extension professional for 27years, Janet values professional devel-opment opportunities for her careergrowth and the benefit to extensionclientele. As County Extension Direc-tor, a mentor to family living educators,and a member of the regional familyliving team, Janet supports and encour-ages the professional development ofothers.

Linda J. Waybright (West Virginia)Linda feels professional development isa life-long process and is vital to beingan effective Extension Professional.

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Programming efforts focus on limited-resource families through FNP and themulti-state project, Rural FamiliesSpeak. Nutrition and health needs ofrural clientele are addressed in Diningwith Diabetes classes and supportgroups.

SOUTHERN REGION

Cheryl Case (Kentucky)Cheryl believes in continuing toimprove professionally. She has attend-ed seventeen state meetings and sixteennational meetings. Mentoring newagents is a priority. One of her success-es has been developing capable, com-petent leaders. As a presenter and par-ticipant in professional developmentopportunities she continues dedicationto life-long learning.

Rita Johnson Casey (Tennessee)Rita Casey has a thirty-one year Exten-sion career in McNairy County, TN.Her Extension career has been focusedon presenting researched-based educa-tional programs to the clientele ofMcNairy County that would enhancetheir lives and develop leadership skills.Making a difference, and sharing expe-riences with others.

Jo Ann Cope (North Carolina)A 22-year veteran of Extension workin both North Carolina and Florida, JoAnn serves her clientele and NEAFCSin a variety of positions. Currentlyserving her 2nd term as a District Pres-ident and Secretary of the N.C. Associ-

ation, she served 3 terms on theNational Public Affairs Committee.

Patricia Sanders Draper(Mississippi)Patty, a 26-year Extension employee,has served as 4-H agent, home econo-mist and county director. Twenty-oneyears of NAEFCS membershipincludes state committee involvement.Developing newsletter series for teensand food safety, monthly teachers’nutrition newsletters and programmingfor diverse audiences highlight accom-plishments in her program focus innutrition/food safety.

Katherine A. Farrow (Texas)During her 23-year career with theTexas Cooperative Extension, Kather-ine has developed and implementednumerous programs in nutrition, foodpreparation, parenting, diabetes andhealth. She has developed additionalskills in creative programming, net-working and collaborating to meet theneeds of culturally and economicallydiverse audiences in her county.

Sandra Kay Fry (Texas)Sandra Fry has contributed to improv-ing the well-being of Brazoria Countyresidents through diabetes educationwith an emphasis in teaching peoplehow to cook healthy meals to controlblood sugar. Networking with a localmedical facility has impacted the pro-

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gram with positive results in meal plan-ning for diabetics.

Sherry G. Harder (Texas)Sherry Harder has provided qualityprograms to Oldham County citizensfor eighteen years. Traditional programsand emerging issues have focused onhealth and wellness, economic develop-ment, leadership and youth develop-ment. She is committed to strengthen-ing the Extension profession throughparticipation in professional organiza-tions at the state and local levels.

Nancy Davenport Hunt (Kentucky)Nancy Hunt’s 25 years in Extensionwork has included professional devel-opment opportunities to enhance herpersonal skills in working with clientele.She set an example when she obtainedher Master’s degree after an absence of19 years from college.

Judith C. Kovach (Tennessee)An Extension Educator for 30 years,has worked with Expanded Food andNutrition Program, 4-H Youth Devel-opment and Family and Consumer Sci-ence programs for adult audiences.Current educational programs inRobertson County include Parentingand Nutrition Education as well asbeing an advisor to the county FCEclubs.

Martha Blake May (Arkansas)Helping youth to achieve leadershipskill has been the focus of the Familyand Consumer Science program. Over$300,000.00 in grant funds have beensecured to implement an After SchoolProgram, Junior Leadership Academyand Camping Retreat. 2,370 youth havebeen involved. Forty four adults havevolunteered with the program.

Liz McKay (Arkansas)Liz has 18 years of service with theArkansas Cooperative Extension Ser-vice, 8 years with Louisiana’s ExtensionService and 18 years with NEAFCS.She provides research-based informa-tion to the citizens of Union Countyand training for Serv/Safe, Best Care,EHC and 4-H. Professional develop-ment includes in-service andstate/national conferences.

Katherine Anne Ordeneaux(Louisiana)Has been a member for 34 years. Firstin LA to complete 15 post graduatehours for specialization in FamilyDevelopment. Has provided Child CareProviders classes in 3 parishes for 5years, parenting classes for 7 years,EFNEP Coordinator. Served as statetreasurer; chaired many committees inLEAFCS.

Karen Lynn Poff (Virginia)Karen Poff endeavors to provide highquality educational experiences to clien-tele, while sharing her expertise withco-workers to enhance Extension edu-

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cation throughout Virginia. Because ofher leadership and programming excel-lence, colleagues frequently contact herfor support and mentoring. Dedicatedto the Extension mission, she promotesteamwork, rather than individualachievement.

Mary Beth Salisbury (Florida)Mary Beth joined FEAFCS in 1981,serving as President in 1996. She wasthe first County Faculty elected toserve as the Chair of the University ofFlorida’s prestigious Faculty AdvisoryCommittee. She continues to serve as amentor to interns and new Extensionprofessionals as they begin their FCScareers.

Patricia Barnard Staggs (Louisiana)Establishment of the Jackson Leader-ship Academy and the high percentageof graduating volunteers who success-fully develop, initiate, and maintaincommunity projects are the highlight ofthis agent’s 31 year career. Her gradu-ates serve at state, parish and local lev-els addressing issues in government,education, economic development andenvironmental preservation.

Mary Virginia Strickland (Texas)Provided leadership, support and train-ing for 22 counties in District 4 forFamily and Consumer Sciences. Theoutstanding outcome results and pro-gram efforts reflect the work the FCSfaculty implemented with her leader-ship of the program.

Deborah Jean Thomason (SouthCarolina)Building Strong Families has been theprogram focus for Dr. Thomason’s 21year career. As a state specialist since1994, she has provided leadership forthe Building Family Strengths programwhich has been recognized nationallyand is currently offered in 20 states.

Joann Smith Wissinger (Alabama)Throughout her twenty-six year career,Joann has participated in professionaldevelopment to improve subject matterand management skills. She believesthat, to meet the needs of clienteletoday, she must be involved in profes-sional development. Joann has servedin leadership roles at the district andstate level.

Glenna Sue Wooten (Kentucky)As we live in an ever-changing world,many new innovative programs mustbe implemented to meet the needs ofthe clientele. Programs that haveimpacted thousands of individuals (andgenerated thousands of dollars) are thesewing programs, youth programs, andthe development of the arts council.

WESTERN REGION

Pamela Kutara (Hawaii)Building capacity through continuedprofessional development has alwaysbeen part of Pamela’s career withExtension. She enthusiastically pursues

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opportunities to enhance her efforts inFamily Resource Management projectsand translates the acquired knowledgeand skills into improved products.Pamela has incorporated innovativemethodology to reach Hawaii’s resi-dents throughout the state.

Christine Anne Pasley (Wyoming)Christine Pasley’s been a NEAFCSmember and Extension Educator for15 years. Her Family and ConsumerSciences career started in northwestWyoming and continued in the south-east. She was first chair of theWyoming Extension Nutrition andFood Safety Initiative. Chris has heldseveral offices in the NEAFCSWyoming affiliate.

Extension Educator of the YearAwardDebbie W. Purvis (Georgia)Throughout her career with the Geor-gia Extension Service, Debbie Purvishas developed a variety of innovativeprograms in the areas of nutrition andfood safety, as well as secured grantfunding through community collabora-tions in reaching Georgia’s growingLatino population in rural ColquittCounty.

Florence Hall AwardPatricia Faughn, Amy Griswold,Angela Wiley, Debbie McClellen,Gisela Grumbach, RachelSchwarzendruber, Sherry Rocha(Illinois)Intentional Harmony: Managing Workand Parenting is a research-based cur-riculum unit that is part of a larger cur-riculum. It is for use with employedparents, supervisors, and humanresource personnel. It encouragesemployed parents to find ways to effec-tively manage and be satisfied in boththeir parenting and work.

Dianne Margaret Miiller (Maryland)With the alarming growth of diabetesin our Latino-Hispanic community,there is a need to provide informationto uninsured patients at high risk formany medical problems. Clases paraDiabeticos Latinos was developed toprovide diabetes information, hands onnutrition activities, and cooking classesto patients and their family members.

Barbara M. O’Neill, Maria Young,Pat Brennan (New Jersey)Predatory Lending Practices and CreditRip-Offs is a 10-module curriculum forNew Jersey High School teachers. Over450 teachers received the curriculumand over 800 consumers were taughtwith the stand-alone identity theftmodule. Two external grants totaling$51,000 supported development of thecurriculum and six subsequent teachertraining workshops.

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Nancy B. Stevens (Pennsylvania)Low-income children entering Kinder-garten often demonstrate a lack ofdevelopmental skills commonly identi-fied with school readiness. This projectis a multi-faceted approach to betterprepare the parents, the child careproviders, and ultimately the childrenfor their first formal educational expe-rience.

Linda Wells, Brenda Bishop,Carolynn Wilson, Charolette Collins,Cheryl Maxwell, Connie Moyers,Dr. Ann Vail, Dr. Martha Archuleta,Gayla Weaver, Glenda Belcher,Imelda Garcia, Jennifer Hopper,Karen Halderson, Kari Bachman,Kathryn Ritterbusch, Lynne Beam,Margaret Dines, Marsha Palmer,Mindy Denny, Owida Franz,Patricia Aaron, Raylene McCalman,Roberta Rios, Robin Baker, SandyCassen, Shannon Wooton, ShellyPorter, Starley Anderson, VirginiaAlexander (New Mexico)In New Mexico, an estimated 120,555people have diabetes. Our teambelieves education is the key to helpingprevent or control diabetes with regularphysical activity and a balanced nutri-tious diet. The Kitchen Creations cur-riculum was developed to meet theneeds of individuals and families withdiabetes in New Mexico.

New Professional AwardDenise Hanner Continenza(Pennsylvania)The applicant for this award has forgedmany collaborations within her com-munity during the past 2 and 1/2 years.She has also developed and successfullyimplemented programs that meet theneeds of the people in her communityby utilizing extension resources as wellas by consulting with advisory boardmembers.

Para-Professional AwardTheresa Serio (Maryland)Terry Serio has worked as ExtensionEducator in Maryland for two years.She has reached over 2,500 low incomeand special students with programsencouraging economical food prepara-tion, proper food storage and safety.She has developed programs withthemes, special events, and experientialactivities to ensure memorable anddynamic learning.

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PROGRAM

AWARDSDean Don Felker FinancialManagement AwardKathleen Marie Metzenbauer(Wisconsin)“Family Finances Workshops For Housing”In response to the news of plant clos-ings, job layoffs and budget deficits inJuneau County, Wisconsin, a subcom-mittee of the Juneau County EconomicDevelopment Corporation HousingCommittee organized three FamilyFinances Workshops to promote finan-cial proficiency to families.

Evelyn Prasse, Charlotte Crawford,Debbie Bartman, Dr. PaulMcNamara, Ellen Burton, JenniferHunt, Karen Chan, Kathy Reuter,Kathy Sweedler, Linda CrawlJackson, Lois Smith, Mary AnnFugate, Pat Hildebrand, SusanTaylor (Illinois)“Your Money & Your Life”The Consumer & Family Economicsteam collaborated with the FinancialLinks for Low-Income People Coali-tion to develop the train-the-trainercurriculum, Your Money & Your Life.Extension Educators teach agency per-sonnel to reteach the curriculum thatincludes insurance, banking, predatorylending, debt management, investing,job and public benefits, and tax issues.

Mary W. Wells Diversity AwardLisa A. Guion (Florida), CarolynPerkins, MPH (Texas), Dr. H.Wallace Goddard (Arkansas), GaeBroadwater (Kentucky), SamanthaChattaraj, Stephanie Sullivan-Lytle(Florida)“Strengthening Programs To Reach DiverseAudiences Project”There is a growing body of researchthat presents strategies for planning,marketing and implementing programsthat will be more effective with ethni-cally diverse audiences. Drawing uponthis literature, the project team devel-oped and implemented a six-unit cur-riculum, and many other resources, tobuild cultural competence amongExtension educators.

Program Excellence ThroughResearch AwardMary L. Blackburn, Amy B. Joy,Anna C. Martin, Barbara Turner,Estella A. West, Lucia L. Kaiser,Marilyn S. Townsend (California)“Evaluating EFNEP and FSNEPPrograms with a Food Behavior Checklist”This research designed and validated aFood Behavior Checklist (FBC) as analternate to the 24-hour food recall toevaluate nutrition education impactamong families in the FSNEP andEFNEP programs. The FBC was easyto administer, code, analyze, was validand reliable, culturally neutral, user-friendly, and less time consuming.

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Laura F. Stephenson, Denise Lewis,Elizabeth Hunter, Jennifer Gatz,Kim Stansbury (Kentucky)“A Community-Based Solution to Elders’Health Disparities”Many of America’s communities aregraying as baby boomers age. The abili-ty of a community to meet the needsof elders is complex. This studyassessed a community’s elder service/support infrastructure through surveys,in-depth interviews and communityassessment to develop a broad-basedlocal initiative to promote successfulaging.

Environmental Education AwardJudy Bland, Dr. Jorge Atiles, RachelWest, Terri Cameron (Georgia)“The A+ Lunchroom—Tools for GeorgiaSchools”A team of FACS agents created TheA+ Lunchroom program to raise theawareness of indoor air quality issuesthat impact children’s health in schools.They educated 981 School NutritionProgram employees who impact118,741 children daily in 30 counties.The curriculum addressed IAQ pollu-tants, symptoms and methods of pre-vention.

Elisa Ann Shackelton (Colorado)“Radon Education in NW Colorado”Partnering with the Colorado Depart-ment of Public Health and Environ-ment, Moffat County CooperativeExtension has delivered radon educa-tion programs aimed at increasing pub-

lic awareness related to the health haz-ards of indoor radon. Educational out-reach has been accomplished throughthe use of TV, radio, newspaper, andnumerous public presentations.

Extension Housing OutreachAwardMartha Martin Pile, Dana Abee,Gwen A. Duvall (Tennessee)“Dream Team For Good Neighborhoods”The Dream Team and community part-ners are building good neighborhoods,through the establishment of a HomeBuyers Club. Under-represented peopleand families have a chance at theAmerican Dream of owning their ownhome and will be better able to meetthe obligation, challenges and benefitsof home ownership.

Treva D. Williams, Ann Smith,Barbara James, Dr. Christine Price,Dr. Meg Teaford, Dr. SusanZavotka, Lynda Fowler, MonadineB. Mattey, Pat Holmes (Ohio)“Universal Design: Housing Solutions for AllAges and Abilities”The Aging & Adult Development criti-cal issues team from Ohio State Uni-versity Extension developed a curricu-lum package to educate consumers,home improvement retailers, and otherprofessionals about the concepts ofUniversal Design, reaching over 900

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individuals with direct programmingand 17,000 through media sources.

Early Childhood Child CareTraining AwardJana Osbourn, Amy Chapman,Donna Williams, Kelly Thorp,Rebecca Rogers, Sandra Kunkel,Shea Nebgen (Texas)“Hill Country Professional Child CareProviders Conference”The Hill Country Professional ChildCare Providers Conference whichbegan nearly 20 years ago has sinceevolved into a dynamic, highly antici-pated educational program that reachesover 200 providers annually. In 2003,the conference had an economicimpact of over $2 million through sus-tained employment of the child careproviders.

Food Safety AwardDeilee N. Calvert-Minor (NewYork)“Food Safety Training Prepares Teens forCareers in the Food Industry”The Food Industry is the nation’slargest employer. To prepare low-income teens for successful careers, a5-week summer program focused oncareer options in the food industry.Students completed a certificationcourse in food safety to increaseemployability. Field trips provided a

chance to see food safety practices inaction.

Nutrition Media GrantDiane H. Whitten (New York)“Nutrition and Food Public ServiceAnnouncements for Radio”The mission of Cooperative Extensionto educate the public, and the need tomarket Cooperative Extension can beaccomplished through radio Public Ser-vice Announcements. A CD containingtwenty-four PSAs about nutrition willbe developed and sold to help educa-tors reach their target audience andtheir goals through local radio stations.

Clean Homes...Healthy FamiliesAwardDianne Margaret Miiller, CassandraS. Corridon, Madeleine Greene(Maryland)“A Healthier Maryland: Creative FoodSafety Education”Large outbreaks of food-borne illnessat local church suppers created aninterest in safe handling of food. Mary-land Extension Educators developedFeeding the Community-Safely!, Feed-ing the Children-Safely! and Neighbor-hood Grime Watch, reaching 19,475participants at 100 educational eventsand distributed on CD-ROM to 49 uni-versities & teachers.

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Susan K. White-Sayers, Diane M.Mason (Kentucky)“Healthy Centers, Healthy Kids”A two-hour, hands-on indoor air quali-ty issues workshop was held for childcare providers. The participants com-pleted activities to reinforce their learn-ing and to implement in their centerswhen working with students. The mis-sion: teachers educate their students;students educate their families aboutindoor air quality.

4-H Excellence in AfterschoolProgramming AwardLinda U. Byster, Rohan Brown,Shannon Kishel (New York)“The Green Teen Community GardeningProgram: An Holistic Approach to BuildingLife and Work Skills”The Green Teen Community Garden-ing Program provides life- and work-skills to 300 at-risk youth from Pough-keepsie, NY, through gardening activi-ties, food systems study, entrepreneurialdevelopment and academic study.Youth increase self-esteem, gain knowl-edge in nutrition, horticulture, financialmanagement, and the environment andgain respect and connectivity in theircommunity.

Lois Ann Clark, Ruth Anne FooteNancy Recker (Ohio)“About My Families and Me”About My Families and Me is a pro-gram for children living in a stepfamily.The curriculum addresses stepfamilyissues and helps children share, under-

stand and work through feelings. Byparticipating in journaling, gaming anddiscussion, children feel more positiveabout living in step.

Kori Renae Myers (Louisiana)“LSU AgCenter/Terrebonne Parish AfterSchool Program”The LSU AgCenter/Terrebonne ParishSchools CYFAR program Motivates,Obligates, Volunteers and Educatesyouth, while developing individualstrength to rise above all odds. MOVEgives at-risk students the ability todevelop marketable skills, form caringrelationships, strengthen self-esteemand build balanced principals. Theseskills develop physical and mentalhealth.

Cynthia R. Strasheim (Nebraska)“The Afterschool Zone”Cindy Strasheim worked with the mid-dle school Afterschool Zone as a vol-unteer until Cooperative Extensionagreed to provide leadership trainingand educational programming. As anAdvisory Board member, she hasaccessed more than $100,000 in grantsand in-kind donations of time, expert-ise, and supplies. 500 youth have gradu-ated the program.

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COMMUNICATIONS

AWARDS

NewslettersAlma Mancillas Fonseca—1st Place(Texas)Alma Fonseca leads the Brazos ValleyHomebuyer Education Coalition, con-sisting of 12 nonprofits and for profits,experienced housing specialists andrepresentatives from city governments.First-time homebuyer education is pro-vided to historically underserved areasof the Brazos Valley, including very lowto moderate income individuals,minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Lee Ann Joy Kendrick—2nd Place(Nevada)“4-H Leader News “The 4-H Leader News is a monthlypublication designed for the 4-H lead-ers in Southern Nevada. The newslettercovers pertinent information aboutupcoming events, club accomplish-ments, and educational topics.

Fay B. Strickler, Susan Giachero—3rd Place (Pennsylvania)“Consumer Connection”“Consumer Connection” focuses onfamily-related issues (foods, nutrition,food safety, child care, resource man-agement, etc.) and is distributed to alarge diverse urban/rural audience of2500 households/agencies. Fay Stricklerand Sue Giachero write the bi-monthlynewsletter and share relevant, research-

based information as well as offerExtension’s programs, services andopportunities.

RadioVirginia Gundlach Houseknecht,Cynthia Cave, Deb Champion, EllenDeFay, Helen Howard, LeslieKannus, Loree Symonds, Ryan Hill,Shana Karn—1st Place (New York)“EAT SMART NEW YORK RADIOSPOTS”Six diverse 30-second radio spots fea-ture nutrition education and promotionmessages targeted to low income listen-ers across 7 counties in upstate NewYork. The spots include testimonialsfrom Eat Smart New York programgraduates discussing the impact theprogram has had on their lives.

Phyllis B. Lewis—2nd Place(Wyoming)“Radio Food Safety PSA’s”Radio food safety PSA’s are importantreminders to listeners to follow safe,proper food-safety procedures — espe-cially during the holidays when manypeople may be helping in the kitchen.Each PSA was aired 45 times over tworadio stations, reaching an estimated16,000 listeners each airing.

Dianne Marie Swanson—3rd Place(Nebraska)Staff at the University of NebraskaCooperative Extension in Gage Countyprovide weekday radio spots every dayyear round. One minute spots air twice

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daily for five consecutive days. DianneSwanson focuses her efforts on topicareas of families, child/youth develop-ment, health, nutrition/food safety andconsumer issues.

TelevisionJan F. Scholl, Katherine Cason,WPSX Television—1st Place(Pennsylvania)“Mission Nutrition”Mission Nutrition acquainted 10,000(estimated) television viewers aboutproblems of obesity, September 7 and9, 2003. Produced by Katherine Cason,Jan Scholl and WPSX television, the15-minute tape cost $11,000 (NEP,public television and Penn State Out-reach grants). Other public televisionstations and the Extension HealthyCommunities project will benefit.

Cheryl Tickner, Cami Wells, CarolSchwarz—2nd Place (Nebraska)“Holiday Food Safety”Holiday Food Safety was an appropri-ate topic for the University of Nebras-ka Cooperative Extension’s MarketJournal Extra show which aired inNovember. During the half hour pro-gram, extension educators held a livelydiscussion with the show’s host whiledisplaying foods that require properhandling to avoid food-borne illness.

Sara Burczy, Amy Nickerson, KeithSilva, Linda Berlin, Stephen

Pintauro, Will Mikell—3rd Place(Vermont)“Healthy Eating, Healthy Aging TelevisionProgram”This program tells the story of aninnovative University of Vermontresearch project that enables seniors toaccess nutrition and health informationthrough the magic of computers. Theprogram uses a personal approach toshow how the project puts knowledgeand technology to work in a rural com-munity.

Written NewsJohanna S. Hicks—1st Place (Texas)“Advice to Teens: BCCC and Choose YourFriends Wisely”BCCC - Bad company corrupts charac-ter. That’s an acronym that parentsshould instill in their children. Choos-ing friends wisely was the overall themeof a series of newspaper columns tar-geting parents, encouraging them to beavailable to their children, while guidingthem through the tough adolescent andteen years.

Andrea Wise Bressler—2nd Place(Pennsylvania)“Strengthen Your Family”Strengthen Your Family news columnshave appeared every other week sinceOctober, 1985. Distribution hasincreased from the initial two newspa-pers to the current sixteen newspapersin eight rural central Pennsylvania

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counties. The column provides reassur-ance to busy working parents aboutcommon occurrences in today’s fami-lies, and reaches 92,250 subscribers.

Stephanie Toelle—3rd Place(Florida)“Growing Up in a World of Turmoil”Growing Up in a World of Turmoil,published in The First Coast Parent,shares strategies with parents to helptheir children cope with tensions result-ing from the war in Iraq. It addresseshow children may exhibit distress andgives proactive tips that are develop-mentally appropriate.

Overhead TransparenciesSusan Kathleen Morris, Joanne B.Hamilton, Judith A. Stuart, Lynn F.Little—1st Place (Maryland)“Identity Theft”Four Maryland Extension Family andConsumer Sciences Educators created a27-slide Identity Theft Program andhandout. Forty-four Identity Theftclasses, reaching 2,132 Maryland resi-dents, have been taught. In addition, anIdentity Theft radio spot was taped forUSDA Radio, reaching 675 radio sta-tions and the Voice of America.

Patricia Faughn—2nd Place(Illinois)“You and Your New Baby”You and Your New Baby is a curricu-lum with overheads developed for usewith new parents or those who workwith them, but could also be beneficialfor caregivers of infants. It outlineseight ways to support an infant’s needsand development, and build a strongparent-infant relationship.

Jan Bennett—3rd Place (Florida)“PowerPay Debt Reduction ComputerProgram”In 2003, 17 PowerPay analyses werecompleted for Collier County families.This educational program of UtahState University Extension, along withCD installation discs, was shared with42 Extension professionals fromthroughout the State via an AbstractPresentation using overhead trans-parencies at the annual Florida Associa-tion of Extension Professionals Con-ference.

Educational TechnologyEllen Schuster, Holly Berry, JaniceSmiley, Molly Engle, Renee Carr,Robert Rost, Sharon Cartwright,Steven Dodrill—1st Place (Oregon)“Helping Teen Parents Feed Their YoungChildren: A multimedia learning module forthose who teach teens”A multimedia-learning module on CD-ROM has proven to be an effective wayto provide critical training for facultyand staff throughout Oregon and

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reduce cumbersome curriculum note-books. Helping Teen Parents FeedTheir Young Children includes infor-mation on teenage learners, strategiesfor delivering education and contentinformation on three nutrition mes-sages.

Suzanne Pelican, Alice Henneman,Betty Holmes, Christine Pasley,Darlene Christensen, DeborahJohnson, Gail Gordon, MargaretCullen, Mary Kay Wardlaw, VickiHayman—2nd Place (Wyoming)“Small Victories”Small Victories is a mini-lesson seriespromoting positive food, physical activ-ity, and body image attitudes andbehaviors. Small Victories reflects themission and principles of WINWyoming, a multi-agency, multi-statenetwork that promotes healthy lifestylesinstead of a specific body size, shape,or weight.

Maryellen Garrison—3rd Place(Kentucky)“Arthritis Advice”This entry was developed for Exten-sion Homemaker Leader Trainings. Theprogram is designed to increase publicawareness of arthritis, to promote earlydiagnosis, and to minimize preventablepain. The disc contains a read-me file, aPowerPoint presentation, teaching plan,leader’s guide, handouts, and evaluationtool, all using Microsoft Word/Power-Point.

Educational CurriculumPackageMarsha Ann Hawkins, LindaGossett, Marilyn Bischoff—1st Place(Idaho)“Dollar Decision$—A New Approach toTeach Making Ends Meet”Dollar Decision$ is an innovative newcurriculum that features a video,teacher’s guide, PowerPoint slides, par-ticipant activities, and publications. Thecurriculum teaches how to identifyspending leaks, determine needs versuswants, track expenses, set financialgoals, develop a spending and savingplan, and ways to increase income anddecrease expenses.

Katherine L. Cason—2nd Place(South Carolina)“Nutrition Mission – A multimediaeducational tool for youth grades 4 - 6”Nutrition Mission is a unique and excit-ing multimedia educational package for4th through 6th grade students thatincludes a CD-ROM and web site. Itincludes lessons on the food guidepyramid, food labels, nutrient density,fast foods, snacking, physical activity,and food science. Nutrition Missionhelps youth make healthy choices.

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Rebecca Haynes-Bordas, D.Elizabeth Kiss, Frank J. Koontz—3rd Place (Indiana)“Making Your Money Work”Making Your Money Work increasesthe financial stability of low-literacy,low-income individuals. Led by a facili-tator, the series of workshops takesplace over a six-week period. The cur-riculum package includes a Trainer’sGuide, participant workbooks (availablein English or Spanish), budget cards,and a video kit for a home-study alter-native.

Educational PublicationsLuanne J. Hughes, GerryLeonarski, James Watson, JeromeFrecon, Mary Cummings, MichelleInfante-Casella, Peggy McKee—1stPlace (New Jersey)“The From Our Farms Guide to GloucesterCounty Farm Products”This brochure includes a map to identi-fy the location of 78 listed farms, and atable listing farm location, hours ofoperation and commodities/servicesavailable. The Guide can be used inde-pendently or with the From Our Farmsnutrition and agriculture education pro-gram operating in local libraries,schools and child care centers.

Sondra M. Parmer, BarbaraStruempler—2nd Place (Alabama)“Laugh a Little and Make Your TummyHappy Perpetual Calendar”Laugh a Little and Make Your TummyHappy is a timeless 365-day perpetualcalendar. This unique educational publi-cation makes the reader respond tonutrition and health principals in a pos-itive manner on a daily basis. It is bold-ly colorful, eye-catching, and filled withhumorous nutrition quotes, statements,and jokes.

Stephanie Toelle, Casilda Vargas,Kristi O’Neal, Mark Al-Amad—3rdPlace (Florida)“Kinship Caregiver Guide 2003-04”The Kinship Caregiver Guide 2003-04was created as a resource tool for kin-ship caregivers in Jacksonville, Florida.Developed as a collaborative projectbetween Extension and the local AreaAgency on Aging, over 2,000 copies ofthe guide have been distributed. Onehundred thirty-four agencies aredetailed in the guide.

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

AWARDS

Marketing Package AwardJo Lynn Jennings, JosephineCostillo, Shirley Chambers, LorriJones (Texas)Jo Lynn Jennings developed and coor-dinated a marketing plan to publicize acollaborative educational programamong seven Houston area agencies/organizations to sponsor and conducttwo programs, Meal Solutions For BusyPeople, to teach families how to pre-pare quick, nutritious meals at home. Avariety of marketing techniques wasused.

June Annette Puett, DonnaCalhoun, Heather Kyle, Kaye Smith,Tiffany Worley (Tennessee)“Using a Sports Theme to Market FinancialManagement”The Chattanooga Area Tennessee Savescoalition utilized a creative marketingstrategy to promote the TennesseeSaves campaign and encourage partici-pation at the campaign kickoff at aminor league baseball game. Sportsfans and potential savers receivedmoney management messages and

tools such as the ballpark retirementestimator at the game.

Community Partnership AwardLisa D. Jordan, Laurie Cantrell(Georgia) “Chatham Child Care Collaborative”Chatham Child Care Collaborative is apartnership of 12 local agencies; thelargest single source of child care train-ing in Savannah, Georgia; providing185,380 educational contact hours toover 12,053 providers attending 350classes/events; over $59,000 awarded ingrants; in-kind services and 500 volun-teer hours have been valued over$300,000.

Professional DevelopmentAwardsEXTENSION EDUCATOR OF

THE YEAR AWARD

Eileen Marie Krumbach (Nebraska) Reaching new audiences and collabora-tion are the strengths of Eileen Krum-bach. Working with over 40 groups hasled to the development of the YorkCounty Community Health Coalition,Inc. Services have been expanded espe-cially for high risk families as a result ofthis coalition making the community ahealthier place.

FLORENCE HALL AWARD

Patricia Faughn, Amy Griswold,Angela Wiley, Debbie McClellen,Gisela Grumbach, RachelSchwarzendruber, Sherry Rocha(Illinois) Intentional Harmony: Managing Workand Parenting is a research-based cur-riculum unit that is part of a larger cur-riculum. It is for use with employedparents, supervisors, and humanresource personnel. It encouragesemployed parents to find ways to effec-tively manage and be satisfied in boththeir parenting and work.

Delores Kaye Henderson, CarolynHendricks, Cheryl Jacobs, DiannSteinheuser, Liz Gorham, Marjorie

Kolb, Nancy Pauly, Sally ParkHageman, Sandra Aamlid (SouthDakota) Identity Theft Prevention seeks to limitthe spread of identity theft in SouthDakota. This statewide SDSU Exten-sion campaign informs consumers howcriminals target victims, details whatconsumers can do personally to mini-mize the risk of losing their identity,and suggests actions to be taken shouldthey become a victim.

Jinny Kay Hopp (Missouri) Families and Divorce is an interactiveworkshop for professionals workingwith children whose parents havedivorced. This workshop extends infor-mation from the Focus on Kids divorceeducation program to extend dataabout marriage and divorce, children’sreactions to divorce and strategies touse with children who have experi-enced parental divorce.

Cynthia R. Strasheim (Nebraska) Cindy Strasheim saw children ofdivorce in need. She designed KidsTalk About Divorce for children ages5-18. $100,000 in grants providedfunds to develop curriculum, trainteachers, and evaluate the programs.600 kids have successfully completedthe classes. Classes are offeredstatewide with the goal of bilingualeducation.

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CENTRAL REGION FINALISTS

NEW PROFESSIONAL AWARD

Joan Broughton Miller (Michigan) As a new professional, I restructuredthe Family Nutrition Program to meetthe needs of many county residentsincluding low-income senior partici-pants. Creative collaborations resultedin match for the Grant and a morepublic profile for Extension. Innova-tive, interactive programming and foodsafety training for professionals arehigh priorities.

PARA-PROFESSIONAL AWARD

Gladys Jerome (Michigan) Gladys Jerome has worked for MSUExt-ension’s Family Nutrition Programfor over five years. She has consistentlymade an effort to make each partici-pant she works with feel that they areunique and worthwhile individuals. Shenot only teaches food skills but selfworth to her participants.

Program AwardsDEAN DON FELKER

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

AWARD

Kathleen Marie Metzenbauer(Wisconsin) “Family Finances Workshops For Housing”In response to the news of plant clos-ings, job layoffs and budget deficits inJuneau County, Wisc., a subcommitteeof the Juneau County EconomicDevelopment Corporation HousingCommittee organized three Family

Finances Workshops to promote finan-cial proficiency to families.

Evelyn Prasse, Charlotte Crawford,Debbie Bartman, Dr. PaulMcNamara, Ellen Burton, JenniferHunt, Karen Chan, Kathy Reuter,Kathy Sweedler, Linda CrawlJackson, Lois Smith, Mary AnnFugate, Pat Hildebrand, SusanTaylor (Illinois) “Your Money & Your Life”The Consumer & Family Economicsteam collaborated with the FinancialLinks for Low-Income People Coali-tion to develop the train-the-trainercurriculum, Your Money & Your Life.Extension Educators teach agency per-sonnel to reteach the curriculum thatincludes insurance, banking, predatorylending, debt management, investing,job and public benefits, and tax issues.

MARY W. WELLS DIVERSITY

AWARD

Kimberly Ann Greder, AnthonySantiago, Catherine Hunt, CynthiaGarcia Coll, Daniel Ossian, DianaBroshar, Francisco Villarruel, JoyceHoward, Juls Design, LauraSternweis, Rosa Milagros (Amy)Santos, William Allen (Iowa) “Cultural Perspectives on Parenting”Cultural Perspectives on Parenting, a 2-part satellite series, reached 2,900 pro-fessionals at 253 sites in 29 states dur-ing 2003. Participants increased their

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understanding of cultural influences onparenting and on the family-profession-al relationship, parenting challenges ofnew immigrants and applying family-centered practices to work with familiesof diverse cultures.

ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION AWARD

Carrie Schneider-Miller, John Fech,Sharon Skipton (Nebraska) “Living Safely With Lead”University of Nebraska Extension,Douglas/Sarpy Counties is providingprogramming to help educate people tolive safely with lead. This program isespecially pertinent in Omaha wherethe EPA has targeted areas as havinghigh levels of lead. A high percentageof children test positive for lead poi-soning in this area.

EXTENSION HOUSING

OUTREACH AWARD

Treva D. Williams, Ann Smith,Barbara James, Dr. Christine Price,Dr. Meg Teaford, Dr. SusanZavotka, Lynda Fowler, MonadineB. Mattey, Pat Holmes (Ohio) “Universal Design: Housing Solutions for AllAges and Abilities”The Aging & Adult Development criti-cal issues team from Ohio State Uni-versity Extension developed a curricu-lum package to educate consumers,home improvement retailers, and other

professionals about the concepts ofUniversal Design, reaching over 900individuals with direct programmingand 17,000 through media sources.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CHILD

CARE TRAINING AWARD

Joan E. LeFebvre, Celine Kegley,Jaimie Mager, Janet Nanninga, LoriFriberg, Robin Mainhardt, SandraLewens (Wisconsin) “Early Childhood Brain Development”Early experiences affect the developingbrain, permanently shaping a child’spotential to learn. Children who arenurtured in a consistent, gentle mannerhave a greater chance to succeed inschool, community, and workplace. Theworkshop series, Early Childhood BrainDevelopment, equipped child careproviders with the newest early braindevelopment research.

FOOD SAFETY AWARD

Kathryn Kee Dodrill (Ohio) “Food Safety for Food Handlers”In 2001, the Ohio Uniform Food Safe-ty Code was revised. Local healthdepartment authorities teamed withExtension for a monthly 3-hour train-ing session to inform supervisors andemployees of the changes in the law,and to educate food service establish-ment workers about safe food handingpractices.

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4-H EXCELLENCE IN

AFTERSCHOOL

PROGRAMMING AWARD

Lois Ann Clark, Ruth Anne Foote,Nancy Recker (Ohio) “About My Families and Me”About My Families and Me is a pro-gram for children living in a stepfamily.The curriculum addresses stepfamilyissues and helps children share, under-stand and work through feelings. Byparticipating in journaling, gaming anddiscussion, children feel more positiveabout living in step.

Cynthia R. Strasheim (Nebraska) “The Afterschool Zone”Cindy Strasheim worked with the mid-dle school Afterschool Zone as a vol-unteer until Cooperative Extensionagreed to provide leadership trainingand educational programming. As anAdvisory Board member, she hasaccessed more than $100,000 in grantsand in-kind donations of time, expert-ise, and supplies. 500 youth have gradu-ated the program.

Communications AwardsNEWSLETTERS

R. Kris Jenkins—1st Place(Missouri) “Silver Threads”Silver Threads is a newsletter designedfor limited resource, elderly(over 65)and reaches 1300 households and over1900 persons in West Central Missouri.Extension specialists provide nonbiased

coverage of topics related to health andwellness, housing, safety, family rela-tionships and consumer issues.

Jinnifer Paulette Gibbs—2nd Place(Michigan) “Children, Youth and Family Newsletter”The CYF Newsletter is a resourceshared with Ottawa County communitymembers and stakeholders on a quar-terly basis that provides research basedinformation on a variety of topics. ThisNewsletter promotes MSU ExtensionChildren, Youth and Family program-ming and the Family Nutrition Pro-gram and encourages participationwithin these programs.

Cynthia Rae Shuster, KimberlyBarnhart—3rd Place (Ohio) “Family Tapestries . . . Strengthening FamilyBonds Family & Consumer SciencesNewsletter”Family Tapestries . . . StrengtheningFamily Bonds, the Perry County Family& Consumer Sciences Newsletter, cov-ers a broad range of program areasthat reflect the varied interest of itsrural county residents. It includes tradi-tional subject matter areas whilestretching readers’ minds to reachbeyond the traditional subject matter.

RADIO

Dianne Marie Swanson—1st Place(Nebraska) Staff at the University of NebraskaCooperative Extension in Gage County

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provide weekday radio spots every dayyear round. One minute spots air twicedaily for five consecutive days. DianneSwanson focuses her efforts on topicareas of families, child/youth develop-ment, health, nutrition/food safety andconsumer issues.

Beth D. Gaydos—2nd Place (Ohio) “Sending and Receiving Food Gifts”This late morning interview broadcast isaired three times weekly on three sisterstations. It reaches 90,000 listeners in amulti-county area of southeastern Ohio.Topics apply to a general audience andinclude practical tips or programannouncements. This interview featuredsuggestions for safely sending andreceiving holiday food gifts.

Jinnifer Paulette Gibbs, RonStevens—3rd Place (Michigan) “Children, Youth and Family Programmingon WGHN”In a collaborative effort between MSUExtension and WGHN Radio in GrandHaven, weekly pre-taped radio pro-grams on a variety of topics are provid-ed to a potential audience of 50,000 lis-teners. The programs highlighted inthis application provided informationon Michigan’s Parenting AwarenessMonth focusing on Grandparents andEffective Parenting.

TELEVISION

Cheryl Tickner, Cami Wells, CarolSchwarz—1st Place (Nebraska) “Holiday Food Safety”Holiday Food Safety was an appropri-ate topic for the University of Nebras-ka Cooperative Extension’s MarketJournal Extra show which aired inNovember. During the half hour pro-gram, extension educators held a livelydiscussion with the show’s host whiledisplaying foods that require properhandling to avoid food-borne illness.

WRITTEN NEWS

Beverly Ann Combs—1st Place(Illinois) “Women and Coronary Heart Disease”Coronary heart disease is not just aman’s health problem. It is a very seri-ous disease of women, a major killerwhose threat goes unnoticed or mini-mized by many. Coronary heart diseaseis about heredity and lifestyle. Womenneed to change dangerous lifestyle fac-tors like smoking, overeating, and beingsedentary.

Linda Kay Walter—2nd Place(Kansas) “Meal Time, Family Time”This news column, written by Linda K.Walter, Family and Consumer SciencesAgent in Finney County, Kansas,describes the benefits of a shared fami-ly meal time on family communication,nutrition, children’s social and intellec-tual development, and children’s resist-ance to negative peer pressure. Readers

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are offered resources for balancedmeals to prepare and eat together.

OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES

Patricia Faughn—1st Place (Illinois) “You and Your New Baby”You and Your New Baby is a curricu-lum with overheads developed for usewith new parents or those who workwith them, but could also be beneficialfor caregivers of infants. It outlineseight ways to support an infant’s needsand development, and build a strongparent-infant relationship.

Mary F. Longo, Cheryl Barber—2ndPlace (Ohio) “What’s New at the Grocery Store?”What’s New at the Grocery Store pro-vides current trends in food marketing,food packaging and consumer buying.Consumer behaviors and food shop-ping habits are discussed as the keys togrocery store trends. The programchanges continually as many new foodproducts come and go very quickly.

EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM

PACKAGE

Rebecca Haynes-Bordas, D.Elizabeth Kiss, Frank J. Koontz—1stPlace (Indiana) “Making Your Money Work “Making Your Money Work increasesthe financial stability of low-literacy,low-income individuals. Led by a facili-tator, the series of workshops takesplace over a six-week period. The cur-riculum package includes a Trainer’s

Guide, participant workbooks (availablein English or Spanish), budget cards,and a video kit for a home-study alter-native.

Carol Jean Schwarz, Cami Wells,Cheryl Tickner, Julie Albrecht,PhD—2nd Place (Nebraska) “Road to Food Safety”Food safety is an important issue forchildren and schools. The ultimate foodsafety goal of school food service is toreduce the risk of food safety prob-lems. To help schools obtain their goal,food service managers were trained toidentify and write Standard OperatingProcedures for their facility.

EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Rebecca Ann Baer, Deanna L.Tribe—1st Place (Ohio) “Folkways and Rural Life Trail”Folkways and Rural Life Trail, abrochure illustrating how folk liferelates to family stability and communi-ty development, was created as part ofa pilot project that allowed people tobetter understand their local heritageand folkways by putting folklore to use.

Cynthia R. Strasheim—2nd Place(Nebraska) “Parenting From A Distance”Non-custodial parents often feelexcluded from the lives of their chil-dren after divorce. This Fact Sheet pro-vides tips to stay connected using fun

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and non-traditional methods of com-munication. Grandparents and otherrelatives at a distance will also benefitfrom this information.

Donna R. Martinson—3rd Place(Kansas) “Brain Blitz - A Campaign to Keep YourBrain Functioning At Its Best”Brain Blitz - A Campaign to Keep YourBrain Functioning at Its Best, is the pri-mary information piece distributed tosupport an educational program onmemory enhancement and maintainingoptimal mental functioning.

Public Relations AwardsCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

AWARD

Ingrid Joy Lindberg, Carolyn R.Hendricks (South Dakota) “Extension/Head Start Partnership ReachesYoung Families in Rural South Dakota”Rural young families with small chil-dren may not have the resources toprovide nutritious food for their family.A partnership between South DakotaExtension and Badlands Early HeadStart is providing a means to reachthese families to help improve theirnutritional status thus a healthier out-come for their children.

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FellowshipsGRACE FRYSINGER

FELLOWSHIP

Jan F. Scholl (Pennsylvania) During this fellowship, Jan Scholl willconduct research to create a video doc-umentary of Extension FCS historyand a book about Martha Van Rennse-lear, Extension FCS pioneer. Fourweeks travel is planned to Archives II,near College Park, Maryland and to theCornell University Archives in Ithaca,New York.

Professional DevelopmentAwardsFLORENCE HALL AWARD

Dianne Margaret Miiller (Maryland) With the alarming growth of diabetesin our Latino-Hispanic community,there is a need to provide informationto uninsured patients at high risk formany medical problems. Clases paraDiabeticos Latinos was developed toprovide diabetes information, hands onnutrition activities, and cooking classesto patients and their family members.

Barbara M. O’Neill, Maria Young,Pat Brennan (New Jersey) Predatory Lending Practices and CreditRip-Offs is a 10-module curriculum forNew Jersey High School teachers. Over

450 teachers received the curriculumand over 800 consumers were taughtwith the stand-alone identity theftmodule. Two external grants totaling$51,000 supported development of thecurriculum and six subsequent teachertraining workshops.

Nancy B. Stevens (Pennsylvania) Low-income children entering Kinder-garten often demonstrate a lack ofdevelopmental skills commonly identi-fied with school readiness. This projectis a multi-faceted approach to betterprepare the parents, the child careproviders, and ultimately the childrenfor their first formal educational expe-rience.

Brenda J. Williams, Dr. Robert J.Thee, Frances F. Alloway(Pennsylvania) The Community Bridge Projectengages individuals lacking the personalskills and self-motivation to changetheir lives and to retain employment.The project assists individuals and busi-nesses in finding and retaining qualifiedworkers. This is accomplished throughpublic-private collaborations amonghuman service agencies, private agen-cies, business and education.

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Denise Hanner Continenza(Pennsylvania) The applicant for this award has forgedmany collaborations within her com-munity during the past 2 and 1/2 years.She has also developed and successfullyimplemented programs that meet theneeds of the people in her communityby utilizing extension resources as wellas by consulting with advisory boardmembers.


Theresa Serio (Maryland) Terry Serio has worked as ExtensionEducator in Maryland for 2 years. Shehas reached over 2500 low income andspecial students with programs encour-aging economical food preparation,proper food storage and safety. She hasdeveloped programs with themes, spe-cial events, and experiential activities toensure memorable and dynamic learn-ing.



AWARD

Susan Kathleen Morris, Jinhee Kim,Ph.D., Joanne B. Hamilton, JudithA. Stuart, Lynn F. Little (Maryland) “Bringing Financial Education into theWorkplace”

A Maryland Cooperative Extensionworkplace education program, A Pre-scription for Financial Wellne$$, helpsMaryland employees assess their fiscalhealth. Through classes, group interac-tion and homework assignments,17,000+ residents learned to plan, save,and make other prudent financial man-agement decisions. Successful Exten-sion, governmental, university andagency partnerships have been formed.

Barbara M. O’Neill, Connie Kratzer,Gerri Walsh, Irene Leech, JaneSchuchardt, Linda Kirk Fox, NancyPorter, Pat Brennan (New Jersey) “Investing For Your Future”Investing For Your Future was devel-oped to assist beginning investors andthose with small dollar amounts toinvest. Components include a 158-pagehome study course, class series, andmonthly e-mail message to registeredonline users.

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PROGRAM EXCELLENCE

THROUGH RESEARCH AWARD

Jan F. Scholl (Pennsylvania) “Evidence of a Research Base”Graduate research representing 1911-2002 was collected and analyzed, andthe 281-page book, Making the BestBetter: 4-H Graduate Research 1911-2002, was published. The study pro-vides evidence that a research base for4-H and Extension Family and Con-sumer Sciences exists though previousstudies refuted this finding.

ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION AWARD

Karen M. Ensle, Joan Lytle, MelanieHughes McDermott (New Jersey) “Should I Eat the Fish I Catch?”Urban, Latino pregnant women fromElizabeth, NJ, consume locally-caughtfish contaminated by methyl mercury,dioxin and PCB’s. A display (exhibitboard) in English/Spanish was devel-oped on the selection, preparation andcooking fish under advisories. Hand-outs in both languages are distributedwith the display at communityevents/classes.


CARE TRAINING AWARD

Liat Lauren Mackey (Maryland) “Kitchen Fun with Kids”Child care providers unleash their cre-ativity in the two-hour experientialworkshop, Kitchen Fun with Kids.Using a learner-centered approach,

providers engage in food fun and ideasharing that boosts their confidence inproviding meaningful food experiencesand encouraging healthy eating inyoung children. Most providers ratethis workshop as excellent.

FOOD SAFETY AWARD

Deilee N. Calvert-Minor (NewYork) “Food Safety Training Prepares Teens forCareers in the Food Industry”The Food Industry is the nation’slargest employer. To prepare low-income teens for successful careers, a5-week summer program focused oncareer options in the food industry.Students completed a certificationcourse in food safety to increaseemployability. Field trips provided achance to see food safety practices inaction.

NUTRITION MEDIA GRANT

Diane H. Whitten (New York) “Nutrition and Food Public ServiceAnnouncements for Radio”The mission of Cooperative Extensionto educate the public, and the need tomarket Cooperative Extension can beaccomplished through radio Public Ser-vice Announcements. A CD containingtwenty-four PSAs about nutrition willbe developed and sold to help educa-tors reach their target audience andtheir goals through local radio stations.

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CLEAN HOMES HEALTHY

FAMILIES AWARD

Dianne Margaret Miiller, CassandraS. Corridon, Madeleine Greene(Maryland) “A Healthier Maryland: Creative FoodSafety Education”Large outbreaks of food borne illnessat local church suppers created aninterest in safe handling of food. Mary-land Extension Educators developedFeeding the Community-Safely!, Feed-ing the Children-Safely! and Neighbor-hood Grime Watch, reaching 19,475participants at 100 educational eventsand distributed on CD-ROM to 49 uni-versities & teachers.

4-H EXCELLENCE IN

AFTERSCHOOL

PROGRAMMING AWARD

Linda U. Byster, Rohan Brown,Shannon Kishel (New York) “The Green Teen Community GardeningProgram: An Holistic Approach to BuildingLife and Work Skills”The Green Teen Community Garden-ing Program provides life- and work-skills to 300 at-risk youth from Pough-keepsie, NY, through gardening activi-ties, food systems study, entrepreneurialdevelopment and academic study.Youth increase self-esteem, gain knowl-edge in nutrition, horticulture, financialmanagement, and the environment and

gain respect and connectivity in theircommunity.


Robin Lynn Kuleck—1st Place(Pennsylvania) “Money Matters”An educational outreach tool, “MoneyMatters” helps human service person-nel and their clientele, who might notattend workshops due to geographic,transportation or time-constraints,improve their financial situations. Over350 personnel in four rural north cen-tral Pennsylvania counties receive thismonthly newsletter ultimately benefit-ing over 2,100 people.

Priscilla Graves—2nd Place(Maryland) “Family Issues in Focus Newsletter “The goal of the Family Issues in FocusNewsletter is to announce future edu-cational programs, inform the generalpublic of Maryland Cooperative Exten-sion Fact Sheets, recruit potential vol-unteers for the Volunteer FinancialCounselor Program and teach the gen-eral public about Enhancing FamilyLife and Increasing Family EconomicStability.

Fay B. Strickler, Susan Giachero—3rd Place (Pennsylvania) “Consumer Connection”“Consumer Connection” focuses onfamily-related issues (foods, nutrition,food safety, child care, resource man-

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agement, etc.) and is distributed to alarge diverse urban/rural audience of2500 households/agencies. Fay Stricklerand Sue Giachero write the bi-monthlynewsletter and share relevant, research-based information as well as offerExtension’s programs, services andopportunities.

RADIO

Virginia Gundlach Houseknecht,Cynthia Cave, Deb Champion, EllenDeFay, Helen Howard, LeslieKannus, Loree Symonds, Ryan Hill,Shana Karn—1st Place (New York) “EAT SMART NEW YORK RADIOSPOTS”Six diverse 30-second radio spots fea-ture nutrition education and promotionmessages targeted to low income listen-ers across 7 counties in upstate NewYork. The spots include testimonialsfrom Eat Smart New York programgraduates discussing the impact the pro-gram has had on their lives.

Phyllis M. Wright—2nd Place(Pennsylvania) “Dealing with an Angry Child”Daily Cooperative Extension radio pro-grams provide family and consumersscience information for Warren Countyaudiences. Dealing with an angry childbroadcast helps parents, child careproviders and others caring for childrenoptions for handling adult and chil-dren’s anger.

Judy H. Branch—3rd Place(Vermont) “Balancing Work and Family: Child Care”Balancing Work and Family: Child Careis one radio spot in a series I createdfrom the publication, Navigating Work& Family, by Harriet Shaklee, Universi-ty of Idaho Extension, 2003, found athttp://cyfernet.org . It played onWDEV in Central Region for the Uni-versity of Vermont Extension FamilyConsumer Sciences program.

TELEVISION

Jan F. Scholl, Katherine Cason,WPSX Television—1st Place(Pennsylvania) “Mission Nutrition”Mission Nutrition acquainted 10,000(estimated) television viewers aboutproblems of obesity, September 7 and9, 2003. Produced by Katherine Cason,Jan Scholl and WPSX television, the15-minute tape cost $11,000 (NEP,public television and Penn State Out-reach grants). Other public televisionstations and the Extension HealthyCommunities project will benefit.

Sara Burczy, Amy Nickerson, KeithSilva, Linda Berlin, StephenPintauro, Will Mikell—2nd Place(Vermont) “HEALTHY EATING, HEALTHYAGING Television Program”HEALTHY EATING, HEALTHYAGING tells the story of an innovative

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University of Vermont research projectthat enables seniors to access nutritionand health information through themagic of computers. The program usesa personal approach to show how theproject puts knowledge and technologyto work in a rural community.

Susan M. Figaro Grace, Mary LeeBourbeau—3rd Place (New York) “Household Resource Management”This is a public access television showthat was written and presented by twoCooperative Extension Educators. Thiseducational program highlighted basichousehold budget practices and foodresource practices that consumers canadopt to help them save more andspend less for the future.

WRITTEN NEWS

Andrea Wise Bressler—1st Place(Pennsylvania) “Strengthen Your Family”Strengthen Your Family news columnshave appeared every other week sinceOctober, 1985. Distribution hasincreased from the initial two newspa-pers to the current sixteen newspapersin eight rural central Pennsylvaniacounties. The column provides reassur-ance to busy working parents aboutcommon occurrences in today’s fami-lies, and reaches 92,250 subscribers.

Barbara M. O’Neill—2nd Place(New Jersey) “Financial Fitness Feature Article”This feature article, which reachedabout 60,000 readers of a northwestNew Jersey newspaper, includes aFinancial Fitness Quiz identical to Rut-gers Cooperative Extension’s interactiveonline quiz and financial advice fromthe author and area financial profes-sionals that she interviewed.

Dianne Hall Lamb—3rd Place(Vermont) “Milk Makes the Grade”Adequate intakes of calcium duringchildhood and adolescence are key toosteoporosis prevention in later life.Researchers indicate American teensare in a calcium crisis because of inade-quate calcium intakes. Local agriculturaland community groups are collaborat-ing to increase visibility and availabilityof dairy products in local schools.


Susan Kathleen Morris, Joanne B.Hamilton, Judith A. Stuart, Lynn F.Little—1st Place (Maryland) “Identity Theft”Four Maryland Extension Family andConsumer Sciences Educators created a27-slide Identity Theft Program andhandout. Forty-four Identity Theftclasses, reaching 2,132 Maryland resi-dents, have been taught. In addition, anIdentity Theft radio spot was taped forUSDA Radio, reaching 675 radio sta-tions and the Voice of America.

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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Barbara M. O’Neill, PhilWisneski—1st Place (New Jersey) “Rutgers Cooperative Extension MONEY2000 Web Site”The Rutgers Cooperative Extensionmoney and investing web site,www.rce.rutgers. edu/money2000, pro-vides financial information to con-sumers 24/7 and visibility as a sourceof credible information. Componentsinclude downloadable worksheets, nar-rated online PowerPoint presentations,conference summaries, and interactiveself-assessment tools.

Marilyn L. Sullivan, Deborah Maes,Shirley LeBlanc—2nd Place (NewHampshire) “Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Pie Plate -PowerPoint Program”This 1 1/2 hour PowerPoint presenta-tion provides an overview of theprocess of transferring personal pos-sessions. It was adapted from Universi-ty of Minnesota’s curriculum inresponse for a shorter format. Itincreases awareness and knowledgethrough discussion and handouts, andmotivates individuals to assess theirown situation and take action.

Mary R. Ehret, Robin Rex—3rdPlace (Pennsylvania) "The Diet Dilemma"The Diet Dilemma, a wellness pro-gram, a series of three interactive pro-grams which ask participants if theyare ready to "go on a diet" the implica-tions, and the importance of increasing

physical activity. The third programbuilds skills which a person would needif they should choose to diet.


Luanne J. Hughes, GerryLeonarski, James Watson, JeromeFrecon, Mary Cummings, MichelleInfante-Casella, Peggy McKee—1stPlace (New Jersey) “The From Our Farms Guide to GloucesterCounty Farm Products”This brochure includes a map to identi-fy the location of 78 listed farms, and atable listing farm location, hours ofoperation and commodities/servicesavailable. The Guide can be used inde-pendently or with the From Our Farmsnutrition and agriculture education pro-gram operating in local libraries,schools and child care centers.

Liat Lauren Mackey—2nd Place(Maryland) “Eat Size-Wise”Fast foods contribute significantly toenergy and fat intake, and super-sizingportions contributes to obesity inAmerica. At a glance, the Eat Size-Wiseposter shows consumers how large fastfood portions lead to over consump-tion. This eye-catching conversationpiece has caught hundreds of fast foodeaters by surprise.

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Public Relations AwardsMARKETING PACKAGE AWARD

Frances F. Alloway, Nancy Jennings(Pennsylvania) “Marketing Package for Child CareTrainings in Delaware County”Penn State Cooperative Extension -Delaware County has become a leadagency in providing trainings for childcare providers. Increased marketing wasneeded to inform providers of the pro-gramming. An expanded marketingpackage has improved attendance, visi-bility and attracted agencies, trainersand sites wishing to be part of this out-reach.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

AWARD

Brenda J. Williams, Dr. Natalie M.Ferry, Dr. Robert J. Thee, Frances F.Alloway (Pennsylvania) “Mellon Community Bridge Project”The Community Bridge Projectengages individuals lacking the personalskills and self-motivation to changetheir lives and to retain employment.The project assists individuals and busi-nesses in finding and retaining qualifiedworkers. This is accomplished throughpublic-private collaborations amonghuman service agencies, private agen-cies, business and education.

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THE YEAR AWARD

Debbie W. Purvis (Georgia) Throughout her career with the GeorgiaExtension Service, Debbie Purvis hasdeveloped a variety of innovative pro-grams in the areas of nutrition and foodsafety, as well as secured grant fundingthrough community collaborations inreaching Georgia’s growing Latino pop-ulation in rural Colquitt County.

FLORENCE HALL AWARD

Donna Mae Fryman, DebraCotterill, Judith Ann Foster, SallyMineer, Terry Whalen (Kentucky) Agri-tourism in the Buffalo Traceregion of KY is being used as amethod to overcome the loss of themain cash crop—tobacco. FCS agentshave organized, educated, and promot-ed agri-tourism businesses to the publicas well as assisted in establishing legisla-tion to promote agri-tourism in thestate.

Johanna S. Hicks (Texas) An estimated 18 million US citizens,including 1,550 Hopkins County resi-dents, have been diagnosed with dia-betes. Through conferences, diabetesmanagement classes, educational

exhibits, support groups, weeklycolumns, and one-on-one visits,10,000+ Hopkins County residentswere reached. Improved adherence todiabetes management practices werereported in all surveyed.

Sondra M. Parmer, BarbaraStruempler (Alabama) Come and Get It interactively teachesand assesses farm-to-table food con-cepts to young children. Used as anactivity, Extension educators engagestudents in learning during a singleclass. Used as an evaluation, nutritionclasses are taught in between usingCome and Get It as a pre- and post-assessment.

Calley Jo Runnels, Beth Dannheim,Carmen Aguirre, Clara Soliz, DeanaSageser, Debbie Pollard, Dr.Richard Wampler, Mary AnnGutierrez, Nenetzin Reyes (Texas) For exemplary service in conducting acomprehensive bilingual parenting edu-cational program, Parenting ThroughChange, which reached numerousdivorced and single Hispanic mothersand their children on the Texas SouthPlains and resulted in improved parent-ing skills and potentially reduced nega-tive behaviors of their children.

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Karen Munden (Virginia) Karen Munden has worked with severalcommunity agencies and organizationsto offer Financial Literacy, HousingEducation, and Consumer Educationworkshops for South Hampton Roads,Virginia, citizens. These workshopstaught adults to make positive impactson their living conditions. Also, age-appropriate curricula were utilized toteach youth money management con-cepts.


B. Kaye Stiltner (Virginia) Kaye Stiltner has demonstrated out-standing work from the very first day inher position as a SCNEP programassistant. She is meeting the needs ofher clients in five diverse countiesthrough Super Pantry programs andmaking a positive impact on their foodsafety and nutrition habits.



AWARD

Jan Bennett (Florida) “Legal Checkup Program”The Legal Checkup Program, executedin Collier County, Florida, was the firstExtension Service/AARP collaborationof this particular program in the entire

nation. It resulted in a national USDA-CSREES/AARP partnership andbecame part of a Tool Kit for thenational Extension Initiative, FinancialSecurity In Later Life.

Chris Procise (Florida) “Adapting to Unusual Opportunities”Martin County’s Decisions for Inde-pendent Living series - an 8-lesson pro-gram teaching personal money manage-ment and living skills - is taught toyouths and adults at Jail, Boot Campand substance abuse facilities. Theseare people with attitudes who dorespond to special handling. Over 6years, 2,237 participants graduated.

MARY W. WELLS DIVERSITY

AWARD

Lisa A. Guion (Florida), CarolynPerkins, MPH (Texas), Dr. H.Wallace Goddard (Arkansas), GaeBroadwater (Kentucky), SamanthaChattaraj, Stephanie Sullivan-Lytle(Florida)“Strengthening Programs To Reach DiverseAudiences Project”There is a growing body of researchthat presents strategies for planning,marketing and implementing programsthat will be more effective with ethni-cally diverse audiences. Drawing uponthis literature, the project team devel-oped and implemented a six-unit cur-riculum, and many other resources, tobuild cultural competence amongExtension educators.

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PROGRAM EXCELLENCE


Laura F. Stephenson, Denise Lewis,Elizabeth Hunter, Jennifer Gatz,Kim Stansbury (Kentucky) “A Community-Based Solution to Elders’Health Disparities”Many of America’s communities aregraying as baby boomers age. The abili-ty of a community to meet the needsof elders is complex. This studyassessed a community’s elderservice/support infrastructure throughsurveys, in-depth interviews and com-munity assessment in order to developa broad-based local initiative to pro-mote successful aging.

ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION AWARD

Judy Bland, Dr. Jorge Atiles, RachelWest, Terri Cameron (Georgia) “The A+ Lunchroom—Tools for GeorgiaSchools”A team of FACS agents created TheA+ Lunchroom program to raise theawareness of indoor air quality issuesthat impact children’s health in schools.They educated 981 School NutritionProgram employees who impact118,741 children daily in 30 counties.The curriculum addressed IAQ pollu-tants, symptoms and methods of pre-vention.

Amy Chilcote, Dr. Sandy Wiggins,Nancy Abasiekong, Susan Chase(North Carolina) “Tools for Schools Program: An AsthmaIntervention Outreach”In recent years, NC families have expe-rienced a dramatic rise in the preva-lence of asthma. FCS Agents in threecounties piloted an asthma interventionoutreach program. 438 school adminis-trators, faculty, and maintenance/custo-dial staff were trained through eightseminars conducted in 2003. Over45,000 students were impacted withthis pilot program.

EXTENSION HOUSING

OUTREACH AWARD

Alma Mancillas Fonseca (Texas) Alma Fonseca led the Brazos ValleyHomebuyer Education Coalition inteaching first-time homebuyers how toaccess down payment assistance, assessreadiness to buy a home, get a mort-gage loan, and find a home and thebasic “financial literacy” skills of budg-eting, saving, credit, debt management.

Martha Martin Pile, Dana Abee,Gwen A. Duvall (Tennessee) “Dream Team For Good Neighborhoods”The Dream Team and community part-ners are building good neighborhoods,through the establishment of a HomeBuyers Club. Under-represented peopleand families have a chance at theAmerican Dream of owning their own

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home and will be better able to meetthe obligation, challenges and benefitsof home ownership.


CARE TRAINING AWARD

Jana Osbourn, Amy Chapman,Donna Williams, Kelly Thorp,Rebecca Rogers, Sandra Kunkel,Shea Nebgen (Texas) “Hill Country Professional Child CareProviders Conference”The Hill Country Professional ChildCare Providers Conference whichbegan nearly 20 years ago has sinceevolved into a dynamic, highly antici-pated educational program that reachesover 200 providers annually. In 2003,the conference had an economicimpact of over $2 million through sus-tained employment of the child careproviders.

FOOD SAFETY AWARD

Diana Marie Weise (Texas) “Food Safety Programs in DeWitt County”Diana has reach over 825 food servicepersonnel in the last two years withFood Safety Programs. 100 of theseattended 2-day Food Safety It’s ourBusiness classes and became Certified.She has used creative programs such asfood safety bingo, germ busters andlook alike scenarios.

CLEAN HOMES...HEALTHY

FAMILIES AWARD

Susan Kay Breitling (Texas) “Changing Places”Changing Places was a six weeks coursefor Junior High students. It emphasizedconcepts related to cleaning, storageand their role in healthier lifestyles.Each student completed a project athome and reported it to the group. Stu-dents learned information and dis-played behavioral change reflectingimproved cleaning and storage skills.

Susan K. White-Sayers, Diane M.Mason (Kentucky) “Healthy Centers, Healthy Kids”A two-hour, hands-on indoor air quali-ty issues workshop was held for childcare providers. The participants com-pleted activities to reinforce their learn-ing and to implement in their centerswhen working with students. The mis-sion: teachers educate their students;students educate their families aboutindoor air quality.

4-H EXCELLENCE IN

AFTERSCHOOL

PROGRAMMING AWARD

Kori Renae Myers (Louisiana) “LSU AgCenter/Terrebonne Parish AfterSchool Program”The LSU AgCenter/Terrebonne ParishSchools CYFAR program Motivates,Obligates, Volunteers and Educatesyouth, while developing individualstrength to rise above all odds. MOVEgives at-risk students the ability to

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develop marketable skills, form caringrelationships, strengthen self-esteemand build balanced principals. Theseskills develop physical and mentalhealth.

Sheryl A. Nolen, Lilly Dorney,Michelle Warren, Scott Perry(Texas) “YMCA 4-H Project Day”Texas Cooperative Extension, 4-H andUrban Youth Development partneredwith YMCA to improve AfterCare pro-grams and accessibility of 4-H in Con-roe, Texas. 4-H Project Day offered on-the-job training of staff, programsreached 235 youth and raised the Con-roe YMCA to the highest level of com-pliance within the Greater Houstonarea.

Kathy W. Wright (South Carolina) “SC 4-H Mini-Society”Mini-Society® is an interactive, experi-ence-based instructional system teach-ing entrepreneurship, economics, andcitizenship to youth. Since 1999, SChas trained 188 adult volunteers andreceived $112,000 in funding from theKauffman Foundation. Adult volun-teers have exposed 1507 youth to Mini-Society®. Evaluations from youth andadults indicate a high success rate.


Alma Mancillas Fonseca—1st Place(Texas) Alma Fonseca leads the Brazos ValleyHomebuyer Education Coalition, con-sisting of 12 nonprofits and for profits,experienced housing specialists andrepresentatives from city governments.First-time homebuyer education is pro-vided to historically underserved areasof the Brazos Valley, including very lowto moderate income individuals,minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Christa Lynn Campbell, BettyMiller, Danielle Gordon, DebbiePurvis, Gail Hanula, Jesse Munn, JoShuford-Law, Karen Stribling, KellyCordray, Linda McClellan, MarjorieMoore, Rebecca Moore—2nd Place(Georgia) “Fit Families Newsletter Series”Fit Families newsletters were originallydesigned by Georgia FACS agents,Christa Campbell and Rebecca Mooreto support Fit Families nutrition camp.The multi-state partnership with Flori-da FACS agents made the 18 newsletterseries a reality. Now parents can benefitfrom the nutrition education their chil-dren receive from Extension sponsoredprograms.



Laura F. Stephenson—3rd Place(Kentucky) “Get Fit Clark County Wellness WalkingProgram Newsletters”A twelve-week newsletter series wasdesigned to motivate and educate theparticipants who had committed towalking 100 or 200 miles within theGet Fit Clark County Wellness Walkingprogram time period. The newsletterfeatured articles appropriate to walking,nutrition, participant profiles, and high-lights of the final State Park destina-tion.

RADIO

Susan J. Pickle—1st Place(Arkansas) “Food Safety”This early morning broadcast airsweekly on station KXIO and reaches45,000 listeners in a multi-county areaof Arkansas. The November 2003interview topics featured informationon proper hand washing to reduce thespread of germs and food-borne illnessand information on safe preparation ofturkey for holiday meals.

Pamela Carol York—2nd Place(Kentucky) “Extension Minute Radio Program”Extension Minute is sixty second radiospots recorded monthly and played sixtimes a day on six radio stations onClear Channel’s First Radio. The sixstations have a combined audience of

over 200,000 listeners in south centralKentucky. A variety of timely and rele-vant topics are shared with listeners.

Lisa Cunningham Murphy—3rdPlace (Alabama) “Learning the Power of Patience”An early morning broadcast is airedweekly on WERH Radio Station andreaches 120,000 listeners in a five coun-ty area in Northwest Alabama. Topicsare varied for a general audience andinclude practical tips as well as programannouncements. A program on Learn-ing the Power of Patience was featured.

TELEVISION

Geissler Baker—1st Place (NorthCarolina) “Fun with Milk”FCS agent Geissler Baker taped a seg-ment, called Fun with Milk, for theJune production of The Answer Peo-ple, Extension’s bi-monthly televisionprogram. The program airs on the localcable public access station and is seenby 136,000 viewers. Geissler tapes 3-4segments for the program each year.

Lisa Leslie, Billie Lofland—2ndPlace (Florida) “Lower Summer Cooling Costs”The public service announcement,Lower Summer Cooling Costs, explainsactions that residents can take to lowertheir summer cooling costs. The mes-sage is designed to be concise, yet pro-vide just-in-time practical information.The PSA was played on the county


government television channel duringthe summer of 2003.

Martha M. Yount, Michael T.Martin—3rd Place (Kentucky) “Baking In The Great Outdoors”The Baking in the Great Outdoorsvideo shows fun ways to teach foodpreparation, nutrition, and food safetywhile encouraging families to spendmore active time outdoors. A simplecardboard box becomes an oven forbaking cakes and more. Youth andadults of all ages can prepare therecipes.

WRITTEN NEWS

Johanna S. Hicks—1st Place (Texas) “Advice to Teens: BCCC and Choose YourFriends Wisely”BCCC - Bad company corrupts charac-ter. That’s an acronym that parentsshould instill in their children. Choos-ing friends wisely was the overall themeof a series of newspaper columns tar-geting parents, encouraging them to beavailable to their children, while guidingthem through the tough adolescent andteen years.

Stephanie Toelle—2nd Place(Florida) “Growing Up in a World of Turmoil”Growing Up in a World of Turmoil,published in The First Coast Parent,shares strategies with parents to helptheir children cope with tensions result-ing from the war in Iraq. It addresseshow children may exhibit distress and

gives proactive tips that are develop-mentally appropriate.

Rosie L. Allen—3rd Place(Kentucky) “Speaking About the Unspeakable”Networking with the local faith commu-nity and newspaper editor resulted inthe article Speaking About the Unspeak-able after three violent homicidesoccurred in Gallatin County (population10,000) within 14 months. The intentwas to educate readers including sur-vivors, family and friends, on copingmechanisms relating to violent death.


Jan Bennett—1st Place (Florida) “PowerPay Debt Reduction ComputerProgram”In 2003, 17 PowerPay analyses werecompleted for Collier County families.This educational program of Utah StateUniversity Extension, along with CDinstallation discs, was shared with 42Extension professionals from through-out the State via an Abstract Presenta-tion using overhead transparencies atthe annual Florida Association ofExtension Professionals Conference.

Paula M. Spears—2nd Place(Tennessee) “Kitchen Survival Skills”Kitchen Survival Skills is one lessonfrom It’s A Jungle Out There series,which is an educational program thatinforms and educates limited resource

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clientele on proper food storage of sta-ple foods. Proper storage is essential tomaintain food quality and tips are givenon recommended food storage prac-tices.

Maryellen Garrison—3rd Place(Kentucky) “Arthritis Advice”These overhead transparencies weredeveloped for Extension HomemakerLeader Trainings. The program isdesigned to increase public awarenessof arthritis, to promote early diagnosis,and to minimize preventable pain. Thetransparencies are part of a packagewhich contains a teaching plan, leader’sguide, handout and evaluation tool.


Maryellen Garrison—1st Place(Kentucky) “Arthritis Advice”This entry was developed for Exten-sion Homemaker Leader Trainings. Theprogram is designed to increase publicawareness of arthritis, to promote earlydiagnosis, and to minimize preventablepain. The disc contains a read-me file, aPowerPoint presentation, teaching plan,leader’s guide, handouts, and evaluationtool, all using Microsoft Word/Power-Point.

Glenn Muske, Hong Yu, KristySpalding, Michael Woods, PhillisCothren—2nd Place (Oklahoma) “Visual Merchandising: The SilentSalesperson”Visual merchandising goes far beyondits initial goal of “dressing up thestore.” It is a proven sales tactic thatcan attract customers and increasesales. This program helps the smallbusiness owner understand the basicelements of visual merchandising andhow to use those elements to increaseprofits.

Emily Brady Ryan, MelindaMiller—3rd Place (Georgia) “Who Wants to Be A Survivor?”Who Wants to Be a Survivor is aninteractive program designed to helpmiddle school students learn to makehealthier food choices. Through the useof an entertaining power point presen-tation, fun activities and taste testing,participants learn that surviving meansbeing healthy inside and out.


PACKAGE

Katherine L. Cason—1st Place(South Carolina) “Nutrition Mission – A multimediaeducational tool for youth grades 4 - 6”Nutrition Mission is a unique and excit-ing multimedia educational package for4th through 6th grade students thatincludes a CD-ROM and web site. Itincludes lessons on the food guidepyramid, food labels, nutrient density,

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fast foods, snacking, physical activity,and food science. Nutrition Missionhelps youth make healthy choices.

Laura F. Stephenson, Betty Overly,Cheryl Case, Connie Jones-Woolery,Connie Minch, Janet Tietyen, JimAkers, Kim Adams, Pam Dooley,Rita Smart—2nd Place (Kentucky) “Consumer Beef Quality Assurance”The decrease in tobacco income hasbeen an economic blow to Kentuckyfarmers. In central Kentucky manyfarmers are able to produce beef as analternative. The Consumer Beef Quali-ty Assurance program was designed tohelp consumers understand producer’sbeef management practices, new beefcuts, and ready-to-eat products.

Kenna Renee Knight—3rd Place(Kentucky) “Simply Salads - 5-A-Day”The food guide pyramid recommendsthat we consume five servings of fruitsand vegetables a day. Simply Salads wasa program to introduce salads as mainor side dishes. By incorporating saladsinto your diet, it is an excellent way tohelp increase your consumption offruits and vegetables.


Sondra M. Parmer, BarbaraStruempler—1st Place (Alabama) “Laugh a Little and Make Your TummyHappy Perpetual Calendar”Laugh a Little and Make Your TummyHappy is a timeless 365-day perpetualcalendar. This unique educational publi-

cation makes the reader respond tonutrition and health principals in a pos-itive manner on a daily basis. It is bold-ly colorful, eye-catching, and filled withhumorous nutrition quotes, statements,and jokes.

Stephanie Toelle, Casilda Vargas,Kristi O’Neal, Mark Al-Amad—2ndPlace (Florida) “Kinship Caregiver Guide 2003-04”The Kinship Caregiver Guide 2003-04was created as a resource tool for kin-ship caregivers in Jacksonville, Florida.Developed as a collaborative projectbetween Extension and the local AreaAgency on Aging, over 2,000 copies ofthe guide have been distributed. Onehundred thirty-four agencies aredetailed in the guide.

Glenna Sue Wooten—3rd Place(Kentucky) After several years of decline in homesewing by both adults and youth, therehas been renewed interest in this activi-ty. Interest in sewing designer acces-sories grew across the state. Partici-pants have saved over $125,000 bysewing designer style purses and lug-gage. More than 10 home-based busi-nesses have started.

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Public Relations AwardsMARKETING PACKAGE AWARD

Jo Lynn Jennings, JosephineCostillo, Shirley Chambers, LorriJones (Texas) Jo Lynn Jennings developed and coor-dinated a marketing plan to publicize acollaborative educational programamong seven Houston areaagencies/organizations to sponsor andconduct two programs, Meal SolutionsFor Busy People, to teach families howto prepare quick, nutritious meals athome. A variety of marketing tech-niques was used.

June Annette Puett, DonnaCalhoun, Heather Kyle, Kaye Smith,Tiffany Worley (Tennessee) “Using a Sports Theme to Market FinancialManagement”The Chattanooga Area Tennessee Savescoalition utilized a creative marketing

strategy to promote the TennesseeSaves campaign and encourage partici-pation at the campaign kickoff at aminor league baseball game. Sportsfans and potential savers receivedmoney management messages andtools such as the ballpark retirementestimator at the game.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

AWARD

Lisa D. Jordan, Laurie Cantrell(Georgia) “Chatham Child Care Collaborative”Chatham Child Care Collaborative is apartnership of 12 local agencies; thelargest single source of child care train-ing in Savannah, Georgia; providing185,380 educational contact hours toover 12,053 providers attending 350classes/events; over $59,000 awarded ingrants; in-kind services and 500 volun-teer hours have been valued over$300,000.

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THE YEAR AWARD

Holly Berry (Oregon) Creativity and constant personal andprofessional development are character-istic of Holly’s approach to her Exten-sion career. She continually scans theenvironment on the look out for bettereducational strategies that lead programparticipants towards reaching their fullpotential and contributing to the wellbeing of their families and communi-ties.

FLORENCE HALL AWARD

Linda Wells, Brenda Bishop,Carolynn Wilson, Charolette Collins,Cheryl Maxwell, Connie Moyers,Dr. Ann Vail, Dr. Martha Archuleta,Gayla Weaver, Glenda Belcher,Imelda Garcia, Jennifer Hopper,Karen Halderson, Kari Bachman,Kathryn Ritterbusch, Lynne Beam,Margaret Dines, Marsha Palmer,Mindy Denny, Owida Franz,Patricia Aaron, Raylene McCalman,Roberta Rios, Robin Baker, SandyCassen, Shannon Wooton, ShellyPorter, Starley Anderson, VirginiaAlexander (New Mexico) In New Mexico, an estimated 120,555people have diabetes. Our team

believes education is the key to helpingprevent or control diabetes with regularphysical activity and a balanced nutri-tious diet. The Kitchen Creations cur-riculum was developed to meet theneeds of individuals and families withdiabetes in New Mexico.


Jessica Sanchez-Jackson (Arizona) Age 70, Jessica Sanchez-Jackson ofPhoenix, AZ serves over 150 grand-families as a half-time InstructionalSpecialist. In 2000, she created theGrandparents Raising Grandchildrenprogram from scratch. The programincludes four support groups (one inSpanish), regular phone or home visits,a collaborative grandparent universityand community fair exhibits.



AWARD

Pamela Kutara, Claire Nakatsuka,Lynn C. Nakamura-Tengan,Ronaele Whittington (Hawaii) “MoneyEd, A Distance Education ApproachTo Financial Education”

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MoneyEd is an innovative, web-basedmoney management course for begin-ners. The entire website, including arti-cles and worksheets are purposefullyeasy reading and user friendly. Mon-eyEd had over 2300 hits since its estab-lishment in 2002. Last year, 84 peoplecompleted the course and saved,reduced debt or decreased spending by$11,551.

PROGRAM EXCELLENCE


Mary L. Blackburn, Amy B. Joy,Anna C. Martin, Barbara Turner,Estella A. West, Lucia L. Kaiser,Marilyn S. Townsend (California) “Evaluating EFNEP and FSNEPPrograms with a Food Behavior Checklist”This research designed and validated aFood Behavior Checklist (FBC) as analternate to the 24-hour food recall toevaluate nutrition education impactamong families in the FSNEP andEFNEP programs. The FBC was easyto administer, code, analyze, was validand reliable, culturally neutral, user-friendly, and less time consuming.

ENVIRONMENTAL

EDUCATION AWARD

Elisa Ann Shackelton (Colorado) “Radon Education in NW Colorado”Partnering with the Colorado Depart-ment of Public Health and Environ-ment, Moffat County Cooperative

Extension has delivered radon educa-tion programs aimed at increasing pub-lic awareness related to the health haz-ards of indoor radon. Educational out-reach has been accomplished throughthe use of TV, radio, newspaper, andnumerous public presentations.

Yvonne Jeanne Steinbring(California) A research-based program on post-consumer textiles and clothing at thriftshops and yard sales in Siskiyou Coun-ty. The study prompted development ofproducts from this waste plus a cur-riculum, teaching kit, three slide sets,poster report, research article, displaysto share this information with commu-nity groups, other states and Mexico.

4-H EXCELLENCE IN

AFTERSCHOOL

PROGRAMMING AWARD

Janet Benavente, Amy Star, BenCooley, Enrico Figueroa, JenniferEich, Julia Hurdlebrink, Tom Fey(Colorado) “Success with GOALS”An interdisciplinary team of six Exten-sion Agents and undergraduate internsprovide support for an innovative sub-urban 4-H program. A faith-basedafter-school and summer programprovider, under contract with a schooldistrict, is the host agency. Predomi-nately Hispanic youth, ages five to thir-teen, are flourishing.

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Lee Ann Joy Kendrick—1st Place(Nevada) “4-H Leader News “The 4-H Leader News is a monthlypublication designed for the 4-H lead-ers in Southern Nevada. The newslettercovers pertinent information aboutupcoming events, club accomplish-ments, and educational topics.

Cindy Frederick, Linda Melcher,Twila Ortiz—2nd Place (Wyoming) “Cent$ible Nutrition News”University of Wyoming, CooperativeExtension Service, Cent$ible NutritionNews is a monthly newsletter that pro-vides reliable nutrition information tolow-income households. The newsletteris used to enhance regular nutritioneducation and is distributed to partici-pants and cooperating agencies. Itincludes a feature article plus relatedinformation for seniors and children.

Carolynn Sanchez Wilson—3rdPlace (New Mexico) The Extension Files‘ first article stated,“The Art & Science of Nutrition isgoing through changes as we head intothe 21st Century. This newsletter willgive information on the latest researchin nutrition.” The Extension Files hasexpanded to include information onsubstance abuse prevention, parentingand diabetes information.

RADIO

Phyllis B. Lewis—1st Place(Wyoming) “Radio Food Safety PSA’s”Radio food safety PSA’s are importantreminders to listeners to follow safe,proper food-safety procedures — espe-cially during the holidays when manypeople may be helping in the kitchen.Each PSA was aired 45 times over tworadio stations, reaching an estimated16,000 listeners each airing.


Ellen Schuster, Holly Berry, JaniceSmiley, Molly Engle, Renee Carr,Robert Rost, Sharon Cartwright,Steven Dodrill—1st Place (Oregon) “Helping Teen Parents Feed Their YoungChildren: A multimedia learning module forthose who teach teens”A multimedia-learning module on CD-ROM has proven to be an effective wayto provide critical training for facultyand staff throughout Oregon andreduce cumbersome curriculum note-books. Helping Teen Parents FeedTheir Young Children includes infor-mation on teenage learners, strategiesfor delivering education and contentinformation on three nutrition mes-sages.

Suzanne Pelican, Alice Henneman,Betty Holmes, Christine Pasley,Darlene Christensen, DeborahJohnson, Gail Gordon, Margaret

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Cullen, Mary Kay Wardlaw, VickiHayman—2nd Place (Wyoming) “Small Victories”Small Victories is a mini-lesson seriespromoting positive food, physical activ-ity, and body image attitudes andbehaviors. Small Victories reflects themission and principles of WINWyoming, a multi-agency, multi-statenetwork that promotes healthy lifestylesinstead of a specific body size, shape,or weight.


PACKAGE

Marsha Ann Hawkins, LindaGossett, Marilyn Bischoff—1st Place(Idaho) “Dollar Decision$—A New Approach toTeach Making Ends Meet”Dollar Decision$ is an innovative newcurriculum that features a video,teacher’s guide, PowerPoint slides, par-ticipant activities, and publications. Thecurriculum teaches how to identifyspending leaks, determine needs versuswants, track expenses, set financialgoals, develop a spending and savingplan, and ways to increase income anddecrease expenses.


Marsha Ann Hawkins, MarilynBischoff—1st Place (Idaho) “Making a Spending and Saving Plan”“Making a Spending and Saving Plan”is a University of Idaho publicationthat will help low and moderate incomeindividuals to understand their spend-ing habits. The publication features:financial goal setting, preparing aspending and saving plan with empha-sis on fixed and flexible expenses andthe importance of savings.

Public Relations AwardsCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

AWARD

Mary Ellen Fleming, Cathy Morin,Dolores Lucero, Kathy Jaramillo,Katy Baer, Kyle Gallegos, MissyTaylor Dunnahoo (Colorado) “Healthy Habits Group”The Healthy Habits Group is a collabo-rative partnership of health and educa-tion professionals whose mission is topromote healthy nutrition andincreased physical activity, thus encour-aging healthy lifestyles among the peo-ple of the San Luis Valley. The groupprovides nutrition and physical activityeducation at the local farmers’ market.

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Amy Peterson, Vice President forAwards & Recognition

Assessment & SponsorshipTask Force

Courtney, Elaine (Co-Chair)Gordon, Danielle (Co-Chair)Campbell, ChristaKelly, EdwinaOlson, LindaChandler, CarolClark, LoisGibbons, RosemaryHarris, AlmaMiller, CarolMoore, RebeccaNielson, DianeSteinbring, YvonneWeinreb-Welch, Laurie

Awards Exhibit Task ForceGraves, Priscilla (Chair)Pitcock, BetsyBush, CarlaEvans, AgnesMoore, KelliSeward, DeborahThomas-Davis, AngelaWhittenbarger, TauneePhilipps, Pearl

Ceremony Task ForceAnderson, Lana (Chair)Andy, BrendaDeLoatch, EvelynPihlaja, JoanneBledsoe, PeggyElizer, AmyGossett, LindaHansen, SusanKickertz-Gerbig, SharonLewis, PhyllisMorgan, SusanRogers, BertealStephens, GlinderVidrine, Patricia

Training Task ForcePurvis, Debbie (Chair)Baldwin, Kathy (Chair-elect)Smith, Mandel (Apprentice)Baggarly, JanCosgrove, SusanEhlers, PeggyFaughn, PatriciaHayman, VickiMinch, DarylRoss, MaisielinWiker, Nancy

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