Health and Family Well-Being

Locate Your County Extension Office

• Extension Family & Consumer Sciences

• Southwest Border Food Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center
  Fosters, promotes, and implements an Emergency Management program that protects New Mexico citizens and communities from the effects of emergencies and disasters.

Food and Nutrition

• Ideas for Cooking and Nutrition (ICAN)
  ICAN is a free, fun, hands-on nutrition education program.

• Don't Wash Your Chicken
  Although raw chicken and turkey can carry bacteria on their surfaces, research has shown that washing raw poultry under running water in your kitchen sink is a bad idea.

• Nutrition Decision
  An online nutrition game.

Health

• Because I Care, I Wash My Hands
  A 5-day visual and musical curriculum teaching hand washing in child care centers

• West Nile Virus information

Family & Community

• New Mexico CYFAR - Children, Youth and Families at Risk
  Programs for children and families at risk

• Family Resource Center
  Family centered facility which welcomes all NMSU and DACC student families.

Publications

FREE! Cooperative Extension Service publications.

Videos

• Health & Family Well-being playlist

• Vaccinate with Confidence playlist

• Starting the Conversation: Stress and Mental Health in NM Ag Communities playlist

Featured Videos

• Memorial Gifts
• Gratitude Gifting
• Engaging Gifts for Kids
• Christmas Encouragement

• Types of Skin Cancer
• Risk Factors & Self Exams
• Understanding Sun Exposure
• Minimizing Sun Exposure

• Taking Out the Trash
• Dog Talks Back
• The Price of Avocados