Building Farm and Farm Family Resilience in our Communities

A C K NOWL E D GM E N T S

Our thanks to multiple people for their input that guided our thinking and organization of concepts and materials for professionals to use for educational programming including our Delaware and Maryland NTAE team members

Reviewers: We want to acknowledge the following individuals from multiple disciplines who provided content and usability reviews of this e-Fieldbook version.

David Buys, Associate Professor, Health Specialist, Mississippi State University, david.buys@msstate.edu

Leslie A. Forstadt , Ph.D. Extension Associate Professor, Human Development Specialist and Director, Maine Agricultural Mediation Program, University of Maine Extension, leslie.forstadt@maine.edu

Susan Harris , Extension Educator, University of Nebraska Extension, Lead, Wellness in Tough Times NTAE Project, susan.harris@unl.edu

Lorna Wounded Head , Family Resource Management Field Specialist, South Dakota State University Extension, Lorna.WoundedHead@sdstate.edu

Adam Kantrovich , AgriBusiness Specialist, Clemson University, akantro@clemson.edu

Emily Krekelber , Extension Educator, Livestock & Director, Rural Stress Task Force, University of Minnesota Extension, krek0033@umn.edu

David Thompson , Swine Management Educator and member of Michigan State University Extension Managing Farm Stress Task Force, tom1637@msu.edu

Sandra Thompson , Ed.D. Community Development Extension Specialist, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension, CIVIC Impact Team (deliberative forums). sandra.thompson@famu.edu

Advisors: Many thanks to the following members of the New Technologies for Agriculture Extension(NTAE) Team. They have been supportive in so many ways. An extra big Thank You to Ashley who took leadership publishing this edition.

Tira Adelman , Administrative Support & Reporting Karl Bradley , Leadership Beverly Coberly , Administrative Support Ashley Griffin , Publications Rose Hayden-Smith , Digital Engagement Chuck Hibberd , Catalyst

Megan Hirschman , Partnership Molly Immendorf , Professional Development

Akashi Kaul , Evaluation Rick Klemme , Catalyst

Heather Martin , Peer Review Coordinator Aaron Weibe , Marketing/Communications

Editor: Many thanks to Lynn Little , retired University of Maryland Extension Educator, for her diligent and extensive editing of references, figures, and photographs.

Cover Photo: Hank Herrera, W.K. Kellogg Class 6 Leadership Fellow, took this photo after a storm on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The building and light pole appear tilted, serving as a reminder that just as some stressors are out of our control, so too are phenomena that bring hope. Hope, associated with resilience, can get us through tough times when life on the farm is tilted and unpredictable.

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