Meet your FCH (Family and Community Health) agent! Check out her programs and some useful resources below.

Amanda Molina
Family and Community Health Agent
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
325 Resource Drive | New Braunfels, Texas 78132-3775
Phone: 830-620-3440 | amanda.molina@ag.tamu.edu

Programs in Comal County

• Walk Across Texas – An eight-week program designed to help people of all ages support one another to establish or increase the habit of regular physical activity. Contact our office to form a league of your own.
• Master Wellness Volunteers receive 40 hours of education and training related to health, nutrition, and food safety, among other topics, and serve a 40-hour internship alongside their local County Extension Agent. Once certified, Master Wellness Volunteers provide outreach and education with and through their local County Extension Agent to help Texans better their lives.

The programs below are funded by Better Living for Texans (BLT) which is a grant funded nutrition education program through the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and Texas Health and Human Service Commission (HHSC). The BLT program helps people make healthy meals, improve their physical fitness, save money at the grocery store, grow their own foods, and adopt better food safety habits.

• Healthy Carbohydrates – The Healthy Carbohydrates series is a four-session series intended for audiences wanting to learn more about how to prevent chronic disease (specifically diabetes and obesity) through nutrition practices.
• Walk Across Texas – An eight-week program designed to help people of all ages support one another to establish or increase the habit of regular physical activity.
• Walk N Talk – An eight-week Walk Across Texas program for all ages. Participants meet once a week with the agent to walk and have discussions in one of two topics, 1) Fruits and Vegetables or 2) Rethink Your Drink!

For more information about these programs, please contact Amanda Molina at 830-620-3440 or amanda.molina@ag.tamu.edu.

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Comal County, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Newsletter.

Resources

Foods and Nutrition

Food Safety – We now more about food borne pathogens and food safety each day. Take steps to keep your families food safe!

• Stay up to date on the latest recalls with Food Safety News  http://www.foodsafetynews.com/sections/food-recalls/
• Check out up to date information on food safety and find fun games for your family to play at https://www.foodsafety.gov/index.html

Fast Family Food – We can’t avoid it. We have to have food on the table for our family every day – 3 times a day. Fast food can be loaded with extra fat and sugar, not to mention eating out gets expensive. Find ways to feed your family economically and healthy. And if I am cooking its got to be fast and few ingredients. Here are a few links to get you started!

• Dinner Tonight! – An Extension website with great recipes and video tutorials on each. Sign up and get recipes delivered to your mail box. Or join on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DinnerTonightTx or at http://dinnertonight.tamu.edu/
• What’s Cooking? USDA – Looking for an inexpensive, health recipes? A favorite site is the What’s Cooking site. Recipes can be added to a PDF cookbook you create on the site. Check it out at https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/archive/tag/what%27s-cooking
• Eating on a Budget – This site has tools and information to help you stretch your food dollars http://www.choosemyplate.gov/budget

Canning and Food Preservation – Make sure you are using the latest recommendations. Here are some researched based sites that have safe canning recommendations and recipes!

• National Center for Home Food Preservation – Recipes, web based trainings and more! http://nchfp.uga.edu/
• Ball website – Recipes, canning supplies and great information! http://www.freshpreserving.com/
• Mrs. Wages – Recipes, newsletters, supplies! http://www.mrswages.com/

Child Development

Child Care Providers – Each year Child Care Providers need clock hours (or CEUs) to meet state standards. AgriLife Extension provides a variety of online courses that count as training hours for professional development for child care providers. Courses specifically for CDA Training and CDA Renewal are also available. Please visit https://agrilifelearn.tamu.edu/s/category/browse-by-category/child-care/0ZG4x00000095lOGAQ to view the available courses.