Penn State Extension
Clarion County​
​A B O U T P E N N S T A T E E X T E N S I O N, Clarion County
Helps individuals, families, communities, and businesses throughout Pennsylvania with information and a broad range of educational programs designed to:
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- Support productive, profitable, and competitive businesses and a strong agriculture and food system
- Strengthen families, children and youth, and the elderly
- Build caring, safe, and healthy communities
- Ensure the long-term vitality of Pennsylvania's natural resources
- Enable people to better understand and deal with complex public issues

What is Extension?
It is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state and county governments. Through this county-based partnership, Penn State Extension educators, faculty, and local volunteers work together to share unbiased, research-based information with local residents.
Here are just a few of the many ways Penn State Extension can help:
​Individuals:
- Managing time and stress
- Enhancing employment opportunities
- Maintaining your home
- Improving nutrition, diet, and health
- Developing the potential of youth through 4-H
- Becoming a master gardener
- Improving the lives of the elderly
Communities:
- Strengthening community leadership
- Revitalizing communities through economic development
- Expanding and retaining businesses
- Educating county and local officials
- Improving community relations
- Managing water, soil, and forest resources
- Promoting cooperation among agencies

Families:
- Managing family resources
- Making sound and economical nutrition and food choices
- Preparing and preserving food safely
- Improving your parenting skills
- Caring for children and seniors
- Balancing work and family
- Gardening and landscaping

Businesses:
- Increasing agricultural profitability
- Evaluating community and regional resources
- Delivering quality child care
- Certifying food safety
- Troubleshooting production problems
- Starting home-based businesses
- Preparing tax forms properly
- Using technology appropriately
- Supporting the food and forest products industries
Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences research and extension programs are funded in part by Pennsylvania counties, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Visit Penn State Extension on the web: extension.psu.edu

Where trade names appear, no discrimination in intended, and no endorsement by Penn State Cooperative Extension is implied.

Penn State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activites. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Patty Anderson at 814-223-9028 in advance of your participation or visit.

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