The Health & Wellness Coordinator is a 2.5 year position (September 1, 2020-August 31, 2022) assisting in the coordination of HEART programming with HEART Faculty in 3 Utah counties (Carbon, Emery, and Weber). This position is located in Davis County at the USU Extension - Kaysville Office.    The Health Extension: Advocacy, Research, and Teaching Initiative, also known as HEART is a new pilot initiative through Utah State University Extension. This cutting-edge, 4-year pilot program is aligned with National Cooperative Extension's recently instituted essential focus area in health and wellness. HEART serves as a model of how Extension can join community partners to better address the health and wellness needs in our state. HEART brings unique academic resources into the community, partnering locally and nationally to address the opioid epidemic and other pressing public health issues.   For more information, please visit our website here: https://extension.usu.edu/heart/

The Utah State University Extension 4-H in Salt Lake City is placing 50 refugee youth into summer internship work. 40 refugee youths with a wage of $10.00 an hour for internship work and 10 youths from past internship to move into leadership roles to mentor other youth in the program and receive a wage of $10.50 per hour. The Interns will be placed closely to their choice of selection of job interest from their initial application form. The youths will be placed in employers such as after school programs, community centers, libraries, recreation departments, senior centers and other related work places. Each employer will have different job responsibilities and job policies the interns will need to follow. To ensure a successful internship the interns will attend four mandatory pre-internship training sessions.   To be pre-approved you must meet the following qualifications: - They must be refugee or some other qualifying immigrant. - The qualify for TANF funding (this is federal family assistance money) - Focus on teens Age 16-19 Please contact Lhaksam Choedon (801) 859-1958 to be approved.

The USU Create Better Health (SNAP-ED) nutrition education program teaches nutrition lessons and cooking skills to low-income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible.Utah State University Extension Create Better Health nutrition education program in Wayne County is seeking a qualified individual to work part-time (20 hours per week depending on available grant funding) teaching nutrition and cooking skills to limited income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible. Familiarity with Food Stamp procedures and food distribution sites is desirable.  Successful applicants will be required to recruit the clients they teach.   Ambassador will dependably teach Create Better Health basic nutrition, food safety, food money budgeting, and educate about physical activity to groups of low-income individuals and families eligible to receive SNAP benefits. They will provide community outreach to agencies and organizations in targeted areas with the purpose of motivating participants to develop healthier habits for themselves and their families. This includes policy, systems and environment, (PSE) work. Requires regular travel within assigned county and district. Occasional travel to state trainings will also be required. Continuation of employment is based upon need, performance and available funding. This position works under County Extension supervisors and must follow Create Better Health (SNAP-Ed) policies and procedures.

Afterschool Enrichment Coordinator will oversee the daily enrichment activities associated with the afterschool program, will work closely with the academic coordinator and school administrators to ensure that enrichment activities closely correspond to academic activities. Position will be at Multiple Locations.

The USU Food Sense nutrition education program teaches nutrition lessons and cooking skills to low-income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible. Utah State University Extension Food Sense nutrition education program in Sanpete County is seeking a qualified individual to work part-time (20 hours per week depending on available grant funding) teaching nutrition and cooking skills to limited income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible. Familiarity with Food Stamp procedures and food distribution sites is desirable. Successful applicants will be required to recruit the clients they teach.

The USU Food Sense nutrition education program teaches nutrition lessons and cooking skills to low-income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible. Utah State University Extension Food Sense nutrition education program in San Juan County is seeking a qualified individual to work part-time (20 hours per week depending on available grant funding) teaching nutrition and cooking skills to limited income adults and youth who are Food Stamp eligible. Familiarity with Food Stamp procedures and food distribution sites is desirable. Successful applicants will be required to recruit the clients they teach.

To provide assistance to the Utah State University Extension Faculty and implement 4-H/youth development programming in Garfield County with an emphasis on Bryce Valley, Escalante and Boulder areas.