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Balance the responsibilities of everyday living with research-based programs and information from University of Missouri Extension for people, professionals and communities.

Local Resources

University of Missouri Extension has a wide variety of programs.   Educational programs to reach diverse parent audiences include those pertaining to:

  • remarried families

  • employed parents

  • single parents

  • divorcing parents

  • children of divorce

  • fathers

  • parents of teens

  • children's learning differences

  • multicultural parents

  • parents with young children

  • grandparents raising grandchildren

Programs for Parents

  •     Children: Ages and Stages:  Information is presented on developmentally appropriate expectations and how you can understand your child through structured experiences.

  •     Understanding Teenagers:  This workshop focuses on understanding the changes experienced by today's adolescents.

  •     Successful Single Parenting:  Whether single by choice, as the result of the other parent's death, or due to divorce, single parenting can be challenging.

  •     Employed Parents:  This workshop provides activities to help employed parents identify their sources of frustration and satisfaction, consider how these affect their parenting, and explore positive approaches to make improvements.

  •     Family Rituals in Remarried Families:   Participants will learn strategies to create new rituals while they also honor the past.

  •     Positive Guidance and Discipline:  This program explores parenting styles as well as specific prevention and intervention tools.

  •     Divorcing Families:  This lesson covers the issues of divorce as a process, talking with children about divorce, possible4 effects on children at different ages, and discussion of working cooperatively with an ex spouse.

  •    Children of Divorce:  This interactive program uses story telling, imagination, and writing or drawing for younger children.

  •     Grandparents Raising Grandchildren:  This program focuses on resources available to support grandparents in this parenting role.

  •     Children's Learning Differences:  This workshop gives parents information and activities to enhance learning in the early years and advocate learning needs during the school age years.

  •     Raising Responsible Children:  This workshop provides activities that can help parents to develop a responsibility game plan.

  •    Fathers Today:  This program is designed to provide men with new perspectives on their fathering role and how they can be more involved in their children's lives.

Building Strong Families for Missouri

    When 90 of 114 Missouri counties identified building strong families as a local program priority, University of Missouri Extension responded with this seven session program for working families with dependants.

    Program content includes:

    Identifying Strengths         Communicating
    Managing Stress               Child Self Care
    Food and Fitness              Working
    Setting Goals                   Parenting
    Alert Consumer                 Balancing work and Family
    Spending                         Healthy House
    Self Esteem

For More Information Contact the Livingston County Extension office.                             email: livingstonco@missouri.edu  or Phone: 660-646-0811 or Don Miller, Human Development Specialist. email: millerd@missouri.edu  or Phone: 816-279-1691

Resources for Northwest Missouri Families

  • Northwest Missouri Extension News You Can Use (Regional Newsletter)
  • Focus on Kids is an educational program for divorcing parents. It is facilitated by University of Missouri Extension staff with the cooperation of the circuit courts of Missouri. More than half of all marriages in the United States end in divorce and the majority of divorces involve children. Divorce is a process that often begins long before any legal action is taken that may last for years, especially if children are involved and sometimes the conflict between parents is associated with negative outcomes for children.

Missouri-wide Family Life Resources

Missouri Families brings you practical information and learning opportunities on health, nutrition, parenting, aging, personal finance, housing, consumer action, divorce and more.
You can sign up for MissouriFamilies' e-newsletter.

Missouri Saves is part of the national campaign, America Saves. The goal of America Saves is to encourage Americans to save and build wealth, not debt. Through information, advice, and encouragement, we assist those who wish to pay down debt, build an emergency fund, save for a home, save for an education, or save for retirement.

Links to Other Resources

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