Success Stories By MajorProgram FY2025Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025





FCS Day Camp Enhances Life Skills and Mentorship Among Youth

Author: Marla Stillwell

Major Program: Workforce Preparation - FCS

As a result of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Community Needs Assessment (2023), a priority for building and developing life skills among youth has been identified as a need in LaRue County.  The cultivation of employee soft skills, life skills enhancement, and the facilitation of peer-to-peer and peer-mentor relationships emerge as paramount objectives for the community.  In an effort to integrate instruction on employee soft skills, encompassing etiquette refinement and being abl

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Resume and Job Application Workshop for Students

Author: Jordan Crain

Major Program: Workforce Preparation - FCS

In an effort to prepare elementary school students for the future and help with workplace success, the Family Resource Youth Service Center Director created Wildcat Workforce for one Barren County Elementary School. With this, the Barren County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent and the Barren County Program Assistant partnered with the Family Resource Youth Service Center Director and Eastern Elementary School to offer a Job Application and Resume Workshop for Sixth Grade Students.During the Wo

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