Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) helps people stay healthy, enjoy life, be active, and reduce health care costs. Many of today's health problems--obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer--can be reduced through good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. FCHS encourages today's busy families and individuals to learn more and make personal choices to improve health. FCHS combines research and practical advice to improve your health for a better tomorrow.

Key Initiative

Get Moving – Get Healthy New Jersey encourages a healthy lifestyle, especially healthy eating and physical activity, through educational programs, a website, publications, and targeted marketing campaigns.

FCHS Outreach Focuses On

• Food, Nutrition, Health, and Wellness
• Food Safety and Food Allergies
• School Wellness
• Workplace Wellness
• Family Wellness

What's Happening in Mercer County?

• Super Storm Sandy Information
• --RESCHEDULED--FREE WEBINAR Mealtime with Get FIT, now March. 11th! (379KB PDF)
• Grow Healthy school-wide wellness program (134KB PDF)
• Supermarket Tours – Get the most nutrition for your money!
• Education & Training for agencies serving the developmentally disabled
• Professional Development
• PTA/PTO Presentations
• Classroom Lessons
• Health Fairs
• Walking Programs
• Family Fun Nights
• Nutrition education for older adults
• Programs for new parents

What's Happening on the State Level in Family and Community Health Sciences?

• Grow Healthy
• Small Steps to Health and Wealth
• Living Well Month

Publications

• Mercer County Visions
• Statewide Visions Newsletter
• Food, Nutrition, and Health Fact Sheets & Bulletins

Partners

• Mercer County Building Healthy Kids Coalition
• Tremendously Trenton Coalition
• Trenton Public Schools
• Isles
• Trenton Crusade Against Cancer
• Shaping NJ State Partnership for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
• NJ Coordinated School Health Demonstration Project
• NJ Farm to School Network
• Mercer County Nutrition Project for the Elderly
• Boys & Girls Club of Trenton and Mercer County
• Allies Inc.
• Mercer County Special Services School District
• New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids - Trenton
• New Jersey Prevention Network Coalition for a Healthy New Jersey

National Affiliations

• eXtension
• National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS)
• Check out NEAFCS' Living Well Cookbook
• American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)

Contact

Michelle Brill, M.P.H., Family and Community Health Science Educator
Telephone: 609-989-6831
Email: brill@njaes.rutgers.edu