About Family and Consumer Sciences
Courtney J. Schoessow, M.P.H.
Extension Program Specialist, Health
2251 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2251
phone: (979) 458-4224
fax: (979) 845-6496
cjschoessow@ag.tamu.edu
Courtney Schoessow is an Extension Program Specialist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. Her specialty is community-focused health education and development. She is co-author of Do Well, Be Well with Diabetes, a low-literacy, multi-cultural curriculum on type 2 diabetes; and Put it Outside, a low-literacy, multi-cultural curriculum that encourages parents who smoke to take their smoking outside and away from their children. She is also the author of Hallelujah to Health, a faith-based low-literacy curriculum for African American women to increase breast and cervical screening rates.
Courtney is the project coordinator for the Cancer Risk Reduction Education project funded by the Texas Cancer Council. This project is aimed at addressing the continuous need for awareness building, education, and supportive environmental modifications to enable Texans to protect their skin from sun exposure, reduce the risk and seek early detection of cervical cancer, and seek early detection of prostate cancer.
Courtney received a Master’s degree from the University of Hawaii in Public Health, with a specialization in Community Health Development and Education and a sub-specialization in International Health. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Texas Woman’s University. Her professional experience before Extension includes being the Health Education and Rural Outreach program coordinator for the School of Rural Public Health at Texas A&M University, a community health educator for Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services, a certified breast-feeding educator, and graduate assistant for the University of Hawaii working with mental health issues. She is currently a member of the American Diabetes Association, Epsilon Sigma Phi, and the the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Specialists’ Association.
