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The ECOP Budget and Legislative and Program Committees, along with many experts in Extension, have worked hard to develop the ECOP Advocacy and Education Toolkit advocacy.extension.org. The purpose of the toolkit is to provide ECOP leadership and the Cooperative Extension System (CES) with consistent messaging and resources focused on CES advocacy and education priorities. These resources include priority language, talking points, CES background information, and examples of national program efforts for consistency in messaging with APLU Board on Agriculture Assembly (BAA) Committees and Sections, the BAA Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy ESCOP, legislators, partners, University Congressional and Government Affairs staff, and related advocacy groups. Additionally, the SNAP-Ed Program Development Team (PDT) has developed the Nourishing Communities: Nutrition Education That Works website snap-ed.extension.org. The two websites are interconnected. These are living resources that will be updated and refined regularly. Advocacy topics will be improved by experts moving forward. Comments and suggestions can be submitted to advocacy@extension.org.

Sourced from ECOP Monday Minute

When we think of giving first aid, we most likely think of attending to people who have had an accident or a health-related incident. Techniques like applying pressure to a bleeding wound, splinting a limb, or performing CPR are skills one might learn in a first aid class. But what about giving first aid to someone who may be experiencing a mental health challenge? What do we do when we see behavior changes in a family member, friend, or neighbor? Join Penn State Extension for the following webinars on mental health first aid. 

Adult Mental Health First Aid
This webinar will teach you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This eight-hour training can give you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use challenge, and help connect them to the appropriate care. This webinar is taking place Monday, June 7, 2021, from 1-4 p.m. E.T and Tuesday, June 8, 2021, from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Follow this link to learn more.

Mental Health First Aid - Adults Working with Youth
 This webinar will teach you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth. This 8-hour training gives adults who work with youth the skills they need to reach out and provide initial support to children and adolescents (ages 6-18) who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care. This webinar is taking place Monday, June 21, 2021, from 1-4 p.m.E.T and Tuesday, June 22, 2021, from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. E.T Follow this link to learn more.

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The U.S.Census Bureau and the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) Partnership in collaboration with the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information (LMI) Institute, welcomes Robert Deluca as he presents, “The Spatial Structure of U.S. Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES) Data.” Urban researchers have long debated the extent to which metropolitan employment is monocentric, polycentric, or diffuse. The event is taking place Wednesday, May 19, 2021 from 1:30-2:45 p.m. ET. Follow this link to learn more.

Sourced from: The United States Census Bureau.

Join OSU Extension presenters from across Ohio discussing urban agriculture and related issues. Many of these informational sessions were presented during monthly urban ag team meetings. You can view the recordings by following this link.