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Clemson Extension employs Extension agents who work closely with state extension specialists and researchers located on campus and at the various research and education centers located across the state.

Your local Extension agents provide expertise in agribusiness, agronomy, food safety, nutrition, horticulture, livestock and forages, forestry and wildlife resources, rural health, water resources, and 4-H and youth development.

Rural Health and Nutrition

Chronic Disease Prevention and Self-Management Programs:

The Clemson University Extension Service Rural Health and Nutrition team provides chronic disease prevention and self-management programs as well as policy, systems, and environmental approaches.

• Health Extension for Diabetes

  • The Health Extension for Diabetes program is a free diabetes support program to help you better manage your diabetes so that you prevent or delay complications.

• Know Diabetes By Heart

  • Know Diabetes By Heart (KDBH), sponsored by the American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association, is a free, online education session. The program aims to help participants better understand the link between diabetes and heart disease.

Family Wellness Programs:

• Boeing Center for Childhood Wellness initiative
  • The MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (BCCW) is partnering with Clemson University Extension through the Healthy Me Healthy SC initiative to support the vision of a South Carolina where all children are healthy, succeed in school, and thrive in life.
• Practical Strength
  • Our weekly, online strength training classes are offered every Tuesday from 9:30 - 10:00 AM (Eastern Time Zone). Modifications are offered to suite all ages and mobility levels, with the option to participate from a comfortable seat or standing.
• Stirring Up Healthy Recipes
  • Join our Stirring Up Healthy Recipes cooking class to learn more about healthy eating!
• WalkSC
  • WalkSC is a 12-week virtual physical activity program that follows South Carolina’s Palmetto Trail. Complete weekly step challenges to virtually walk across SC!
• Yoga for Every Body
  • Join online, weekly classes every Wednesday from 12:00 - 12:30 PM with Registered Yoga Teacher and Rural Health and Nutrition Extension Agent Ellie Lane. All experience levels are welcome, and beginners are strongly encouraged to join!

Women's Health Programs:

• Breastfeeding 101
  • Breastfeeding 101 is open to all expectant, new, and support person’s to mother’s/birthing persons in order to provide information about the benefits, basic techniques, and information on overcoming possible problems of breastfeeding/chestfeeding.
• Mother's Milk Bank
  • Mothers Milk Bank of South Carolina, a program powered by the Medical University of South Carolina with support from SC Neonatal Consortium and the SC Birth Outcomes Initiative was established in 2015. Women/Birthing Persons with surplus breastmilk supply are invited to become Milk Bank Donors.

Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)

The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) offered by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is aimed at providing practical, hands-on nutrition education in four core areas: diet quality and physical activity, food resource management, food safety, and food security.

• Adult Programs
  • EFNEP provides programming for adult learners who qualify as: Low-income parents and other adult caregivers or Low-income pregnant women/teens.
• Youth Programs
  • EFNEP provides programming for youth learners who qualify as: Youth of low-income families or Youth in grades K-12th.