Extension
AIM for CHangE
Advancing, Inspiring, Motivating for Community Health through Extension (AIM for CHangE) is creating community coalitions to solve health issues alongside local champions. By increasing opportunities for physical activity and promoting access to healthier foods, community-led AIM for CHangE coalitions are developing healthier cultures across Mississippi. Visit the website
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) provides practical, hands-on nutrition education that changes behavior. It focuses on reaching the poorest of the poor by working through families to address the health disparities associated with some of our most pervasive societal challenges—hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and obesity. Visit the website
Food Safety at Home
Food Safety at Home equips families with food safety knowledge and resources that will help improve food safety behaviors and practices at home. Visit the website
Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance Preventive Controls for Human Food Course
The FSMA regulation requires every processing facility to have at least one trained or experienced resource person or "Preventive Controls Qualified Individual- QI" who has completed a specialized training course such as the one developed by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) that is recognized by the FDA. Visit the website
Get Healthy, Trim Down Delta
Get Healthy, Trim Down Delta is a program designed by Mississippi State University Extension Service to help communities develop local solutions to combat obesity within the Delta. Visit the website
HACCP
To help Meat, Poultry, and Catfish Processors comply with USDA's "Pathogen Reduction and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)" regulations Visit the website
HappyHealthy
HappyHealthy is a campaign created to help everyone in Mississippi live a happier, healthier life. Visit the website
Healthy Homes Initiative
The goal of the MSU Extension Healthy Homes Initiative is to equip Mississippians with the knowledge they need to keep their indoor environments safe and healthy. Visit the website
Healthy Lifestyle Volunteer
The Healthy Lifestyle Volunteer is associated with the Master Health Education Volunteer Program. The goal of this program is to train volunteers from within the four counties participating in the Get Healthy, Trim Down Delta project to give educational presentations related to reducing and preventing obesity. Visit the website
Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program
Junior Master Wellness Volunteer program is a community health education leader training program offered through the MSU Extension 4-H program in partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and the UMMC/Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute. Visit the website
Marination 101
This intensive hands-on lab/lecture-based workshop is for meat, poultry and fish processors and related businesses that are involved in value added and/or quality enhancement of muscle food products through marination. Industry and academia experts will conduct the informational sessions. Visit the website
Office of Nutrition Education
The Office of Nutrition Education administers the Mississippi State University-Extension Service's two federally funded nutrition education programs—Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and Family Nutrition Program (FNP), known nationally as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-ED). Visit the website
PROMISE Initiative
PReventing Opioid Misuse in the SouthEast, the PROMISE Initiative, is fighting the opioid epidemic with a multi-phased approach to prevent prescription opioid misuse in rural Mississippi. Visit the website
Rural Medical Scholars
The Rural Medical & Science Scholars program helps rising high school seniors determine if they want to pursue health-related careers and shapes students' interest and understanding of medicine, health-related disciplines, and other STEM fields. The program aims to ensure a strong and passionate workforce for the long-term goals of improving Mississippi's economy and increasing access to healthcare. Visit the website
ServSafe
ServSafe is a nationally recognized food safety management curriculum and certification process recognized by the Mississippi State Department of Health as meeting the food safety criteria required of any licensed foodservice facility in Mississippi. Visit the website
Smart Aging: Healthy Futures
The Smart Aging: Healthy Futures project was developed by Mississippi State University Extension Service, with funding from the United States Department of Agriculture, to help communities foster the healthy aging of their senior populations. Visit the website
SNAP-Ed
In cooperation with the Mississippi Department of Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Extension provides the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed). SNAP-Ed consists of nutrition education delivered by paraprofessional nutrition educators. Visit the website
Walk-a-Weigh (Adult Audience)
Walk-a-Weigh (Adult Audience) will educate clients about different strategies to implement or improve nutrition and physical activity habits for themselves and/or their family. Visit the website
