2024 Annual Session

2024 NEAFCS Annual Session
#NEAFCS2024 
September 16-19, 2024

Thank you to those members and professionals who joined us in the Sonoran Desert for the 2024 Annual Session. 

Photos from the 2024 Annual Session are now available for view and download. Just simply click on the photos and click the download button. You do not have to purchase photos. 

First Timer Scholarship Reflections

Cancellation Request (scroll to bottom of page for policy and refund form)

Registration Information (for those needing details for budgets and expense reports)


Thank you to our Exhibitors & Sponsors!

           

 

 

2025 Annual Session, Grand Rapids, MI (Central Region)
325 John Knox Rd. L103
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Website: www.neafcs.org
Contact Names: Courtney Aldrich, Melissa Rupp, Samantha Roth
Are you ready to add some SPARK? The 2025 NEAFCS Annual Session invites you to vote for your favorite lip sync performer who will hopefully shine bright, illuminate your knowledge about the North Central region and receive a little SPARK!

Alzheimer’s Association
980 Kylemore Dr.
Ballwin, MD 63021
Phone: (314) 283-3529
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.alz.org
Product/Service Description: The Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia - by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support

American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
1410 King St. 2nd Floor
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: (703) 706-4600
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.aafcs.org
Product/Service Description: Membership includes access to professional development, community networks, the Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, job board, education and offers 12 pre-professional and four professional assessments and corresponding certificates

CHAMPION SPONSOR
American Heart Association

7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75231
Phone: (
630) 561-5545
Email: 
[email protected]
Product/Service Description: Through Healthy for Life®, the American Heart Association and Aramark introduced an innovative health impact model. The Healthy for Life Community Nutrition Program is designed to inspire individuals to make healthy food choices part of their everyday lives. We are proud to be working together to improve the health of all Americans.

Arizona 4-H Youth Development
1140 E South Campus Drive
PO Box 210036
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0036
Phone: (520) 621-6979
Email: 
Website: www. extension.arizona.edu/4h
Product/Service Description: Come learn how Arizona 4-H is inspiring the next generation of leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Learn more about AZ 4-H curriculum, programs, and publications.

Arizona Service Project
Support the 2024 NEAFCS Annual Session Service Project!  Help assemble hygiene kits for Arizona youth in need.  Lend a hand in putting together the kits on both Wednesday and Thursday during Exhibit Hall hours. Visit our Tabletop in the hall.

Canopy, A Public Benefit Company
120 Nort Juliette Ave
Manhattan, Kansas 66502
Phone: (785) 706-9292
Email: [email protected]
Website : https://canopyteam.org/
Product/Service Description: PEARS is a revolutionary software designed to transform Cooperative Extension's approach to data collection, analysis, and reporting. Focused on documenting the impacts of Extension programming, PEARS equips Extension professionals with the tools they need to effectively communicate their achievements and demonstrate the value they bring to their communities.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
1700 G. Street, NW Washington
District of Columbia 20552
Phone: (202) 435-7687
Email: [email protected]
Product/Service Description: This booth will have FREE resources to teach financial literacy or answer questions for consumers.

Fresh Baby
523 E. Mitchell St
Petoskey, MI 49770
Phone: (231) 348-2706
Email: [email protected]
Website: freshbaby.com
Product/Service Description: Fresh Baby, a USDA GOLD MyPlate National Strategic Partner, creates nutrition and physical activity products for all ages. Collaborating with public health programs and non-profits, we prioritize participant success to promote overall health

Journal of Extension
116 Sigma Drive
Clemson, SC 29634
Phone: (864) 656-7156
Email: [email protected]   
Website: www.joe.org
Product/Service Description: The Journal of Extension is the flagship referred Journal for Extension professionals. As a diamond open access publication, we publish and distribute original and applied research findings and share successful educational applications, scholarly opinions, and challenges on issues of critical importance to Extension professionals at no cost to authors or readers.

BAG SPONSOR
Money Habitudes, LLC
5830 Jamila River Dr.
Venice, FL 34293
Phone: (941) 444-9189
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.moneyhabitudes.com
Product/Service Description: Money Habitudes is a game-like assessment – played either via physical cards or online – to help people understand and talk about their finances in a fun, constructive way. It also allows people to pinpoint underlying financial habits, attitudes and motivations to make real behavior changes.

National Presto Industries, Inc.
3925 North Hastings Way
Eau Claire Wisconsin 54703
Phone: 715/839-2029
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.gopresto.com
Product/Service Description: National Presto Industries dates back to 1905 when the company began manufacturing industrial size pressure canners known as "canner retorts". Today Presto remains a recognized industry leader in home food preservation. Stop by our Tabletop to view appliances, receive educational materials, and enter drawing.

ADVOCATE SPONSOR
CONFERENCE PEN SPONSOR

Newell Brands (Ball Home Canning)
Advocate Sponsor
6655 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 404/782-5270
Email: [email protected]
Product/Service Description: Home canning mason jars, closures, accessories, and dry food storage

OneOp
PO Box 93
104 Hutcheson Hall (0402)
250 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg Virginia 24061
Phone: (919) 641-3319
Email: [email protected]
Website:  www.oneop.org
Product/Service Description: OneOp is a single point entry professional development resource for military service providers and Extension professionals

Progressive Agriculture Foundation
PO Box 93
Tompkinsville Kentucky 42167
Phone: (270) 427-7128
Email: [email protected]
Website:  www.progressiveag.org
Product/Service Description: Progressive Agriculture Safety Day programs offer thirty-two safety and health topics including disability awareness, all-terrain (ATV)/ utility task vehicle (UTV) safety, water safety, and mental well-being and stress management The curriculum features age-appropriate lessons designed for youth ages 4 to 13 and a fun, hands-on, safe approach.

Real Colors
20815 N 25th Place, Suite A103
Phoenix, AZ 85050
Phone: 602/452-5511
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.realcolors.org
Contact: Ashley Miller
Product/Service Description: Real Colors is a dynamic workshop experience using a personality type test. The goal is to provide participants with the skills to understand human behavior, uncover motivators specific to each temperament, and improve communication with others.

Southern Peanut Growers
1025 Sugar Pike Way
Canton, GA 30115
Phone: 770/309-7018
Email: [email protected]
Website: peanutbutterlovers.com
Contact: Leslie Wagner
Product/Service Description: Southern Peanut Growers believes in the power of the peanut to change the world from sustainable farming practices to sustainable nutrition and early introduction to prevent peanut allergies We have your peanut curriculum needs

Texas Tech University Family & Consumer Sciences Education
1301 Akron Ave.
College of Human Sciences
Lubbock Texas 79409
Website:  https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/fcse/index.php
Phone: 602/452-5501
Email: [email protected]
Product/Service Description: Texas Tech offers a Masters and PhD in Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Education at a distance or on campus. Become a leader in FCS Extension Education and Research!

The Dibble Institute
PO Box 7881
Berkeley California 94707
Phone: (800) 695-7975 x700
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.dibbleinstitute.org/
Product/Service Description: Mind Matters, an evidence based curriculum, offers strategies to help teens and adults understand the effects of adversity and toxic stress while teaching them skills to calm their mental and physical stress responses. All 12 lessons, based on current science, include activities to increase hope, overcome difficulties, and build resilience.

The University of Arizona's Take Charge Today Program
1145 E. South Campus Dr. Rm. 213
Tucson Arizona 85721
Phone: 520/621-3998
Email: [email protected]
Product/Service Description: Take Charge Today is a comprehensive, hands-on financial education curriculum geared towards middle and high school aged students. It is written by teachers for teachers and located at The University of Arizona.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street NE
Washington District of Columbia 20549
Phone: (202) 551-2030
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.sec.gov/page/oieasectionlanding
Product/Service Description: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education carries out the SEC’s investor education program, which includes producing and distributing FREE educational materials, leading educational seminars and investor-oriented events, and other investor literacy initiatives.

USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
805 Pennsylvania Ave
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Phone: (330) 810-6111
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.nifa.usda.gov
Product/Service Description: The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provides leadership and funding for programs that advance food and agriculture-related sciences. NIFA invests in and supports initiatives that advance agriculture research, education, and extension to solve societal challenges.