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Health Insurance 101-Help on the WAY

We all have a new annual task added to our must–do list.  This task appears during November.  The task is to identify a Health Insurance Plan during the open enrollment period.  Continue reading to find tools to help you navigate the sea of paper and digital information to assist you in selecting a Health Insurance […]

WRITTEN BY: Margaret Jenkins

REVIEWED BY: Trevor Corboy

SOURCES:

  • Brown, V., Russell, M., Ginter, A., Braun, B., Little, L., Pippidis, M., McCoy, T. (2015, December). Smart Choice Health Insurance: A New, Interdisciplinary Program to Enhance Health Insurance Literacy. Health Promotion Practice. DOI: 10.1177/1524839915620393
  • https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/Search-the-Data#srch=medical%20insurance;
  • M. PAULA FITZGERALD, THOMAS K. BIAS and TAMI GURLEY-CALVEZ The Affordable Care Act and Consumer Well-Being: Knowns and Unknowns Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2015
  • https://magic.piktochart.com/output/588697-health-literacy-infogram
  • http://hslguides.osu.edu/osue

REFERENCES:

  • http://extension.umd.edu/insure
  • https://www.healthcare.gov/
  • https://medlineplus.gov/
  • https://hsl.osu.edu/

Building 21st Century Family Relationship Skills

  How should OSU Extension go about Strengthening Ohio Families and Communities? What are the relationship skills needed to nurture Ohio’s families into the future.   Let me refer back to an earlier post Parenting Today = Tomorrow’s Leaders to guide us in this exploration.  This past post tackled the question of what parenting strategies to […]

WRITTEN BY: Margaret Jenkins, FCS Extension Educator, Clermont County

REVIEWED BY: Shawna Hite, FCS, Healthy People Program Specialist; James Bates, Field Specialist, Family Wellness, OSU Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences

SOURCES:

  • https://livesmartohio.osu.edu/family-and-relationships/jenkins-188osu-edu/parenting-today-tomorrows-leaders/
  • http://extension.osu.edu/about/conversations-future-osu-extension
  • http://extension.osu.edu/about/conversations-future-extension/forecasting-ohio-2035

REFERENCES:

  • http://extension.osu.edu/sites/ext/files/imce/About_docs/Future_Conversations/17%20trends-social_skills_competencies_and_relationships_across_community_and_family_environments.pdf

Parenting Today = Tomorrow’s Leaders

All of us have been parented in a manner that guides us along the path to becoming contributing members of society. Parenting is the major task of the work of the family. Generally, we parent the way we were parented. Family traditions are occurrences from the past that families want to carry forward to help […]

WRITTEN BY: Margaret Jenkins, Extension Educator, OSU Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences

REVIEWED BY: Jim Bates, Field Specialist, Family Wellness, OSU Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences & Shawna Hite, Healthy People Program Specialist, OSU Extension, Family and Consumer Sciences

PHOTO CREDITS:

  • OSU Extension LOOK to Clermont Program

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