Extension
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Empowering Youth to Reach Their Full Potential
Empowering Youth
Wanda Paris
Communications and Expressive Arts 4-H Core Curriculum
Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
Youth are a resource that is often untapped for their leadership skills. The Profile of Youth in Kentucky (KCN, 2000) reported that only 25% of youth felt valued by society and only 27% felt they were given useful roles in their community. Lyon County has many teens with strong leadership skills.
Good communication and organizational skills are essential to leadership and a successful life. Adults often report the fear of public speaking as the greatest fear they encounter and indicate that they were never encouraged as youth to speak.
Citizens, youth and adults, should understand the importance of taking leadership roles in governmental and civic organizations as a way to influence change. The Lyon County Extension Service can be the catalyst for preparing citizens for these efforts.
Youth will assume leadership roles for which they are qualified. They will use learned communication skills to present programs to younger students, local organizations, and governmental agencies to influence change in their community.
Youth will participate in trainings to enhance their leadership and communication skills. Participants will learn to fill leadership roles through acquired skills and self-confidence gained in preparation for assuming leadership roles.
Youth will evaluate their personal skills and strengths as they become aware of leadership opportunities in their club and community.
Initial Outcome: Participants will increase knowledge of personal strengths and leadership opportunities.
Indicator: Number of you willing to give speeches and run for office
Method: Formal and in-formal evaluations
Timeline: Throughout 201718
Intermediate Outcome: Youth will participate in trainings and feel confident to take on new roles
Indicator: Number who participate in trainings and take on leadership roles
Method: Formal and in-formal evaluations
Timeline: Throughout 2017-18
Long-term Outcome: Youth will present and assume leadership roles
Indicator: Number who give presentations and fulfill roles
Method: Formal and in-formal evaluations
Timeline: Throughout 2017-18
Audience: 4th & 5th graders
Project or Activity: Classroom Speeches
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: Agent, Teachers, Volunteers
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: 4-H youth
Project or Activity: County & Area Speech Contest
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: Agent, Teachers, Volunteers
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: 4-H Youth
Project or Activity: Photography Club
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: Agent, School Administrators, Volunteers
Date: Throughout 2016-17 School Year
Audience: 4-H Youth
Project or Activity: Craft Club
Content or Curriculum: Craft Projects
Inputs: Agent, School Administrators, Volunteers
Date: Throughout 2017-18 School Year
Audience: 4-H Youth
Project or Activity: Club Officers
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum
Inputs: Agent, Teachers, Volunteers
Date: Throughout 2017-18 School Year
Audience: Middle School Students
Project or Activity: Lyon County Middle School Club
Content or Curriculum: Step up to Leadership, Unlock Your Leadership Potential
Inputs: Agent, School administrators, Teen leaders
Date: Sept 2017 - May 2018
Audience: 4-H Middle School Youth
Project or Activity: Summit
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Leadership Materials
Inputs: Agent, Volunteers, Specialist, STC
Date: March 2018
Audience: 4-H High School Youth
Project or Activity: Teen Retreat
Content or Curriculum: Leadership Materials
Inputs: Agents, Volunteers
Date: Spring 2018
Audience: 4-H High School Youth
Project or Activity: Teen Conference
Content or Curriculum: Leadership Materials
Inputs: Agents, Volunteers, Specialists
Date: June 2018
Audience: 4-H Youth
Project or Activity: Teen Leadership Council, Area Teen Council & Teen Leadership Academy
Content or Curriculum: Leadership Materials & Opportunity
Inputs: Agent, Teens School Administrators
Date: Throughout school year 2017-18
Author: Wanda Paris
Major Program: Leadership 4-H Core Curriculum
A 4-H teen who had not been fully engaged in the 4-H program since 5th grade attended the 4-H Southern Regional Teen Leadership Conference (SRTLC) last year. Making new friends from several states and growing leadership skills were just two of the things that drew him back to SRTLC again this year.A phone call to the 4-H agent volunteering to teach a workshop led to serving on the planning committee for the conference. Working with other teens and adults in true youth-adult partnersh
Author: Wanda Paris
Major Program: Agriculture 4-H Core Curriculum
In response to questions from local people, the Agriculture and 4-H Agents partnered to sponsor an educational meeting covering the laws, new and old, that govern transporting horses and livestock. The meeting, promoted through the 4-H and agriculture programs, was led by Sergeant Jason Morris with the Kentucky State Police. Twenty-one people from eight counties attended the meeting to determine whether they were within the law’s requirements for truck and trailer combinations to haul
Author: Wanda Paris
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Kentucky 4-H Summit seeks to engage middle school aged youth and retain their involvement in 4-H activities through the middle school years, along with empowering youth to become active 4-H leaders on the local and state levels. Objectives of Kentucky 4-H Summit are centered on the developmental needs of middle school aged youth: 4-H Summit aims to provide youth from across the Commonwealth with the opportunity to develop leadership skills through acquiring new knowledge to take back and impleme
