UGA Cooperative Extension

Walker County Cooperative Extension Office:
Family & Consumer Sciences

Walk Georgia

Walk Georgia. Move more. Live more.
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension invites you to spend eight weeks increasing your physical activity level in a fun, community-oriented way. Registration for this free program is open February 18 - March 10. To learn more, please visit www.walkgeorgia.org.

Natural Gas Energy Education

Programs offered by Kristen Smith. kcsmith@uga.edu

• Natural Gas Education for Georgia Consumers
• Saving Energy at Work
• Your Manufactured Home
• What Renters Can Do
• Saving Energy in your Older Home
• Buying an Energy-Efficient Home
• Choosing a New Water Heater
• Manintaining your Heating and Cooling Systems
• Home Buyer Education
• Improving you Environment
• Maintaining your Iinvestment
• Chilly Days Ahead: Preparing for Fall and Winter
• Managing Mold and many other Presentations and Programs

 

Children, Youth, and Families

Provides parents and caregivers positive guidance and nurturance for children, promotes positive development with all ages and encourages informed consumer decisions.

Foods and Nutrition

Helps consumers understand the relationships between food and health, promote informed nutrition decisions and regular physical activity, etc.

Consumer Economics

Information on how consumers can best budget their resources, the most efficient way to save for retirement, and how to manage through a dinancial crisis.

Housing and Enivornment

Teach how to reduce exposure to environmental contaminants in the home, enable consumers to acquire and maintain affordable housing, and the most efficient ways to manage househld demand on natural resources.

 

Family and Consumer Science Publications

For more information, please contact us at (706) 638-2548.