Family and Consumer Sciences

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Welcome

MSU Extension Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) programs help Michigan’s families live happy, healthier lives. These programs help us decide what foods to eat and how to prepare and store them safely. They help parents work with their children to improve nutrition and increase exercise, new mothers feel comfortable with breastfeeding and people with chronic health conditions take control of their disease. There are programs to teach us how to be better parents or caregivers, keep our homes safe, manage our money more wisely and make the most of the aging process. FCS uses its statewide network of Extension offices and partners and a wide variety of resources and programs to improve quality of life across the lifespan through:

Childcare program development
Healthy families, communities and lifestyles development
Health education
Financial literacy education
Nutrition education
Parenting education

For more information about the FCS programs available in your area, contact your county MSU Extension office (look under county government in your phone book).

News & Events

Given Michigan's economic difficulties, the 2010 budget proposal put forth by Governor Granholm's office is a tough one for many state-funded agencies and programs, including MSU Extension and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Learn how the proposal, if adopted, would affect MSUE and MAES by visiting our new Budget page.

NEW! Family Economics and Consumerism Updates

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Macomb County Battles Foreclosures
Draft article for the MSUE Family and Consumer Science Annual Report

Michigan Community for a Lifetime
The number of seniors in Michigan is increasing… and that’s a good thing! Over the next fifteen years there will be a 41% increase in the number of residents age 65 and over. That’s 500,000 additional people age 65 and over by the year 2020...