Santa Cruz

Helping families in Santa Cruz County prepare their children for Kindergarten.

National initiative to reduce the development of type 2 diabetes.

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

Giving youth that extra edge for life success by offering numerous opportunities to develop leadership, responsibility, citizenship and other life skills.

Designed to teach young people to become responsible, respectful and resourceful members of their communities. The program teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults. Sharing new techniques to teach self-confidence, how positive reinforcement leads to success and much more.

Providing participants with the tools to help reduce financial stress, increase savings, improve credit, and take control of their personal finances.

Influencing healthy eating and active living in a positive way that promotes health and reduces disease among all people living in Arizona

Range livestock production is a significant part of the economic base of Southeastern Arizona. Education focuses on herd health and welfare, nutrition, reproduction, marketing, breeding and genetics, meat quality assurance, niche marketing, and rangeland health with the overall goal of improved profitability and long term sustainability. Programs focus on Beef Cattle production, primarily with Cow-Calf producers, with a small amount of work in other livestock species such as equine, small ruminant, and backyard poultry.

Focusing on local tree nuts, fruit trees, grapevines and other specialty crop producers in Cochise County. From resources to research, intensely cultivated crops require much attention to grow the optimum fruits and nuts, grapes or vegetables. This program was established to assist operations growing these crops in the arid desert southwest, to help mitigate economic or production issues, to help sustain farms and to help protect their investment.

Delivering science-based information to backyard poultry owners in Southeastern Arizona