Enhancing Personal Development through Life SkillsPlan of Work

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Fulton County CES

Title:
Enhancing Personal Development through Life Skills
MAP:
Building Youth Life Skills
Agents Involved:
B. Cheirs, A. McCoy
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Financial Education - General
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Communications and Expressive Arts
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Agriculture
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Health
Situation:

In order for individuals to reach their fullest potential in life, they need the opportunity to learn how to become self sufficient and practice responsibility. The Fulton County 4-H Youth Development program provides many opportunities for youth to become engaged in their community while developing personal, social, and economic assets which will assist in positive adult development.


Utilizing the Targeting Life Skills model (Hendricks 1998) and teaching skills under the category of Giving, Working, Being, Living, Thinking, Managing, Relating and Caring, youth will become competent, capable and contributing individuals, while Practical Life skills help them to be competitive in the world.

Long-Term Outcomes:

Fulton County youth will utilize life skills gained through education and Extension programs to reach their full potential as individuals, family members, and citizens in the community.

Youth will gain communication and decision-making skills that allow them to be competitive members of the current and future workforce.

Youth will gain practice of practical living skills that will make them more effective adults with practice of experience such as cooking and childcare.

Fulton County youth will become contributing members of society.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Youth will communicate more effectively with more self confidence.

Youth will practice safe cooking skills at home.

Youth will use self care skills to become competent members of society.

Youth will utilize information obtained through Extension Programming to increase quality of life.

Youth will employ good decision making techniques in personal relationships.

Initial Outcomes:

Youth will develop personal care skills to take care of mind and body.

Youth will increase knowledge of cooking, childcare, budgeting, and sewing.

Youth will develop knowledge of communication principles and public speaking skills.

Youth will increase knowledge of the facts of alcohol and tobacco dangers.

Youth will become aware of good character (honesty, trustworthiness, good sportsmanship, etc.)

Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: Indicator: Youth will participate in events held at the schools and Extension office

Indicator: Youth will attend specific programming

Method: Sign in sheets

Timeline: program year & ongoing


Intermediate Outcome: Youth will change habits and behaviors

Indicator: Youth will begin to incorporate learned behaviors

Method: Observing behaviors at school, club meetings, and home

Timeline: Program year & ongoing


Long-term Outcome: Youth will practice skills and knowledge learned through 4-H and Extension programming.

Indicator: Youth will implement skills learned

Method: Implementation by students in the community, schools, and home

Timeline: Program year & ongoing

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: Sewing

Content or Curriculum: State Fair projects

Inputs: MCV, Parents, Community Leaders

Date: Current Program Year


Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: Cooking Clubs

Content or Curriculum: Jump into Food and Fitness, Teen Cuisine, Food Preservation, other Extension curricula

Inputs: Agents, Master Gardeners, Parents, Community Volunteers

Date: Current Program Year



Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: Shooting Sports Club

Content or Curriculum: Ky Shooting Sports Program

Inputs: Certified Leaders, parents

Date: Spring and Summer



Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: 4-H Speeches and Demonstrations

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Communications Day

Inputs: Agent, Community Volunteers for judges, Schools

Date: Spring and Summer



Audience: 3rd grade classrooms

Project or Activity: 4-H Chick Incubation

Content or Curriculum: Embryology and Chick Incubation in the Classroom

Inputs: Agent, Schools

Date: Spring


Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: 4-H Babysitting

Content or Curriculum: Kentucky 4-H Babysitting 4 Fun and 4 Profit

Inputs: Health Dept, Red Cross, Hospital, 4-H, Parents, FC Area Technology Health Sciences program

Date: current program year



Audience: 9th graders

Project or Activity: Truth and Consequences Event

Content or Curriculum: Truth and Consequences

Inputs: Community Leaders, area businesses, schools, adult volunteers, parents

Date: Winter


Audience: Middle School Age

Project or Activity: Lifeskills and prevention

Content or Curriculum: Botvin Skills Training

Inputs: FCS, 4-H

Date: Current school year


Audience: Youth and Adult Inmates

Project or Activity: 4-H LIFE

Content or Curriculum: 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, jail Staff 

Date: Program Year



Audience: 4-H Age

Project or Activity: 4-H Camp

Content or Curriculum: camping program

Inputs: 4-H Agent, Volunteers

Date: every summer



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Major Program: Camping

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Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Family and Consumer Science

The 4-H Cloverbud program is designed to be noncompetitive, educational, activity-based, cooperative learning centered, safe, developmentally age appropriate, and success-oriented. By allowing children between the ages of 5-8 to participate in a positive learning experiences, it helps them to build life skills at a younger age.The 2021-2022 4-H Cloverbud program began in October. Sixteen Kindergartners through 3rd graders attend each month. Beginning in person meetings have been wonderful so far

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4-H Summit

Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Leadership

According to research, middle school is a time where young people find their place in this world, they are exploring where their strengths and interests align (Fagell. P.L., 2019). Therefore, it is imperative to provide positive experiences where young people may explore the world in a safe environment. Historically, there is a decline in enrollment numbers throughout the middle school years in 4-H programming, Kentucky 4-H hosts the Kentucky 4-H Summit Leadership Conference for middle schoolers

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