The Family and Consumer Science Program in Person County focuses on building strong, healthy families. Programs are also offered to help families foster resilience while faced with transition and promote safe and healthy environments.

The primary focus area for our program is to build healthy families by helping families improve the quality of their lives through eating healthy, being active, handling food safely, managing resources for food security and practicing health promoting behaviors.

Specific programs offered towards accomplishing this objective include:

Color Me Healthy
Give Your Heart a Healthy Beat!
In Home Breast Feeding Support Program
Partners in Wellness
Sybershop
Aging with Gusto!

Community presentations are available for church and civic groups on related topics such as Women Living Healthy, Women Living Well, Dietary Guidelines, the Food Guide Pyramid and Food Safety Topics.

In addition to articles in the Person County Cooperative Extension newsletter, two other newsletters are distributed to interested families through the FCS department. “Growing Together”, a newsletter designed to strengthen parenting skills is distributed monthly to parents of preschoolers through direct mail and the local Child Care Resource and Referral Agency to home day cares and Child Care Centers . “Money Talks”, a newsletter devoted to consumer and basic financial management principles is distributed through direct mail and area worksites.

Other programs related to family and personal well being are promoted through the FCS Department and based on community needs.

Bess Hester-Whitt, Extension Agent
Family and Consumer Sciences
304 S. Morgan St. Room 123
Roxboro, NC 27573 (336) 599-1195
bess_whitt@ncsu.edu