How is this going to work ?
As a collective, all UME-Baltimore City educational program areas will work cooperatively to analyze and create a strategic plan to deliver targeted programming that will:
• Increase leadership, entrepreneurial, and workforce development opportunities for youth and adults that will foster economic stability in communities.
• Increase basic knowledge of health issues for youth and families that can result in improved quality of life through physical activity, consumption of healthful food and reduced risk of chronic diseases over time.
• Increase basic financial literacy of city residents in areas relating to credit, debt, and spending.
• Increase use and affordability of locally-grown, fresh food through local market, community gardens and high tunnel methods for community members and to create new re-development opportunities to reduce urban blight.
• Increase advocacy and advisement by community members in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of watershed restoration projects.
The University of Maryland Extension programs are open to all citizens without regards to race, color, gender, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, marital or parental status or national origin.