Extension
It Starts With Us
Life Skill Development 2020
Youth and Families
Julie Brown and Janet Turley
21st Century Skills (Career & Workplace Development)
Communications and Expressive Arts
Family and Consumer Science
Extension’s mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of Kentucky citizens through non-formal education for the entire family. Extension agents and volunteers take the results of university research and explain it in such a way that different age groups can learn and apply the information to their own lives. 4-H is a youth organization committed to building outstanding leaders with marketable skills to succeed in today’s global society. Kentucky consistently lags behind other areas of the United States in key household economic indicators, including: personal income, population living below the poverty line, unemployment, and revolving debt.
- Gain and maintain employment through life skill development.
- 4-H youth will successfully enter the workplace and/or institution of higher learning.
- Youth use their communication skills to assume a leadership role in 4-H or other organizations.
- Youth construct and give a speech that has a clear introduction, body and closing.
- Youth will demonstrate an increased level of confidence when presenting in front of groups
- Utilize and practice life skills in projects and life situations
- Practice responsible consumer and financial decision-making
- Adopt habits and skills that contribute toward employability in the future
- Youth will enroll in 4-H Clubs
- Youth and adults will understand the decision-making process
- Youth and adults gain skills in setting a goal and developing a plan of action
- Youth will gain knowledge in researching, preparing and presenting a speech or demonstration
- Gain knowledge and develop skills in Family & Consumer Sciences projects and programs
- Increase knowledge and skills to build upon soft skills
Outcome:
- Youth plan and implement a communication and expressive arts project (speech, demonstration, drama, photography, etc)
- Youth who engage in FCS project Work
Indicator:
- Youth complete a communication and expressive arts project
- Youth complete a FCS Project
Method:
- 4-H Common Measures Experience Survey
- Number of youth who completed a speech or demonstration? (PRACTICE)
- Number of youth who completed a state fair arts, photography, or other visual arts project? (PRACTICE)
- Number of youth who indicated “yes or usually” to the Common Measures Experience Survey Question #6 “Is 4-H A place where you get to figure out things for yourself?” (SEEC)
- Number of youth who indicated “yes or usually” to the Common Measures Experience Survey Question #13 “Is 4-H a place where you have a chance to be a leader?” (SEEC)
Audience: Warren County 4-H Members
Project or Activity: 4-H Clubs
Content or Curriculum: Warren County 4-H Club Leader Notebook, project books
Inputs: Volunteers, facilities, 4-H Handbook, promotion items, project books
Date: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Audience: Warren County Youth
Project or Activity: 4-H Career Shadowing Program
Content or Curriculum: Career project book
Inputs: Agent’s Time, business hosts, orientation
Date: October 2020 – March 2021
Audience: Warren County 7th-12th Grade Students
Project or Activity: 4-H Reality Store
Content or Curriculum: Reality Store Curriculum
Inputs: Agent’s Time, volunteer time, facilities, evaluations, information letters, orientation, signs
Date: Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Audience: Warren County 4th-6th Grade Students
Project or Activity: 4-H Dollars & Sense
Content or Curriculum: Dollars & Sense Curriculum
Inputs: Agent’s Time, volunteer time, facilities, evaluations, information letters, orientation, signs
Date: September 2020 – May 2021
Audience: 4-H Members (5-18 year olds)
Project or Activity: 4-H Communications Program
Content or Curriculum Communication Curriculum
Inputs: Agent’s Time, judges, room leaders, facilities, evaluations, information letters, score sheets, food
Date: July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Audience: High School Students
Project: Adulting 101
Content or Curriculum: FCS curriculum, It’s Your Reality Curriculum
Inputs: Volunteers, facilities, other resources
Date: Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Audience: High School Students and Parents
Project: College/Career Readiness
Content or Curriculum: College & Technical School Resources
Inputs: Agent’s time, College & Technical School Personal, Mass Media
Date: Fall 2021
Audience: 4th -12th grade students
Projects: Sewing Program
Content or Curriculum: Sewing Project Books
Inputs: Volunteer Time, Sewing Curriculum
Dates: Fall 2020-Spring 2021
Audience: 4th-12th grade students
Projects: Cooking Program
Content or Curriculum: Teen Cruise, KY Proud Recipes, 4-H Cooking Curriculum, Super Star Chef
Inputs: Volunteer Time, Cooking Supplies
Dates: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021
Audience: 6th-12th grade students
Project: Expressive/Fine Arts
Content or Curriculum: Expressive/Fine Arts Curriculum
Inputs: Volunteer Time, supplies
Dates: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021
Author: Kristi Shive
Major Program: Financial Education - General
More than 670,000 Kentuckians — roughly one-third of the commonwealth's workforce — filed for unemployment insurance for the first time from the week ending March 14 through the week ending May 2 in 2019. The coronavirus pandemic put a bigger share of Kentucky's workforce out of a job than almost any other state in America. In order to address the multidisciplinary financial repercussions of COVID-19; Kristi Shive, Warren County Family and Consumer Sciences Agent, hosted a Vi
Author: Julie Brown
Major Program: Family and Consumer Science
The pandemic of 2020 brought our entire nation to a screeching halt. Except for first responders, the United States and much of the world were on lock-down for much of the spring and summer. As summer turned into fall and the end of COVID-19 not in sight, a group of agents banded together to see how they could continue to meet the needs of their 4-H clientele. And thus, a new experiment of hosting district virtual 4-H clubs was born. This new concept extended the opportunity to learn high qualit
Author: Julie Brown
Major Program: Leadership
One of the missions of the 4-H Program is to develop leaders. The Warren County 4-H Program has an active 4-H Leadership Club which encourages youth to identify problems in the community and find solutions. During the pandemic many resources for learning were closed including libraries. Access to books for limited resource students were unattainable. In June/July 2020, one Warren County 4-H teen realized there was a need in the community to provide books to low income children so that they could
