Marilyn Sullivan
Extension Educator, Family & Consumer Resources

Marilyn Sullivan provides educational programming primarily in the areas of family finance and food safety.

Our family finance programs are designed to help adults, teens, and youth improve their money management skills, to increase financial knowledge, and to enhance their financial decision-making skills. Through seminars, workshops, publications, and learn-at-home opportunities, participants learn strategies to reduce debt and increase saving, while improving their financial literacy.

In the foods safety area, Marilyn is ServSafe certified. She teaches food service personnel, volunteers, and consumers how to handle food safely and how to reduce the risk of foodborne illness in a commercial setting or at home. Marilyn conducts workshops on current food preservation techniques for consumers.

She also presents workshops on making healthy food and healthy lifestyle choices.

Marilyn Sullivan has been working with UNH Cooperative Extension in Merrimack County since 1992, providing informal, research-based education and programming in the Family and Consumer Resources area. Her primary concentration is family finance and food safety. Marilyn works with individuals and families, and engages in collaborative efforts with community groups, senior centers, businesses, school personnel, and human service agencies to reach folks seeking to improve their quality of life, and to work on critical issues affecting children, youth, families, and communities.

• Bachelor of Science, Home Economics 1971 Syracuse University

• Masters of Education 1977 Boston State College, University of Massachusetts System

• Association for Financial Counseling, Planning, and Education

• National Extension Association for Family & Consumer Sciences; and the NH affiliate

• Money management and consumer issues across the lifespan. Programs include: Taking Charge of Your Finances, Making Money Work For You, Investing For Your Future, America Saves & New Hampshire Saves, PowerPay Debt Repayment Analysis, Credit Check Up, Don't Get Crushed by Debt, Legal Issues: Are You Prepared?, The Road to Financial Security in Later Life, Getting A Grip On Your Money, Grandma's Yellow Pie Plate (for the distribution of non-titled personal property), Identity Theft, High School Financial Planning Program, and Project C.A.S.H. (Creating A Savings Habit) for college students.

• Food safety education for consumers' home use and food preservation.

• Food service worker training. Programs include: Safety Awareness in the Food Environment (S.A.F.E.) for food service employees, and food safety certification through the SERVSAFE program for food service managers.

• Healthier lifestyle choices for individuals regarding nutrition, physical activity and wellness. Program: Making Lifestyle Changes and Healthier Choices.

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