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Madge Alberts
Madge
Alberts is Program Coordinator for the Children, Youth and Family
Consortium. In this role, Madge works with all staff, as well as faculty
and community partners, to look at ongoing ways the Consortium can
link community needs and University resources. This includes communication
and policy efforts, as well as creating linkages, identifying needs
or convening special work groups.
Before
joining the Consortium, Madge was a family development specialist
with the University of Minnesota Extension Service, most recently
as its Children, Youth and Families Program Leader. From 1989 until
1996, Madge was a county Extension Educator in Dodge County, Minnesota,
just west of Rochester, where she specialized in Family Development
(one of Extension's 10 specializations at the time).
Madge
holds a bachelor's degeree in Home Economics (minor in music; undeclared
minor in psychology) from UMD. In addition, she completed a Master
of Arts at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities in New Brighton.
Her degree program was religious studies, with focus in pastoral care
and counseling. Research in which Madge has been involved includes
perceptions of quality of life in dairy farm families; research on
the scope and nature of Extension program's with children, youth and
families; Extension's role, historically, with children, youth and
families. She is a frequent speaker around the state on issues related
to rural families, change and loss, integrating work and family, strengthening
and supporting marriage, the effects of divorce on children, and other
topics related to families.
Her
home is still in Dodge County where her husband is a dairy producer,
and she commutes to the CYFC's office on the Minneapolis campus.
Staff
Karen Cadigan, Ed.S, Policy Director
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