March 2010 Issue

Other News & Articles

Cost Savings by the Board for JCEP / NEAFCS Leadership Meeting

Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross (IN), NEAFCS President
Throughout the past year the Board has been working very hard at making the most of your dues. Please read the following regarding your dues and how we made the most of the available budget and saved money.

Raising Your Entrepreneurial Spirit: (One of Two Choices for Annual Session Pre-conference Workshops)

Louise O. Kirkland (ME), Co-Liaison for Annual Session, 2010
One of the exciting pre-conference workshops being offered in Portland, Maine on September 20th is "Raising Your Entrepreneurial Spirit." Reflecting on one of the goals of our Annual Session, "Experience Maine's unique entrepreneurial spirit, resources and history", Michelle Neujahr of Organizational Renovation Company, three Extension Professors from Maine and Vermont and three home-based business owners share what this spirit is about.

Baking with the Home Baking Association: (One of Two Choices for Annual Session Pre-conference Workshops)

Rhea Bentley (GA), Vice President for Professional Development
Communicating the many benefits of building your Do It Yourself (DIY) baking and food skills is not a tough sell in 2010. Increasingly, people "get" why DIY food skills are valuable to healthy lifestyles, relationships, personal economics and the environment. But that doesn't mean they instantly know how to prepare food at home.

**2013 Galaxy IV Conference Leadership Opportunities**

Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross (IN), NEAFCS President
The Board of the Joint Council of Extension Professionals is seeking applicants for the position of Galaxy IV Conference Chair and Vice Chair. Applications are due by May 21, 2010.

Living Well, More Than A Cookbook Update

Debra Cotterill (KY) and Judy Hetterman (KY), Co-Chairs
Affiliate representatives received marketing and programming information at the JCEP Leadership Training meeting and via a recorded web conference, now available online. Affiliates and individual members are reporting successes from magazine articles, newspaper stories, and counter top displays.

Help Sponsor an Award!

Carol Chandler (OH), Vice President for Awards & Recognition
The Awards and Recognition Sponsorship and Support subcommittee is always looking for suggestions for new awards sponsors. I also encourage members to think creatively about how they might get involved in helping sponsor an award.

Professional Development: So Many Choices, So Little Time & Money

Joanne Kinsey (NJ), NEAFCS Professional Development Subcommittee Member
It is always a good strategy to keep current by attending appropriate national conferences. The collective energy at professional development conferences, such as NEAFCS' Annual Session, can help you to maintain knowledge, pick up on new trends and practices, and to refresh professional friendships.

Meet Your Board Member

Debby Mathews (AL), Southern Region Director
Hello from Alabama and the "deep south" where we have had an unusually cold and annoying winter. I'm glad to report that multiple signs of spring arriving have lifted our spirits this week.

President's Message

Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross (IN), 2009-2010 NEAFCS President Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross

Dear Members,

Spring is definitely in the air in Northern Indiana. For the last several days we have had sunshine, blue skies, and warmer temperatures and I am hearing many spring sounds. One of the most interesting spring happenings is the pair of bluebirds that have been trying to move into our home. Our neighbors have been feeding them year round and it has been a joy to watch the brilliant blue against the white snow. If you are wondering, yes, we are now feeding dried meal worms to blue birds too. This is one way I invest in myself to enjoy what nature offers each season, every day!

We are all living in fast-paced times and working with many changes that present both opportunities and challenges in our personal and professional lives. I encourage you to be proactive by being a leader who challenges people to live in the present and look to the future. You must relay to your clients that the impact of the Family and Consumer Sciences work you do affects lives on a daily basis as well as long term. I would appreciate receiving by e-mail, samples of your elevator speech and what you use to tell your Family and Consumer Sciences story.

Okay members, I was disappointed that not one of you looked in our Living Well, More Than a Cookbook for a recipe with cherries in it. I did have a prize for someone, so I am sending another challenge. Let's see, March is a month for spring recipes. I learned many life lessons raising a flock of sheep, so the first one of you who emails me that there either are or are not lamb recipes in the book will receive a prize.

NEAFCS is also preparing impact statements that will help promote our profession and our Association to our stakeholders and partners. We are gathering information from all the Affiliates to write these impact statements that will be shared at the PILD Conference in April and also at the Federal level. I encourage you to learn more about the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The following topics come from the NIFA program areas:

Global Food Security and Hunger
Food Safety
Childhood Obesity
Climate Change
Sustainable Energy

Now is also the time where I remind you about your personal financial investment in your self, of planning and saving money for your attendance at our 2010 Annual Session in Portland, Maine. The Board and the Annual Session Host committee are hard at work designing very special educational opportunities including a Welcome/Friendship experience on the beautiful Atlantic waters off the Maine coastline.

Thank You's to you, our members . . .

To you who came to the JCEP Leadership Training meeting
To you who could not come to the JCEP Leadership Training meeting, but participated in the Adobe Connect or viewed it online later
To you who are coming to the PILD Conference
To those of you who have applied to present a concurrent or poster session
To you who have applied for Awards
To you who completed the 2010 Member Survey!
To you who are selling our Living Well, More Than a Cookbook
To you in leadership positions in your Affiliate and on the National level
To you who read your eNEAFCS every month, and use your information-rich website
To you have who have assisted officers when we have asked for help and information
To you who have sent encouraging and positive emails to the Board members and to me

I hope you will watch for and participate in the following:

Adobe Connects for marketing the Living Well, More Than A Cookbook
Adobe Connect for Committee and Subcommittee Chairs March 23 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern
2010 Member Survey, results and analysis

Please continue to Invest in yourself, live each day to the fullest, have fun, laugh, and remember — if you don't take care of yourself, no one else will. And remember this quote from Henry James, both when dealing with others and dealing with yourself: "Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

I do hope to see you in Maine!

Until next month,

Mary Ann

Dates	Event
3/1/2010 - 3/31/2010	Living Well Month 2010 More Information
3/23/2010 - 3/26/2010	2010 Food Safety Education Conference NEAFCS is a sponsor of the 2010 Food Safety Education Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme is Advancements in Food Safety Education: Trends, Tools and Technologies. Read More . . .
4/20/2010 - 4/22/2010	Priester National Extension Health Conference — Mobile, Alabama The 2010 Priester National Extension Health Conference theme, Healthy People, Healthy Communities: Reducing Health Disparities celebrates Cooperative Extension’s long history of involvement in promoting health and preventing disease across the life span. This conference offers Extension professionals and their community partners an opportunity to share health-related educational programs and resources, applied research, and collaborative strategies to meet the diverse needs of people in communities across the nation. More Information
4/21/2010 - 4/22/2010	Leadership for Tomorrow: Strategies for Resurgence Conference The Ohio State University Extension's Leadership for Tomorrow Conference features outstanding speakers who will address today's leadership challenges including time, energy, capacity, and perspective. Attendees will learn innovative ways to handle today's challenges with focus, resilience, and sensitivity. In tough economic times, true leadership is developed and essential to the survival of all organizations. Resurgence has been defined as "a rising again into life, activity or prominence." General sessions will focus on leadership skills and strategies needed when the economy rebounds and recovers, emphasizing personal examples and thought processes about how to reinvent, re-create, and re-energize oneself, one's business, and one's employees. Early registration ends March 31. The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel in Columbus, Ohio. The conference schedule, more specific session information, and registration details are available at www.leadershipfortomorrow.osu.edu.
4/26/2010 - 4/28/2010	Public Issues and Leadership Development Conference (PILD) — Arlington, Virginia Sponsored by the Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP), the annual PILD Conference is a premiere opportunity for professional development. The conference provides a close up look at the issues that impact Extension and the communities we serve. It also provides Extension professionals and volunteers the unique opportunity to interact with decision-makers in Congress, with our federal agency partners, and with others "inside the Beltway" who support our work. Click here for more information.
5/4/2010 - 5/7/2010	CYFAR Conference The 2010 CYFAR Conference will be May 5-7 at the San Francisco Marriott Downtown. It will feature keynote speakers, current youth and family research presenters, interactive workshops and computer labs, as well as a Program Showcase demonstrating the most successful CYFAR community programs. Plans are underway for a playground build in San Francisco in addition to in-depth pre-conference sessions on May 4. For hotel rates, registration, and conference information, go to http://cyfar2010.unl.edu/.
5/25/2010 - 5/27/2010	Navigating Difference . . . Cultural Competency Training for Extension Professionals The Washington State University Extension (WSUE) "Navigating Difference . . . Cultural Competency Training for Extension Professionals" is designed to assist extension professionals expand their skills in working with diverse audiences. The overarching goals for the training are to assist participants to: become more aware of their own personal and organizational cultures; examine how our personal and organizational cultures affect our ability to work across difference, in both negative and positive ways; and build skills to increase competencies as we work with others who are different from us. More Information
6/24/2010 - 6/26/2010	AAFCS 101st Annual Conference — Cleveland, Ohio With challenges such as the high rate of childhood obesity and home foreclosures, family and consumer sciences (FCS) and allied professionals need to provide research and strategies to help individuals, families, and communities with these complex social and economic issues. Join us at this year's conference — New Century for FCS: New Challenges, New Solutions. More Information
6/27/2010 - 6/30/2010	7th Bienniel ANREP National Conference — University of Alaska, Fairbanks The 7th Biennial ANREP (Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals) National Conference offers a forum for sharing methods, tools, and programming to help us address the challenges of providing research-based community outreach in a changing environment. The conference will emphasize creating effective multistate and multi-agency collaborations, and the theme is Opportunities for Extension in a Changing Environment: Lessons from the Last Frontier. Click here for more information.
9/20/2010 - 9/24/2010	2010 Annual Session & Exhibits — Portland, Maine More Information

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