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Affairs & New Nontraditional Programs |
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As Alabama's
population becomes more urban, outreach services must shift to
meet changing needs. This unit provides educational programs
to help the state's urban and nontraditional audiences adapt
to changing environments and needs. |
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Community Partnership Assessment
(doc)
MOU Template (docx)
Administrative Services AAMU
The Office of Grants Management
is the central office for all aspects of grant proposal processing,
proposal review, and administrative management of grants and
contracts throughout the life of the grant.
Alabama Ethnic Food Security Network (AEFSN)
Alabama Ethnic Food Security Network's mission is to provide farmers, marketers, and ethnic consumers information about sustainable production and marketing strategies of culturally-appropriate meats and vegetables, food safety, healthy eating habits, and nutrition. The AEFSN will make its information available through a series of workshops, conferences, publications, videos, and the Internet. Moreover, through applied research, training programs, and technical assistance services, the AEFSN will work to increase the number of Alabama residents, particularly its ethnic groups having access to nutritious, safe, locally grown, and culturally-appropriate meats and vegetables.
Communications & Marketing
E-Waste Institute
Established July 23, 2008 by
a Consortium of Alabama A&M University, the Urban Affairs
& New Nontraditional Programs unit of the Alabama Cooperative
Extension System, and King Electronic Processing in Huntsville,
Alabama.
Press Release
Faith-Based Gardens
Gardens have been recognized
by many cultures, groups, and religions for their functionality
and overwhelming benefits. They serve as therapeutic jewels to
provide social, emotional, environmental, and cultural outcomes.
Besides personal benefits, one of these outcomes may include
revived community pride and community asset development that
results in increased tourism!
UNP-72 A
Resource Manual for Faith-Based Gardens Order Form [Word document]
FYI--Forefronting
Youth Initiative
This initiative focuses on
building and engaging the service learning and prevention skills
of young people who dwell in Alabama's metropolitan areas to
promote positive citizenship and community development.
Parental
Consent Forms [MS Word document]
Health Rocks
Health Rocks is a healthy life program based on decision-making
and appropriate health knowledge with its beginning-level curriculum
targeted at youth ages 8 to 12, and intermediate level targeted
at youth ages 12 to 14. The experiential education program is
facilitated by teen/adult leadership teams to help youth learn
key health messages and skills such as critical thinking, how
to manage stress and peer pressure, how to communicate effectively,
and how to analyze media messages. Special emphasis is placed
on tobacco use prevention.
PYLI
The Points of Light Foundation
engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping
to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
Through the Points of Lights Institute training and a variety
of other programs, the Foundation encourages people from all
walks of life - corporations, faith-based organizations, low-income
communities, families, youth, and older adults - to volunteer.
Programación
en Español
A Spanish-only website devoted
to serving Hispanics in the U.S. The site contains:
- Links to more than 4,000
research-based publications in Spanish!
- A link to an English-friendly
version of the site [English titles of the Spanish text publications].
- A PowerPoint presentation
in English on demographics of Hispanics in the United States.
- Links to information on Spanish-speaking
countries in Central & South America, and the Caribbean [in
Spanish].
- Links to Spanish-speaking
countries' Embassies/Consulates and United Nations official web
sites where available [in Spanish].
Promoting Readiness for Employment Possibilities (PREP)
PREP is designed to unemployed and underemployed individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve employment success.
Rainwater Collection & Water Conservation
Harvested rainwater can be used for domestic purposes and irrigation and is usually collected from rooftops, greenhouses, pool covers and other relatively clean surfaces. This stored water can be used for irrigation, flushing toilets, or washing cars; however, it is not potable and requires extensive treatment for use as tap water.
Resource
Management
HELP to achieve your goals.
Shiitake Mushrooms
Increase productivity of shiitake
mushrooms--evaluate shiitake strains, wood species, substrates,
soak tanks and substrate additives, and timing variables.
Shiitake
Mushrooms & Rainwater Collection: Renewable Resources Extension
Act (RREA)
Innovative
Vegetable Production Strategies Farm Day Program (May 13, 2010)
[.doc]
Service-Learning Network
The Service-Learning Network
is an integrated network that encompasses all university units
and/or schools and is designed to meet the changing needs (educational,
emotional, social, and intellectual) of the community with a
commitment of serving underserved and hard-to-reach populations.
STAR
Saving Towns Thru Asset Revitalization
(STAR) is a statewide asset-based community development initiative
designed to provide urban greenspace activities, projects, and
experiences that impact human potential, family development,
and community capacity-building.
Urban Environmental Science Education
Program (UESEP)
The Urban Environmental Science
Education Program (UESEP) was created under the auspices of the
Urban Affairs and New Nontraditional Programs unit of the Alabama
Cooperative Extension System at Alabama A&M University to
enhance environmental awareness through outreach, education and
research. UESEP seeks to implement its mission using an integrated
approach across multiple disciplines.
Urban Family Network
Providing training and educational
resources to strengthen coping and survival skills of individuals
and families in urban communities.
Activities Log [pdf]
UEFNEP (Urban Expanded Food and Nutrition
Education Program)
UEFNEP funds allocated to AAMU
provide classes for Alabamians with limited resources to empower
people to make better nutrition choices and health decisions.
UEFNEP serves limited-resource Hispanic Mothers of young children
and youth incommunities located in Marshall, Morgan, Limestone,
and Madison Counties of Alabama.
UNEP (Urban Nutrition Education Program)
A USDA Food Stamp nutrition
education program that serves limited resource audiences, both
adult and youth, in Alabama's nine metropolitan areas.
Work
Force Preparation
To deliver multiphased training
and programs for education and training of the hard to reach
audiences in Alabama in the areas of CRD and Workforce and Economic
Development over a four-year period that includes: WECAN4U,
Welcome To The Real World, Work Force Preparation, & Job
Hunting Kit.
2008 Youth Career Summit
Program (pdf)
Disaster Preparedness Resource Fair
November 12, 2011
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Alabama A&M University's Agribition Center
4925 Moores Mill Road, Huntsville, AL
Press Release | Flyer
Sorry You Missed the...
 10th Annual Successful Aging Initiative
Thursday, October 14, 2011
7:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
315 Winchester Road, Huntsville, AL
Brochure | Cruise Drawing | Registration Form
This one-day conference is designed to address the needs and concerns of older adults. Presenters will give easy-to-understand information and resources designed to help older adults make informed decisions, to maintain independence, to play active roles in society, and to improve the quality of life for themselves and their families.
Older adults and family members, caregivers, social workers, ministers, church administrators, and others who regularly handle aging issues should plan to attend.
Sorry You
Missed 4th Annual Small Ruminant Conference & Field Day
September 24, 2011
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tennessee State University Meat Goat Research Facility
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
Program | Brochure
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Tennessee State University School of Agriculture are partnering to present the 4th Annual Small Ruminants Conference and the Annual Field Day. Admission is free. These events are the first research farm activities since Nashville was flooded in 2010, and will focus on hair sheep and meat goat production systems, including health, nutrition, genetics, growth and carcasses characteristics, marketing, biosecurity and biocontainment of diseases transmitted from sheep and goats to humans and other species, and information about federal and state funding opportunities.
Guest speakers will include Dr. Joan Burke, United States Department of Agriculture; Mr. Dave Garcia, United States Department of Agriculture; Dr. Raimundo Lobo, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation; Dr. Richard Browning, Jr., Tennessee State University; and Dr. Maria Leite-Browning, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Alabama A&M University. The afternoon session will feature hands-on demonstrations and an update on breed research.
These events are open to producers, marketing coordinators, dealers, graders, 4-H leaders, county judges, students, veterinarians, and Extension staff that are interested in learning more about hair sheep and meat goat production systems. All participants are asked to pre-register for lunch. For additional conference information, please contact Dr. Maria Leite-Browning at 256-372-4954 or Dr. Richard Browning, Jr. 615-963-5837.
Sorry You
Missed the 2011
Farm Tours
North Carolina A&T
University Farm
Massey Creek Farms
Holly Grove Farms, Inc.
May 20-23, 2011
Alabama Cooperative Extension
System, Alabama A&M
& Auburn Universities
Tennessee State University, School of Agriculture &
Consumer Sciences Brochure
[.pdf] Brochure
en Español
[.pdf]
The Farm Tours are designed
to educate limited-resource farmers about sustainable small ruminant
management practices. Participants will have a change to visit
farms in Tennessee and North Carolina to gain knowledge about
running cost-effective sheep, meat and dairy goats, beef, and
poultry and egg production systems on small farms.
Registration Fee: $20 per person,
$30 per couple. Scholarships are available for minority farmers.
Bus tours, hotel accommodations, and most meals will be provided
on a first-come, first-serve basis. You must register by April 15, 2011.
 Sorry You Missed the
Green
Living Expo 2011
Featuring Urban
Gardans
Thursday, April 21, 2011
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Alabama A&M University's
Louis Crews Football Stadium, 4200 North Memorial Parkway
Huntsville, Alabama Brochure/Exhibitor/Sponsor Form [.pdf]
Press
Release [.pdf] EXPO
Exhibitor List [.pdf]
EXPO
Program [.pdf]
This year's Green Living Expo
is your opportunity to talk to local environmental experts or
to pick up valuable information on how to be an eco-friendly
consumer.
 Participates
will also enjoy a free lunch, door prizes, and entertainment,
as well as participate in live gardening demonstrations such
as a demonstration by topiary horticulturist Pearl
Fryar. Topiary is a horticulture practice of clipping trees
and shrubbery into various shapes or "living forms of sculpture."
If you are still puzzled, then perhaps you remember the movie
"Edward Scissorhands" starring Johnny Depp?
 Fryar
began sculpting his garden in the 1980s and soon garnered national
attention, which included a 2006 documentary titled A Man
Named Pearl. Today, visitors come from around the world to
meet Fryar and to see his incredible garden.
In addition to live garden
demonstrations, exhibitors will have a chance to showcase their
green-living programs, products, and services.
This event is free and the
public is encouraged to bring paper and plastic items such as
magazines, newspapers, cardboard, phonebooks, loose-leaf papers,
soda bottles, and milk jugs to recycle!
Sponsorship packages are available
from $50 to $100 and will appear in the 2011 Expo AD Book.
Expo Exhibitors and Sponsors are asked to pre-register. Every
sponsor will receive a complimentary booth upon request.
Exhibitors will be show-casing
their products and services. Persons wishing to pre-register
and anyone needing further information should download the Brochure/Exhibitor/Sponsor
Form [.pdf] or contact Roger Richardson at (256) 372-4966,
Garner at (256) 372-8331, or Robert Spencer, at (256) 766-6223.
Raised Bed Garden photo courtesy
Bruce Dupree, Alabama Cooperative Extension System; Pearl Fryar
photo courtesy Jean Grosser, topiary photo courtesy Bill Noble
Garden.
 Sorry you missed the
5th
Annual Small Ruminant Spring Symposium
Saturday, March 12, 2011
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
[Registration begins at
8:30 a.m.]
Alabama A&M University's Winfred Thomas Agriculture Research
Station
372 Walker Lane, Hazel Green, AL Program
[.pdf], Press
Release [.pdf], Flyer [.pdf] STRATEGIC PLANNING
for SUSTAINABILITY
Symposium Fee is $10 per person, fee includes lunch. Pre-registration
is requested.
For pre-registration please contact 256-582-2009 or email wheeled@aces.edu |