Curriculum /Program Priority Area
Agriculture
GOAL: To promote a vital agriculture in Vermont through the provision of information and educational programs for diverse audiences.
Objectives:
- Teach leadership and management skills and the use of effective tools for comprehensive decision making to enhance profitability.
- Teach production and marketing practices that minimize detrimental impacts and promote the wise use of natural resources upon which agriculture depends.
- Demonstrate and communicate to the people of Vermont the values of agriculture and its interdependence with communities.
- Encourage future generations to value and become engaged in agriculture.
Family and Community Resources and Economic Development
GOAL: To empower people and communities, through research-based information and education, to address the economic and social challenges facing our youth, families, and communities. Increasing the capacity of communities, families and individuals to improve their own quality of life and building the capacity to pursue economic development.
Objectives:
- Civic Capacity: Build the civic capacity of local officials, citizens, community volunteers and youth by providing strategies & tools to effectively engage people in public work through a variety of programs.
- Family Life Education: Improve the family environment by offering education programs to parents, teachers, train-the-trainer volunteers and community leaders to help families deal with communication issues, child rearing concepts, financial management, and time management.
- Community and Economic Development: Create healthy communities by improving the ability of individuals, families and community leaders to make and implement effective social, environmental, and economic decisions.
Nutrition, Food Safety and Health
GOAL: Vermonters will adopt nutrition and related lifestyle practices that promote health.
Objectives:
- Educate Vermont adults and youth to use the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid to choose a healthful diet.
- Educate Vermonters to adopt dietary practices recommended for specific life cycle stages.
GOAL: Every child and adult will have continuous access to a safe, affordable, adequate and acceptable food supply.
Objectives:
- Increase consumer and producer awareness, understanding and information on food accessibility and affordability.
- Increase consumer and producer awareness, understanding and information regarding food safety and food borne risks and illnesses.
Natural Resources and Environmental Management
GOAL: Sustain and enhance the quality of Vermont’s natural resources through citizens understanding the effects for local decisions on both local and global ecological and economic systems.
Objectives:
- Ecosystem Management/Forest Products