Family and Community Health Sciences (FCHS) helps people stay healthy, enjoy life, be active, and reduce health care costs. Many of today's health problems--obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer--can be reduced through good nutrition and a healthy life style. FCHS encourages today's busy families and individuals to learn more and make personal choices to improve health. FCHS combines research and practical advice to improve your health for a better tomorrow.

Key Initiative

Get Moving - Get Healthy New Jersey - encourages a healthy lifestyle, especially healthy eating and physical activity, through educational programs, a website, publications and targeted marketing campaigns.

Program Focus Areas

• Children's Health Summits: Fighting Back Against Childhood Obesity
• Family Health History
• Financial Aspects of Health
• Food - From Farm to Fork
• Health Literacy
• Healthy Eating
• Nutrition Education Targeting Limited Resource Families
  • Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
  • NJ Food Stamp Education Program (FSNEP)
• Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention
• Physical Activity
• School Wellness

Additional FCHS Program Areas

• Family Lifestyle
• Food Safety and Food Allergies
• Environmental Health

Department Publications

• Visions Newsletter
• Food, Nutrition, and Health Publications