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Announcements and Highlights

Wellness Wednesdays: Begin with You

Self-care strategies help prevent illness and promote healthy behaviors that contribute to an individual’s overall health. Join this series to learn more!

Virtual Yoga and Meditation

Greet the winter slump by warming your body and soul with gentle yoga and meditation. Yoga sequences will focus on the use of props to find greater ease and stability in your yoga practice.

Calm the monkey mind with guided meditation

Beginning January 10, 2022. Register here.

Cook County Master Gardener Interest List

Register to be added to our future MG training interest list.

Health and Wellness Study for 50+

If you are 50+ without a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or related dementia, we are seeking your participation in a wellness program evaluation study.

Cook County Extension office hours

All Cook County Extension offices are open Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 4 PM.

Schools Online

Illinois Extension is well positioned to help parents and teachers dive more deeply into relevant and interesting curriculum areas.

Click here to order Wits Workout

Wits Workout is a peer-reviewed, pilot tested, brain health resource tool developed to assist leaders who provide programming to older adults in community settings.

Everyone's Mental Health Matters

New website sheds light on mental health and provides resources, tools, and strategies to address challenges that individuals might be facing.

Conservation @ Home

Cook County recognizes and certifies properties that demonstrate environmentally sound landscape practices. Register your home or school today!

La Salud de Todos Importa

El nuevo sitio web informa sobre la salud mental y proporciona recursos, herramientas y estrategias para abordar los desafíos que las personas o sus seres queridos podrían estar enfrentando.

Ask a Master Gardener

Get Ready for the Gardening Season! The University of Illinois Extension: Cook County has a team of Master Gardeners ready to answer your gardening questions

Community Health at your fingertips

Extension's Community Health Team shares information through this blog to educate communities, prevent illness, and inspire healthy behaviors.

Juntos program empowers Latino 8th-12th grade students and their parents.

Juntos 4-H works on strengthening community partners to provide Latino 8-12th grade students and their parents with knowledge, skills, and resources to prevent youth from dropping out and to encourage families to work together to gain higher education.

Trauma Informed Care for Teachers

This is an introduction to trauma, compassion, and resiliency. Teachers also learn strategies for building a compassionate classroom. We want to deliver this workshop at your school.

Health Rocks!

This educational series instills in youth participants the confidence and skills to develop the internal strength to make positive life choices. The series uses a combination of group activities and self-reflection exercises to inform, inspire and educate

Smart Cents

The overall goal of 4-H Smart Cents is to increase the ability of youth to make informed decisions about financial health while strengthening their use of social and emotional skills necessary for success as they grow into responsible adults.

Volunteering with 4-H

Do you have a passion to help young adults?
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