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4-H Leadership
4-H Leadership
Crystal Smith, Lee Adams (Assistant)
Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Leadership is a needed and important program. The Cooperative Extension Service provides opportunities to youth and families to help improve their leadership ability and create most positive futures. 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 and skills are essential for success in almost any field. The skills associated with leadership are necessary when working in a group or communicating with other.
Youth will serve as teen and adult leaders in their communities, community organizations, and as mentors for younger youth.
Youth will identify and address critical issues that impact the community.
Youth will use leadership and communications skills needed to be successful in the workplace on a daily basis.
Youth will demonstrate leadership, teamwork and communication skills in their day to day lives.
Youth will utilize leadership skills learned during their time in 4-H clubs, activities and other venues with 4-H and other community organizations.
Senior 4-H members will become leaders or co-leaders of a 4-H project blub, day camp or other project based group of younger 4-H members.
Youth will indicate increased awareness of diversity issues in their community and person lives.
Youth will learn the communication, leadership and procedural skills that will allow them to run a meeting.
Youth will increase their knowledge about leadership and how to be an effective leader, team player and communicator.
Youth will learn about leadership styles and will be able to identify positive and negative leadership characteristics.
Youth will learn about diversity and will demonstrate inclusivity.
Youth will acquire decision making skills and gain an appreciation for civic engagement.
Initial Outcome: Youth will learn to communicate and learn how to run meetings and gain and appreciate civic engagement.
Indicator: 4-H Curriculum
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: 2017-2020
Intermediate Outcome: Youth will demonstrate team work and communicate in their daily lives. They will utilize skills learned in 4-H clubs and community and civic activities.
Indicator: 4-H Curriculum
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: 2017-2020
Long-term Outcome: Youth serve as teen and adult leaders in their community and as mentors for younger youth.
Indicator: 4-H Curriculum
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: 2017-2020
Audience: 7-12 grades
Project or Activity: STC, 4-H Preteen Club, 4-H Teen Club
Content or Curriculum: Unlock Your Leadership Potential
Inputs: Agent, Assistants, Volunteers, Specialists, community partners
Date: 2017-2020
Author: Crystal Smith
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Kentucky 4-H Summit is so important to middle school aged youth. 4-H Summit helps to develop young leaders in our counties that become the leaders of tomorrow for the State of Kentucky and the Nation. 4-H maybe the start of a middle 4-her's career in Leadership, Communications, Community Development and so much more in life. The amount of knowledge that middle school youth gain from 4-H Summit and brought back to the home county is priceless. In 2018, 34 counties from across Kentucky partici
Author: Crystal Smith
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
2017 4-H Teen Conference 4-H Teen Conference has been held at the University of Kentucky for 93 years. In 2017, 4-H Teen Conference attracted 536 high school 4-H’ers from 89 counties across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Through 4-H Teen Conference high school 4-H’ers can develop leadership skills, improve communication skills, foster citizenship skills, expand skills & knowledge in specific subjects related to 4-H Core Content areas, gain club and county 4-H program skills,
Author: Crystal Smith
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Letcher County had 1- Gold Achievement Winner that was honored to attend the 2017 4-H National Congress in November in Atlanta Georgia. Nicholas Stevens is a ten year 4-H member that has applied for the achievement application each year that he is eligible and received his Gold this year. In the coming New Year Nicholas plans to apply for his emerald. Nicholas was 1 of 30 youth that attended National 4-H Congress. Nicholas was the first youth that I as Letcher County 4-H Agent had to apply for G
Author: Crystal Smith
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
At the 2018 Volunteer Forum I was not only a part of the committee but I also had the pleasure of taking volunteers from Letcher County and getting to tag-team a class with an awesome volunteer. The class that I thought Community Service Projects and my volunteer April Back-Stevens was great! We worked together and put together a really good power-point and sheets for each person to take back to the county with them. We had a full class of participants. This year Letcher County had four at
Author: Crystal Smith
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
On April 24, 2018 Letcher County 4-H Partnered with multiple agencies across the county to have Safety Day for 2nd grade. The event was held at the Letcher County Extension Office. Safety Day was an awesome event that took 21 volunteers to make this event possible. Letcher County 4-H was so pleased to have such amazing volunteers from around the county that took time-out to show the 2nd grade of our county about safety on many different levels. We would like to thank the following: Neon Amb
