NFCS renamed Community Nutrition and Health

For decades, Cooperative Extension across the country has frequently used the name “Nutrition Family and Consumer Sciences” to refer to locally driven efforts that strengthen our public health in concert with the federally funded nutrition education programs that support individuals to make healthier food choices. In 2020, UC ANR senior leadership identified the need for a name change, in parallel with similar repositioning other states are undertaking, to more accurately reflect our work across California and open new pathways for our future. They brainstormed with the health-related advisor network and landed on the term “Community Nutrition and Health.”

In February 2022, this name was reflected in the title of the newly hired Statewide Director of Community Nutrition and Health, and has since become the title of several newly recruited UC Cooperative Extension advisor positions. 

By changing our name to Community Nutrition and Health, we are bringing more attention to the ways our programs support community health outside of nutrition education, such as increasing physical activity, spreading awareness about flu and COVID-19 vaccines, and working with strategic partners to advance policy, systems and environmental changes that support public health.

This new name is more understandable and resonant with our audiences and also points the way to our work ahead: reaching more Californians and strengthening healthy communities in newer and deeper ways. It coincides with an internal strategic planning process that will help us advance integrated approaches to promote holistic health and equitable communities for all Californians.

The Community Nutrition and Health network of researchers and educators advance local research and extension work focused on improving human health, and often work within theCalFresh Healthy Living, UC program and Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, with lots of collaboration with the UC Master Food Preserver Program, the UC Master Gardener Program, the 4-H Youth Development Program and the Nutrition Policy Institute.

If you are an active member of the Community Nutrition and Health network, please keep reading for important actions to support this name change.

For all Community Nutrition and Health advisors, specialists, supervisors and educators 

Please update your ANR Profile:

1. Log into the ANR Portal
2. Click on “Profile” in the top, left corner
3. Click on “Unit(s)” in the left side menu
4. In the Search bar, type “Community Nutrition and Health” and select as Primary Unit
5. In the Search bar, type the statewide program you work with and select as Secondary Unit

For all Community Nutrition and Health advisors, specialists, supervisors, and educators – please update your email signature:

1. Open Outlook and click on the File tab.
2. Click Options and then choose Mail.
3. Scroll down to the Signatures section and click the Edit button.
4. Make your changes in the Signature Editor and then click OK.
5. Your changes will be saved automatically.
6. Your new signature should appear like this example with “Community Nutrition and Health” beneath your statewide program name:

Christie Hedrick, MPH
Statewide Coordinator
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
Community Nutrition and Health
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources
2801 Second Street, Davis, CA 95618
Office: (530) 390-9753
Email: clhedrick@ucanr.edu
EFNEP |  UCANR

For all Community Nutrition and Health advisors and county-based website administrators – please update your websites. (Site Builder does not have a search and replace function built in, so we'll use Google.)

1. Open a new browser tab.
2. The site owner/admin should log in to their portal, and navigate to Site Builder
3. Open another new browser tab, and go to Google.com and search for “site:ucanr.edu/sites/NFCS_CA/ “Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences (NFCS)”
4. Google will return search results for all instances of “Nutrition, Family, and Consumer Sciences (NFCS)” on the site. 
5. Click on the first link of search results and you'll go to a page you can find in Site Builder to make your changes.
6. Find the Search terms in the proper Text Box Asset, then replace them. You can search the Text Asset by using Ctrl F for Windows or Command F for Mac.
7. Scroll down to the bottom of Edit Page and click the Update Asset Button.
8. Test your changes by scrolling up on the page and clicking View Current Site tab in the green tab row.
9. If everything looks good, go back to Google and click on the next link in your original search results.
10. Repeat Steps 5-9 for the remaining search results pertaining to your webpage.

Don't worry about updating blogs or news articles.

Rest assured these changes will be adopted into the exciting new Integrated Web Platform site to be launched in the coming months.

Please complete all of these changes by Aug. 31, 2023. 

If you have any questions about these actions, please contact Amira Resnick, Statewide Director of Community Nutrition and Health, at arresnick@ucanr.edu.

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