UGA Extension helps families thrive with information for professionals and adults on fostering healthy couple relationships, positive parent-child relationships and the care of aging adults.
Our Programs and Services
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ELEVATE Couples Education Curricula An 8-hour couples education program including mindfulness practice activities.
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Healthy Relationship Education Training One day training providing information and tools to teach relationship skills.
Popular Publications
- Time Management: 10 Strategies for Better Time Management (C 1042) Learn 10 strategies for better time management, including knowing how to spend your time, setting priorities, using planning tools, getting organized, scheduling, delegating, and avoiding procrastinat…
- Building Baby's Brain Series: The Role of Music (C 1053-06) Children who grow up listening to music develop strong music-related connections in the brain. Some of these music pathways actually affect the way we think. Listening to classical music seems to impr…
- Building Baby's Brain Series: Prime Times for Learning (C 1053-02) Research in brain development shows there are certain windows of opportunity, known as sensitive periods, when certain parts of the brain develop most quickly. These windows are prime times for learni…
- Building Baby's Brain Series: What Parents Can Do (C 1053-03) All parents want their children to be smart and successful. Researchers have found that a child's brain continues to develop long after birth. Parents can do many things to support their child's healt…
Websites
UGA-affiliated sites
Adult and Family Development Family and Consumer Sciences' Extension information related to parenting, caregiving, marriage, and seniors.
UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences Learn more about the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia.
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Victory House
Members of the Headwaters Chapter of UGA Master Gardener Extension Volunteers help refurbish greenhouse and garden plots at recovery center.
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The Basic FACS
UGA Cooperative Extension agents launch podcast with useful tips, lessons on Family and Consumer Sciences topics.
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NCFR Fellow
Family life specialist earns major honor from National Council on Family Relations.