Family Issues Summit

What your momma didn't tell you

Texas AgriLife Extension Service is partnering with the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Human Sciences to offer the first Family Issues Summit. The summit will be held on Monday, February 2, 2009 in the Baker Pattillo Student Center on the campus of SFA, Nacogdoches, Texas.

This conference is open to anyone interested in family issues - professionals, students, community residents, volunteers working in family related roles, parents and educators.

For more information about the Texas AgriLife Extension Service and Family and Consumer Sciences program go to: texasextension.tamu.edu or fcs.tamu.edu.

Speakers and topics to be covered include:
Phyllis Gilbert, M.S. M.Ed, - School of Human Sciences, SFASU - Family Finances and Credit; Carol Bradley - R.D., L.D. School of Human Sciences, SFASU - Nutrition for Today's Families; Jessica Henderson - Families in Transition; Wayne Waddleton - Yours, Mine and Ours, Moving Beyond Blended/Step-Families; Carol Rice, PhD, R.N., Texas AgriLife Extension - Caring for the Caregiver; Susan Bennett, TDSHS - Childhood Obesity; Patrice Dunagin - Texas AgriLife Extension, CEA - Wi$eUp Financial Management for Women; Nancy Granovski, CFCS, CFP, Texas AgriLife Extension Service - Why Financial Literacy Matters

For more information, please call (936) 560-7711 or 560-7706.

Karen Sessions Tucker. M.S.
Family and Consumer Sciences Agent
Nacogdoches County