Extension
It Starts With Us
Leadership Development
Empowering Community Leaders
May, Wooten, Gibson
Kentucky Extension Homemaker Association
Empowering Community Leaders (general)
Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Local Food System Development and Mapping
Building the capacity of volunteer leaders is critical for the sustainability of communities that support and strengthen families. This statement as never been more true than now with the downturn in the economy in eastern Kentucky do to the lost of jobs, particularly in the coal industry. Over the last 5 years, Perry County has seen a 2% decline in population. This is largely do to people having to leave the County to find jobs. It's going to take strong leadership to reverse this trend.
Extension is committed to engaging, educating, and empowering local citizens to investigate issues by making responsible decisions, and take ownership of solutions. Cooperative Extension offers opportunities for leadership through program councils, County Extension Councils, youth development, agriculture development, and family and consumer science programming. Leadership skills, such as goal-setting, problem-solving and sound decision-making, are not just needed for leaders- these skills are needed for success in today's world. (MacNeil, 2000). Helping youth develop leadership competencies makes them better able to solve community problems and enhances their civic participation. (O'Brien & Kohlmeier, 2003). Engaged young people help to re-energize adults and counteract negative stereotypes of youth when they are successfully engaged in leadership within their communities (Zeldin, &Camino, 1999;Fiscus, 2003).
Participants become leaders in the community.
Youth will become productive, engaged, and informed contributing adults.
Youth will identify and address critical issues that impact their communities.
Participants start to internalize leadership skills
Youth will demonstrate leadership, teamwork, and communication skills in their everyday lives.
Participants attend programs and events to build self-confidence.
Youth will learn about leadership styles and will be able to identify positive and negative leadership characteristics.
Youth will acquire decision-making skills and gain an appreciation for civic engagement.
Outcome: Youth learn to identify leadership skills and begin to understand their own strengthens
Indicator: Number of youth participating that succeed in acquiring knowledge of desirable leadership traits
Method: survey
Timeline: at the conclusion of workshop or training
Intermediate Outcome: Youth are challenged to serve as mentors to younger youth
Indicator: Number of youth to report successful encounters in presenting programs to others, reports from leaders that have observed them
Method: surveys
Timeline: at the conclusion of the program
Long-term Outcome: Youth that serve in community capacities, on councils, in leadership roles
Indicator: observations, results, number of roles and depth of service
Method: self reporting, interactions with community leaders,
Timeline: year round
Initial Outcome: New Leadership
Indicator: Number of participants becoming leaders
Method: Pre- and Post-test Evaluation
Timeline: 2016-2020
Audience: Middle School Teens
Project or Activity: Leadership training in character Ed, team building, working with younger youth
Content or Curriculum: Character Counts, Talking with TJ,
Inputs: program materials, school partners, training period, supervision, teens, agent
Date: Fall 2016
Audience: Middle and High School aged youth
Project or Activity: Leadership, Communications development, Teamwork Skills development
Content or Curriculum: Unlock Your Leadership, Teambuilding, WeConnect, citizenship curricula
Inputs: facility, presenters, supplies, school partners, Issues Conference, Summit Conference, Teen Conference, camp
Date:
Audience: Homemakers and General public
Project or Activity: Monthly Homemaker Lessons
Content or Curriculum: KEHA
Inputs: agents, specialists
Date: Monthly
Audience: Homemakers, Youth, General public
Project or Activity: Come Sew With Us
Content or Curriculum: Leader designed programs
Inputs: agents, Master Clothing Volunteers
Date: Spring 2017
Audience: Arts Council members
Project or Activity: Arts Council meetings and events
Content or Curriculum: Developed by members
Inputs: agent, community members
Date: Monthly
Audience: Agricultural Development, Horticultural and Agricultural Councils
Project or Activity: Members attend annual meetings and leadership training opportunities. Members will take a leadership role in establishing an Extension Annex Facility.
Content or Curriculum: Leaders and agent will prioritize programming in Agriculture and develop a plan to promote growth in all sectors of agriculture in Perry County to help grow the local economy.
Inputs: agents, volunteers, council members
Dates: all year
Audience: Persons involved in Agritourism
Project or Activity: promote and expand Agritourism in Perry County
Content or Curriculum : work with all involved or interested in Agritourism and provide them assistance in marketing, finances and planning.
Inputs: Agent, Specialist, Community resources
Date: Summer months
Audience: Homemakers
Project or Activity: Area Homemaker Leader Training
Content or Curriculum: KEHA
Inputs: agents, specialists
Date: August 2016
Author: Jan Gibson
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Not unlike the benefits of job shadwoing for career exploration, youth engaged in 4-H project work get to try out and develop specific skills and interests. Many times this helps them narrow down the career clusters that they would like to pursue in post-secondary education and eventually employement. This very thing has happened for 14 year old Chloe. Five years ago, Chloe signed up for the 4-H foods prep classes. She entered her completed foods project in the county and
Author: Glenna Wooten
Major Program: Master Clothing Volunteer
Quicksand Area Master Clothing VolunteersThe Quicksand Area located in southeastern Kentucky proudly boasts seven Master Clothing Volunteers. These volunteers are supervised by the Area Contact agent and are under the direct supervision of the Family and Consumer Sciences Agents in their counties. These 7 volunteers have spent 165 hours in training to enhance their sewing skills during the past year so they will be able to teach skills and techniques in their counties and in the area. Each
Author: Jan Gibson
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Update on some the teen volunteers as they grow in leadership and communication skills:Youth in 8th grade and above are invited to participate in the county 4-H teen group. This year the teens have been particularly active in community service projects in the community. This is due to the enthusiasm of the two county STC members and their leadership. The group volunteered to assist the County Foundation in the annual fund-raising charity run as trail stations. One complet
Author: Jan Gibson
Major Program: Communications and Expressive Arts 4-H Core Curriculum
October has become the traditional month for the annual 4-H Talk Meet. Grateful for the facilities at Hazard Community and Technical College as this program attracted 245 youth for speech competition. This program fosters matery by teaching youth how to effectively communicate, belonging by giving they the opportunity to work with others, independence by allowing them to present a speech in front of the their peers and genoristy by fostering a love of community. And the communi
