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Title:
4-H Leadership
MAP:
Leadership Education and Volunteer Development
Agents Involved:
Steve Conrad, Christy Eastwood, Gina Ligon
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Leadership
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Leadership is a needed and important programming emphasis in Kentucky 4-H.  The Cooperative Extension Service provides opportunities for youth and families to help improve their leadership ability and create a positive impact on their future.  Leadership opportunities for youth create a setting that reduces the access of youth to risk factors that can negatively impact their success. 

Basic leadership knowledge & skills are essential for success in almost any field.  The skills associated with leadership are necessary when working in a group or communicating with others.  Employers look for leadership skills in future employees.   Developing leadership in the youth and adults who are involved in the 4-H program is a priority.  By assisting the development of leadership skills in today’s youth, we improve their ability to face the challenges of tomorrow (Unlock Your Leadership Potential, University of Florida, 2017). 

Kentucky 4-H provides opportunities for youth to actively engage locally and globally to promote life skills [such as leadership] that prepare them for the global marketplace. Through 4-H youth exercise critical thinking skills, learn to appreciate diversity, practice tolerance, develop socio-emotionally, and strive to contribute to their environment (United States Department of Education International Affairs Office of International Strategy).  4-H participants rate their leadership life skills above average, have a positive view of their leadership ability, and have a positive attitude toward diversity and acceptance of others (Locke, Boyd, Fraze, and Howard, 2007).    

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Success Stories

4-H Teen Survival Camp

Author: Gina Ligon

Major Program: Leadership

4-H Teen Survival Camp

 4-H Teen Survival Camp was trialed in 2021 as a one-day camp for teenagers.   After the one-day camp, it was brought to our attention, teen programs in our county was lacking.  The 4-H Teen Survival class began filling and waiting list was created.   Parents of the community informed us they were looking for summer outdoor programs.    In 2022, Lacey Kessell the Boone County Environmental Agent, Gina Ligon a Boone County 4-H Youth and Development Agent, and Ch

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