Experiencing Tough Times
Are you and your family experiencing tough times now? It is hard to focus on getting future needs met when all of your energy is going towards keeping your family safe and fed. These resources are here to help.
Publications | Trainings | News Releases | For Professionals
Publications
- Pork Producer Resources for Difficult Financial Times — Provides resources that were specifically designed to help pork producers during difficult financial times.
- Farm Legal Series — Online series about legal contracts related to farm ownership. Information on bankruptcy, farm leases, foreclosures, and more.
- Tax Credit Information (audio clips) — Utilize your tax credits and save money in 2009 on school supplies, savings, and more.
- Eat Healthy for Less — Tips, worksheets, videos, and more will help your family stay healthy during challenging economic times by spending less.
- Adjusting to Suddenly Reduced Income — Helps people who have sudden income loss by taking into account both the emotional and financial aspects.
- Financial Crisis — Resources aimed towards businesses, families, farmers and ranchers, individuals, and youth brought to you by educators from the Cooperative Extension System.
- Getting Through Tough Times — A 17 fact sheet series on getting help, making financial decisions with less, dealing with stress, figuring out how to do more with less, and talking to children about tough times.
- Percent of 2009 Poverty Income Guidelines (284 K PDF) — Income guidelines for the major federally funded programs.
- Filing for Bankruptcy — Gives a brief overview on bankruptcy and how to go about filing for bankruptcy.
- Grief and Crisis Decisions — Gives a brief overview of the different stages of grief and our ability to make decisions depending on which stage we our in.
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Trainings
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News Releases
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For Professionals
- Managing in Tough Times — A searchable directory of programs and materials gathered through a national Extension initiative. Designed to help educators provide relevant, community-based educational programs across the nation.
- Families Navigating Economic Crises — An online community of practice for the CYFERNet community that looks at the current economic crises and the resources Extension can bring to the table. This is facilitiated by staff from the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Family Development.
- Change and Being a Leader (Online presentation) — Being a successful leader of change means understanding how people respond to change.
- Change: Loss, Opportunity, and Resilience — This publication describes the stages people go through when they experience life changes and presents ways to cope with change.
- The Minnesota Food and Nutrition Network — This member-based organization fosters coalitions to build and strengthen alliances focused on nutrition and physical activity for low-income persons.
- Losing a Way of Life? Ambiguous Loss in Farm Families — A discussion guide that helps farm families figure out what is happening and help them get a better handle on stress, change, making decisions, and family life.
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