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Community Engagement Nutrition

FoodCorps fosters culture of health in Klamath County schools

FoodCorps is a nonprofit organization that connects kids to real food and helps them grow up healthy by placing motivated leaders in limited-resource communities for a year of public service.

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Community Engagement News

Food safety and security manager joins Family and Community Health faculty

Jared Hibbard-Swanson will develop and implement an integrated vision for Extension’s community food security programming, which is defined as equitable access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food.

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Community Engagement Public Health Students

Thinking globally, acting locally

Global health MPH student set to make lasting change in her community.

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Community Engagement HDFS News Research

Post-2020 wildfires, Santiam Canyon residents burned out by trauma, red tape

Residents are struggling to find housing, wrestling with government bureaucracy and worried about toxins in the water, air and soil, all while burdened by the trauma of losing their homes.

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Community Engagement Features HDFS Kinesiology News Public Health

Nearly $5M grant to establish children’s environmental health research center at Oregon State

The OSU center will be housed in the university’s Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families within the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

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Community Engagement Faculty and Staff Features News

Best of the best: Family and Community Health faculty earn national recognition

Out of 632 awards applications from 38 states, the team took home three national first-place awards and several top recognitions from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences