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



Success Stories

Culinary Challenge

Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Family and Consumer Science

The 4-H Culinary Challenge is a state level event that prepares youth to prepare a dish using specific ingredients for judges.  Youth will increase their knowledge of food and nutrition, master kitchen safety skills, use creativity to present food and increase public speaking skills. This year, Fulton County had a team of six (ended with four- one not being of age to compete) to join the culinary challenge program. The meetings began in June and they met two to three times a week for one an

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Holiday Baking Class

Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Family and Consumer Science

Holiday Baking Class

According to Illinois Extension, Cooking With Children, cooking with children is a great way to encourage trying new foods and a way to develop important life skills at a young age and become independent later in life. The FCS agent and 4-H agent decided to host a day baking class for ages eight to twelve years old for two different days. Classes filled up really quickly because it was held over Christmas break.The classes consisted of food and kitchen safety, following directions (measuring, re

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Spring Into Green: Outdoor Living

Author: Anna Morgan

Major Program: Active Living and Health Promotions General

Spring into Green: Outdoor Living, was hosted by the Purchase Area Family and Consumer Science agents at the Graves County Extension Office. Speakers at this year’s event discussed topics related to the outdoors. Topics discussed included ‘Cooking in the Outdoors’ with Champion Foods Volunteer Riff Turner, ‘Perennials and Wood Shrubs for Cut Flower Arrangements’ with Martha White, and ‘Plant Propagation’ with Lindsay Bowles. The goal of this event was to

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Health Rocks

Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Substance Use and Mental Health – 4-H Youth Development

The Health Rocks curriculum is aimed at eight to sixteen year olds reducing tobacco, alcohol, and drug use. 4-H has worked for decades to help youth develop skill such as communicating with others, being responsible decision makers, and developing an internal strength to resist risky behaviors. The Health Rocks curricula is designed to use teen volunteer leaders for effectiveness. Thanks to a grant through the State 4-H Office for putting this issue at the forefront. The 4-H Agent contacted two

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Keeping the Cost of Camp Low.

Author: Bernita Cheirs

Major Program: Camping

According to the U.S. Census the median household income in Fulton County is $33,567. The cost for one 4-Her to attend 4-H Summer Camp is $275 plus the cost of transportation. Many families in Fulton County do not have the resources to allow their children to attend 4-H Camp. Even if the cost of 4-H Camp was only $200, many families would find it difficult to come up with the extra money. It isn’t that 4-H Camp is too expensive. It costs less than many other camps, but the resources that o

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