Dubuque Offerings for Families

Family

Featured presentations offered by Beverly Berna  

Contact Beverly Berna at (563) 583-6496 or bberna@iastate.edu to arrange for a presentation for your group, staff meeting or training event.
   
 Change--Who Me?  Through an enjoyable presentation tailored to your needs learn how to manage the stresses of change.
Child Care Lasts A Lifetime

 

Find out what you can do to ensure all our young children recieve the very best care possible

 

 

 

Generation to Generation During an interactive workshop experience the differences and similarities between generations.   
     
Stress This presentation is tailored specifically to your needs to outline the many avenues of stress in our lives and provides many tools specific to family, work, home and finances.
     
A Home for All Ages Learn about universal design features to make your home convenient and comfortable for persons of any age.
     
Family Programs offered through Beverly Berna
     
Child care staff training Single topic workshops for child care providers to develop science, nature, diversity, and physical activities that improve the educational quality of their child care business.
     
Intergenerational Computer Hands-on education connecting the generations (junior high youth and senior citizens) and the Internet, including web search and e-mail skills.
     
Poverty Simulation A 3-hour interactive 'game' allowing community participants to experience poverty and the human service in a controlled learning environment. 
     
 Strengthening Families A series of 7 parent/child (age 10 to 14) meetings assisting families to address potential issues of adolescence before they appear, including peer pressure and risky behaviors.
     
AmeriCorps Promotes academic strengths and provides enrichment activities for at-risk students through community volunteers under a grant from the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Services.
     
Kindermusik Offers family scholarships to attend this parent-child (ages 0 to 5) interactive music based child development program.

 

     
 
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Nutrition and Health  
   
Featured presentations offered by Cinday Baumgartner  
Contact Fran Passmore at (563) 568-6345 or cbaum@iastate.edu  to arrange for a presentation for your group, staff meeting or training event.
     
Eat Your Herbs Learn about 10 of the most popular herbs, their uses in cooking and medicinal benefits.
     
What's to Eat in the 21st Century  
  Learn how foods are changing and how the changes effect health.  You will understand the difference between functional food and neutraceutical and its importance in your life.
     
Delicious Soy Think that adding soy to your diet will cramp your style?  Learn the health benefits of soy and how to use it in your favorite recipes.
     
 Growing Up Healthy and Active ----  
  Childhood obesity is a concern.  Explore the implications and learn how to address this issue in your family and in the community so that all children grow up healthy and active.
     
     
Health and Nutrition Programs offered through Cindy Baumgartner
     
Serv-Safe An 8-hour food sanitation and safety training for food service workers desiring Serv-Safe certification.  (includes national exam)
     
 Walk with a Principal Parents and elementary students take regular walks with the school principal to encourage physical activity.
     
 Feelin' Good Mileage Club Parents, elementary students, teachers and staff keep track of walking mileage to encourage physical activity.
     
 Lighten Up Iowa Develops community teams to encourage and support walking 30 minutes, eating 5 fruits and vegetables and drinking water, daily.

 2/24/2005