Brief description of training: The wellbeing of early childhood educators is increasingly recognized as being importantly connected to high quality education and care. This program offers strategies for maintaining health, personal well-being, developing healthy self-regulation, and connecting the early childhood workforce to valuable community resources. 

As a result of this training participants will: 

Understanding the Spiritual Dimension of Wellness: Participants will identify and describe the spiritual dimension of wellness and understand how this dimension contributes to the overall well-being of young children and early childhood educators.

Applying Wellness Principles in Early Childhood Settings: Participants will explore practical strategies for promoting wellness in early childhood environments, including creating a supportive atmosphere, fostering emotional intelligence, encouraging physical activity, and integrating mindful practices to support both child and educator well-being. 

Supporting Holistic Development: Participants will learn how to implement activities and routines that address the spiritual dimension of wellness in a way that supports the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of young children, fostering an environment where children can thrive in all aspects of their lives.

Child Development Subject Area:

Maintaining a commitment to professionalism

Nebraska Core Competencies:

Professionalism and Leadership: Professional Work Habits– Level 3

Beef Cow Basics-Plus is a 12 module course that provides cutting edge information on nutrition, forages, supplements, and economics. A short quiz at the end of each lesson for self-assessment assures that concepts are understood.Once all of the quizzes are completed, a certificate of completion can be printed. Modules include: Goals for the Cow/Calf Producer, Basic Considerations for Cow Nutrition, Metabolizable Protein System, Minerals and Vitamins for Beef Cows, Replacement Heifer Nutrition, Basic Ration Formulation, Forage Analysis and Inventory, Perennial Forage Production, Annual Forage Crops, Alfalfa Production: Opportunities for Improvement, Livestock Grazing Management on Range and Pasture, and Feed Ration Economics. It is important that you, as a beef producer, have confidence, competence, and direction to be a successful livestock producer. Beef Cow Basics-Plus will help capitalize on your own unique resources and skills. It provides the basics for anyone interested in beef cow production including high school students, homeschool students, older 4-H and FFA members, community college students, and university students.

This course has been approved for 12 American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) Continuing Education Units (CEU’s). For more information contact Troy Walz, Nebraska Extension Educator, at troy.walz@unl.edu

To purchase and enroll, click the appropriate link below:

• High School Students
• Junior College
• Adult/Producer
  

Listen to representatives from Pleasant River Lumber talk about current upgrades to their facilities and new markets being developed.

0.5 Category 1 ceu; $10

The audience for this course is:

Agricultural Service Providers

Course information:

This is an 8-part webinar series. Each webinar will host a farmer, researcher, or other expert practitioner. The classes will discuss common obstacles to implementing a successful no-till program, address these issues through field proven technical knowledge, and follow a training plan that will best enable the TSP (technical service provider) to support the farmers in the no-till practice transition. This course is open to any type of service provider working with farmers in the north east! Topics include: an introduction to no-till; fertility & manure management; herbicide & pest management; soil & water management; economics of no-till & record keeping; equipment and no-till application tools; precision agriculture for no-till; and a conclusion on adapting to a new management style. Upon course completion participants will receive a No-Till Intensive Training Certificate of Completion, as well as be eligible for 8 CCA credits and 1 Pesticide credit.

For more information please contact:

Heather Darby, heather.darby@uvm.edu and Catherine Davidson, catherine.davidson@uvm.edu

The training is designed for commercial or public applicators and dealers who are new to pesticide certification in North Dakota. It will cover basic pesticide safety and handling practices, as well as relevant laws and regulations as they pertain to the distribution and use of pesticides. This training is not class specific. It will emphasize practices and procedures that should be useful to all applicators or dealers, whether they are seeking certification in the Agricultural Pest Control class, Wood Preservation class or any of the 10 other use classes found in North Dakota. The training also will describe the certification process and how to prepare and take exams to obtain a pesticide certificate.

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For more information contact Andrew A Thostenson, North Dakota State University Extension, andrew.thostenson@ndsu.edu

For technical assistance please contact campushelp@extension.org

Each EFNEP module includes tips to help you:  

* Eat healthy foods on a limited budget;  
* Plan meals and snacks and shop for food;  
* Keep foods safe to eat;   
* Include more physical activity in your everyday life; and,  
* Explore money saving tips to stretch your food dollars. 

In this module, you will get a preview of the nine EFNEP modules, learn knife skills important for cooking, view the preparation of a delicious recipe, participate in physical activity, and explore ways to stretch food dollars!  

EFNEP is a community nutrition education program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.   

Intended for secondary educators and their students, this curriculum will provide agricultural background knowledge and facilitate experimental design, data collection, and analysis of results through the use of a new online web-based and mobile-optimized tool, AgConnect. AgConnect follows the scientific method from hypothesis to conclusion and includes prompts to design an experiment, a notebook to record data collection and observations, data analysis tools, results display pages, and the option to download entries to share data in presentations, posters, and reports.

The complementary AgConnect curriculum includes guiding questions so students can engage in peer-to-peer learning and sharing about: 1) the relationships between environmental conditions, suitable crops, economic impacts, and cultural connections; 2) relevant agricultural issues, questions, and potential solutions unique to each region; and 3) comparison of experimental processes, challenges, 'a-ha' moments, and results. 

This online course is the first half of the core water quality stewardship short course. 

To successfully complete the core water quality stewardship short course, one individual involved in the day-to-day management decisions of the dairy must complete the entire course - both Parts 1 and 2.

The course covers how to develop emergency action plans, powerline and fireline safety, defensible space, fire control, the 10 firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, and fire behavior.  This course is designed to meet  training required by Oregon OSHA for employees and employers who may engage in suppressing wildfires on their operation. The course also covers what the new OSHA requirements are and tries to add clarity to what producers need to do. Even if you do not have employees this course covers good material for living and working in rural eastern Oregon. In addition, the goal is to go over best management practices to keep your operation and employees safe and informed. A course certificate is available at the end of this course after completing a brief exam and the course evaluation. 

For information or to enroll contact Kathy Schindler at kschindler1@unl.edu or 402-472-1730

This course is for those who need continuing education units (CEUs) and a certificate. Make the purchase and after the payment you will be redirected to the course. Upon course completion you will be able to download the course certificate.