- Author: Jodi Azulai
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Extension Methods & Delivery
Impact Collaborative Summit (Connect Extension, Virtual)
Jan. 17, 18, 19, 2023
9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Pacific time
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The Impact Collaborative Summit helps increase Cooperative Extension's organizational readiness and capacity for innovation and change by connecting teams with skills, tools, resources, and partners that can expand and deepen their impact. Participating teams will receive one on one support from coaches to help identify gaps in their project and program planning and have access to our network of expert Key Informants to help fill those gaps.
Jan. 19, 2023
Noon–12:30 PM
Join Saoimanu Sope and Ethan Ireland of UC ANR Strategic Communications. Attendees can expect to learn to how improve the production quality of videos they produce using basic photographic composition and lighting principles. Other topics will be covered briefly, including methods for recording clean audio and basic editing theory.
Zoom https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
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Dynamic Discussions (Connect Extension, Virtual)
Jan. 26, 2023
11 a.m.-Noon PST
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Each fourth Thursday of the month, the Impact Collaborative will host professionals from across Cooperative Extension and beyond to address hot topics of interest to Cooperative Extension. Each month, we will update the information for the Dynamic Discussion for the month!
Extension Skills (Connect Extension, Virtual)
Jan. 12, 2023
11 a.m.-Noon PT
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Each second Thursday of the month, the Impact Collaborative's Extension Skills series will provide an opportunity for Cooperative Extension professionals to build capacity with tools, processes, and tech skills training. Subjects like intro to podcasting, creating surveys, growing your social media, using twitter to make media connections and more were the topics of last year's Extension Skills!
So, you'd like to work with a specialist? Tips and tricks for successful collaboration with campus colleagues (ANR, Virtual)
Feb. 16
Noon-12:30 p.m.
UC ANR colleagues benefit from working across the network, but how do you start a collaboration with campus-based professionals? UC Berkeley specialist Van Butsic and ANR advisors Stephanie Larson and Yana Valacovich will share tips and tricks for successful collaboration between campus- and county-based academics. This panel discussion will share perspectives on how to find the right networks to work with, how to make sure collaborations benefit all parties, and how to grow collaborations over time.
Zoom Meeting: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/5307501239?pwd=WDI3U2g5cXRvWUhVUlY3MitJWkVVUT09
Meeting ID: 530 750 1239 Phone +1 669 900 6833 US | Password: 4Collab
Smartphone Studio (Connect Extension, Virtual)
March 8, 2023
9-10 a.m. PT
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Learn how to create professional videos with your smartphone to promote your agri-business or to "advocate" agriculture through videos using your smartphone. This session will show you what equipment to purchase, how to use it, and share positive messages about agriculture using your smartphone and other inexpensive accessories. This webinar will get you started with a budget of $200 to $500. We will review microphones, tripods, apps and techniques – all that you need to achieve a professional look and sound to share your messaging with the public.
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Building Support
Academic Cost Recover/Salary Savings (video) Slide deck (PDF), Office of Contracts and Grants, Business Operations Center
Cost Sharing/Matching Funds (video), Slide deck
Foreign Influence Update and NSPM-33 (video) Slide deck (PDF)
Pursuing fame and fortune (or some grants and new partners) with Strategic Communications (video)
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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Making the Unconscious Conscious: Understanding and Mitigating Bias (UCD, virtual)
Jan. 26, 2023
8:30 a.m.-Noon
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Bias, in its most simplistic definition, is preferring one thing over another. Biases come into play in our impression and judgment of people, especially those whose identities and experiences are different from our own. This session will explore how socialization informs snap judgments we make about people. Participants will be introduced to theory and language in understanding implicit and explicit bias. Using personal reflection, experiential exercises and case studies, participants will gain greater awareness when they engage in bias and gain essential knowledge and skills (tools) in how they recognize and mitigate biases in both personal and professional domains.
Jan. 31, 2023
8:30 a.m.-Noon
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This course will help managers assess their own cultural values and explore how they affect the recruitment, interviewing and selection processes.
The online courses in the series can be taken at any time but the instructor-led courses must be taken in order.
The Introduction to Supervision course will give you the opportunity to complete a self-assessment and explore supervisory myths.
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Microaggressions: Towards Greater Awareness and Understanding
Feb. 16, 2023
8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.
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As cultural beings, we are products of our socialization. Our socialization includes conditioning in how we understand differences and our identities and how those identities are understood and experienced at the individual and structural levels. Using the work of Derald Wing Sue, this session explores the phenomenon of microaggressions in everyday life by increasing awareness of common occurrences; understanding its impact on those who experience them; and exploring strategies on how to mitigate and respond to them.
Leading and Managing in a Multicultural Community (UCD, virtual)
May 3, 2023
8:30 a.m.-Noon
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This course will provide a model for developing our knowledge and skills to work and lead in a multicultural community.
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Office, Team, and Personal Management
Writing for and Presenting to Executives (UCD, virtual)
Feb. 27 & 28, 2023
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Writing and presenting are unique skill sets, each requiring competence in communication—and confidence. However, even people experienced in both can feel some dread knowing they'll eventually be evaluated and questioned by an executive team. Everyone will draft an executive-ready document (Day 1) and present it to the class, receiving feedback (Day 2). Excellent course!
Introduction to Supervision (UCD In-person)
Jan. 6, 2023
8:30 a.m.-Noon
Or
April 7, 2023
8:30 a.m.-Noon
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This series uses a blended learning approach combining instructor-led and e-learning courses. You will work on your individual development plan as you transition from an individual contributor role, to one of supervisor. The online courses in the series can be taken at any time but the instructor-led courses must be taken in order.
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It's a well-established fact that much like we can increase our physical strength, we can increase our mental strength as well, and that building inner strength leads to outer success. It has also been proven that the mentally strongest people have specific habits that drive their fortitude. In this course, Scott Mautz teaches different habits you can incorporate into your daily routine to specifically build your mental strength, contributing to success on so many fronts. Scott shows you how to strive for authenticity instead of approval; choose who gets to criticize you; avoid falling victim to comparison; stop asking for permission; stop giving away your power, and more. Request your LinkedIn Learning account by emailing ANR IT at help@ucanr.edu.
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Build a better to do list (LinkedIn Learning)
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The key to enhancing your productivity is to build to-do lists that work. In this course, learn a new approach to creating to-do lists, find out how to better prioritize tasks, and discover proven day-to-day workflows to put into practice immediately. Join productivity expert Mike Vardy as he shares the anatomy of a to do, revealing what goes on a list and what doesn't go on a list. Mike also explains how to gauge your progress and how to create a process that keeps your attention. Plus, explore popular to-do list apps — and learn how to eliminate apps altogether and embrace paper. Request your LinkedIn Learning account by emailing ANR IT at help@ucanr.edu.
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Learning & Development
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Better access to health care and safety net programs would help
Farmworkers are a crucial link in our food supply chain, a fact that came sharply into focus during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. To keep these essential workers healthy, there is a need for more data on farmworkers' health. A new study published by University of California scientists looks beyond work-related health concerns such as heat and pesticide exposure to the general health of the people who help plant, nurture and harvest food in California.
“The study findings confirm the high chronic-disease burden in a workforce that is considered essential but lacks adequate access to health care and safety net programs,” said Susana Matias, lead author and UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the UC Berkeley Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. “This is a concern because California needs a healthy farmworker workforce. These workers are key to putting food on our tables and should be protected and supported as any other California worker.”
After reading the study, an advocate for women farmworkers said she sees opportunities to enhance farmworkers' health by improving their working conditions by enacting policy governing work permits; childcare; pest management; unemployment benefits; access to healthy and affordable food; and safe, affordable housing.
The data in the study may be useful to UC ANR colleagues who work with farmers.
“I hope this paper increases awareness of the health situation of this workforce and how that could affect agricultural outcomes, in particular for labor intensive crops, for example,” Matias said. “Several of my nutrition colleagues are already reaching out and serving this population, but I hope that others in ANR can also keep a worker-centered approach in their extension work with farms of all sizes.”
To see a broader perspective of farmworker health, Matias analyzed data from three studies by Marc Schenker, UC Davis physician and professor emeritus. Schenker's studies examined farmworkers' general health, occupational injuries and important causes of illness and disease. Causes or so-called “social determinants” of disease include low income, food insecurity, undocumented immigration status, and poor housing conditions.
“Those social determinants are particularly negative and impact disease outcomes in the farmworker population,” Schenker said. “Too often farmworkers don't have the benefits of other working populations, including adequate health care. It is hoped that recognition of this situation can lead to addressing these deficiencies and an improvement in farmworker health.”
Irene de Barraicua, director of operations and communications for Lideres Campesinas, said the study relates to much of the work her organization does advocating for women farmworkers. She sees opportunities to enhance farmworkers' health by improving their working conditions by enacting policy governing work permits; child care; pest management; unemployment benefits; access to healthy and affordable food; and safe, affordable housing.
“The article and studies emphasize findings that call for higher salaries, better working conditions, more worker rights and access to healthcare,” de Barraicua said. “From these findings, we can also gather that the health of farmworkers is impacted by various stress factors related to poverty, excruciating and unsafe work conditions, and lack of or costly childcare to name a few.”
Matias found that female farmworkers were at higher risk of obesity and larger waist circumference, while male farmworkers were at higher risk of high blood pressure and high total cholesterol.
“These differences in chronic health risks between farmworker men and women suggests that clinical and public health responses might need to be sex-specific,” said Matias, who is also co-associate faculty director at the Berkeley Food Institute.
The studies were conducted with farmworkers in Mendota, Oxnard and Watsonville. Matias would like to expand the scope to assess the health of farmworkers statewide.
“Our study is not representative of other regions of the state,” Matias said. “A representative survey is urgently needed in California to better identify and quantify the health problems in this population, and to provide the services needed by these essential workers.”
“The article ‘The Chronic Disease Burden Among Latino Farmworkers in California' clearly brings to the forefront very important sociodemographic and socioeconomic ‘gaps' unique to farmworkers, an essential segment of our population and workforce,” said de Barraicua of Lideres Campesinas.
“We need to enact policy that facilitates access to health care including mental health services; easily accessible, free rural and mobile clinics; telehealth services, essentially unrestricted healthcare coverage for all,” de Barraicua said, adding that trusted community health workers who know the farmworkers' culture and speak their language are needed.
She also noted the growing population of indigenous Mexican farmworkers who face greater challenges related to language access, limited education and immigration status.
The article, co-authored by Matias, Schenker, UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Caitlin French and student Alexander Gomez-Lara, is published in Frontiers in Public Health.
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
UC Cooperative Extension advisors are invited to propose projects for the summer student fellowship program offered by the Planetary Health Center of Expertise at UC Davis. The fellowships allow the students to get some “real world” experience and provide the advisors with support from some sharp UC student minds.
Advisors submit a summary of their opportunity and students submit their areas of interest. Potential matches are then identified. Before embarking on a project, the advisors and the students discuss to ensure there is a good match.
Fellowships start in June 2023.
Student and host site applications are now posted at Call for Applications: Summer Work Experience. Applications will be initially reviewed if submitted by Feb. 10 and will be accepted through March 2023.
For more information, visit https://ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu/centers-of-expertise/planetary-health/call-applications-summer-work-experience.
- Author: Trina Kleist and UC Davis Cannabis & Hemp Research Center
Studies seek better management practices, varieties, after research hiatus
The University of California's first Industrial Hemp Field Day presented work by the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences to help farmers manage common problems and improve their yields. Researchers discussed their latest findings to better manage hemp production, touching on diseases, weeds, insects, pesticide resistance, biological controls and regulatory processes. Field demonstrations included ongoing trials on nitrogen and water use.
An estimated 80 to 100 growers turned out for the Sept. 22 event, showing the demand for scientific guidance for legal hemp cultivation.
Reports on progress breeding new varieties of hemp came from Daniel Pap, a postdoctoral researcher, and Charlie Brummer, a professor and director of the UC Davis Center for Plant Breeding. Pap is studying the genetic material of hemp seeds stored for scientific investigation by the United States Department of Agriculture. He's trying to find plants with key qualities for industrial production, such as pest resistance, CBD content and usefulness as a grain, in textiles and in building materials.
“It's very important, because germplasm for breeding is a national interest,” Pap said.
Bob Hutmacher reported on the tremendous differences in water use among different varieties that are likely to be grown in California, ranging from very short-season (autoflower types) to full season (photoperiod-sensitive) types. Hutmacher, a recently retired professor emeritus of Cooperative Extension, worked with Oregon State University on the study funded by the USDA.
Maya Hotz, a staff researcher, reported some early results from studies on nitrogen fertilizer rate response being conducted at two sites for both autoflower and full-season types. The study is sponsored by the Fertilizer Research and Education Program of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Information about cannabis varieties collected in Iran was presented by Mahboubeh Dehnavi, a visiting scholar in the Taylor Lab.
State regulators helped the audience understand the regulatory hurdles encountered with growing hemp as a commercial crop.
Research continues to develop new varieties and improve the understanding of pest management and agronomic practices. Such research had been banned by federal law since 1970, but was legalized by the bi-partisan Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018.
The inaugural field day was held in collaboration withKadie Britt, a post-doctoral scholar at UC Riverside. Britt is working on pest management issues at the Kearney Research and Extension Center inParlier.
Hemp study a new area of research
Research on campus and at the Research and Extension Centers addresses important issues such as optimum plant density for different varieties, irrigation need, response to drought, sampling methods for THC, CBD and quality comparisons, and response of industrial hemp to nitrogen fertilizers.
Brad Hanson, a professor of Cooperative Extension and weed management specialist, is working with UCCE Farm Advisor Sarah Light to evaluate how hemp leaves respond to injury from herbicides used on a range of other crops. They're also developing tools to assess crop injury symptoms that might occur in the field.
In the future, work may also focus on hemp varieties and management practices best suited for production of industrial hemp as a fiber crop.
Industrial hemp research has been conducted at the UC Davis Research Farm and at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center (Five Points) since 2019, led by Hutmacher and Dan Putnam, a professor of Cooperative Extension. Breeding began about the same time, led by Brummer and postdoctoral researchers. This work stemmed from frequent questions brought by farmers about how to produce and manage industrial hemp, and questions about the appropriate varieties to grow.
Industrial hemp is a close relative of marijuana but without the physiologically active compound THC. In 2019, it became legal to grow commercially. Industrial hemp is used primarily for natural remedies, as the active compound CBD may have healing properties.
In 2021 across the United States, legal hemp was grown outdoors on nearly 33,500 acres, with another 15.6 million square feet of indoor cultivation, together worth $824 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
/h4>- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
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