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Leadership Development
Leadership Development
Doggett, Lindsay, Dockery, Wells
Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD)
Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD): Developing Core Leadership Skills
Family and Consumer Science
Building the capacity of volunteer leaders and engaging and developing community leadership are fundamental keys of community strengthening and advancement. Over the last several years, the necessity of empowering community residents to enhance civic responsibility through community ownership is an essential element in implementing local solutions to local issues. Listed by numerous leadership development institutes, the importance of recognizing and building leadership characteristics in community residents is the practical application of becoming a proactive, informed, and prepared citizen and advocate on behalf of Extension.
Local citizens will practice personal leadership skills in clubs, schools, and community outreach.
Volunteer leaders will use improved skills in communication, problem solving, or group process in addressing organizational issues and needs.
Engaged in community outreach and advocacy.
Local citizens increase their knowledge and skills in personal leadership and/or advocacy for Cooperative Extension and the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
KEHA, FCS. 4-H, Ag,and Horticulture Advisory Councils, COA&HES Alumni, and Community Coalition members increase knowledge and skills in organizational leadership.
Long-Term Outcome: Kentucky communities are impacted through local leadership from Extension Office.
Indicators: Leaders feel a sense of ownership to their community. Local leadership works together to solve current and future issues that may arise.
Method: Reports and surveys
Timeline: On-Going
Intermediate Outcome: Extension leaders practice leadership skills within their local community.
Indicator: Increased involvement in extension leadership
Method: reports, council attendance and participation, COA&HES Alumni Association volunteers and mentors
Timeline: On-Going
Initial Outcome: Increase knowledge and skills related to leadership.
Indicator: increased involvement and advocacy related to extension leadership
Method: reports, council attendance and participation, Area COA&HES Alumni Chapters membership, volunteer service and advocacy
Timeline: On-Going
Audience: Homemakers
Project or Activity: KEHA Leader Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: FCS Advisory Council
Content or Curriculum:
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Community Partners
Date: On-Going
Audience: Homemakers
Project or Activity: Homemaker Council
Content or Curriculum: KELD
Input: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, KEHA
Date: On-Going
Audience: Master Gardeners
Project or Activity: Master Gardener classes and Continuing Education
Content or Curriculum: Master Gardener manual
Input: County agents, Specialists, Volunteers
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Seniors and caregivers
Project or Activity: Challenges of Aging workshops; Bluegrass Eldercare Consortium; Grandparents and Relatives Raising Children, Next Best Years
Content or Curriculum: CEC Publications/programs
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Specialists, Volunteers, Kentucky CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: ongoing
Audience: Adult and Teen Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Council
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: 4-H Agents, Specialists, volunteers
Date: quarterly meetings & as needed
Audience: Adult Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Council Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adult Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Club Volunteer Leader Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adult Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Shooting Sports Volunteer Certification Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adult Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Livestock Volunteer Certification Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adult Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Horse Volunteer Certification Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adult and Teen Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Camp Volunteer Leader Training
Content or Curriculum: CES Publications and Resources
Inputs: KY Cooperative Extension Agents, Specialists
Date: On-Going
Audience: Teens & Middle School Youth
Project or Activity: Teen Club & Clover Council
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Leadership curriculum
Inputs: 4-H Agents, Specialists, volunteers
Date: monthly & as needed
Audience: Adults
Project or Activity: Phone calls, e-mails, and office visit customer service opportunities
Content or Curriculum: Available resources through CES publications, specialists, listed curricula and COA&HES Alumni research and program updates
Inputs: Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Agents, Program Assistants, Specialists, Volunteers, Area COA&HES Alumni chapters, Kentucky CES publications; local, state, and federal agencies.
Date: On-Going
Audience: District Board, CEC and Advisory groups
project or activity: Extension Leadership Development
Curriculum: extension leadership materials
inputs: agents, specialists
Date: on going
Audience: Community Residents & Businesses
Project: Local Foods Committee & Coordinator
Content & Curriculum: Collaborating Agencies, LFUCG, Agents, Specialist, COA Office of Development, COA&HES Alumni Association
Date: On-Going
Audience: Adults and students
Project or Activity: Fayette County Cattleman's Association, Fayette County Farm Bureau, Lions Club, Bluegrass fair and local and statewide COA&HES Alumni Association.
Content or Curriculum: Livestock production, field crops, leadership Programs, Judging and recognition, Area alumni chapter's network/recruitment opportunities for COA and FCS.
Date: On-Going
Audience: UK Interns and Mentees
Project or Activity: UK AG&HES Alumni; Extension Intern Program
Content or Curriculum: UK Mentoring publications, handbook
Date All Year
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Leadership
4-H high school youth participated in a virtual leadership conference with youth from surrounding southern states. The Southern Region Teen Leadership Conference, or SRTLC, is held annually to allow youth and adults to develop leadership skills as well as to practice networking skills with 4-H’ers from other states. Fayette County 4-H had one youth participant. One of the main things she said she learned was there are leaders her age and younger that are ready to become leaders and t
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Natural Resources
During an online discussion for a graduate class, a former Fayette County 4-H member detailed how being involved in 4-H as a youth, helped her decide on her college career. Her words were: "4-H was a catalyst for my love of the environment and people. In undergrad, I was part of a group that helped educate elementary students at William Wells Brown elementary afterschool on the environment and sustainability. It was a blast and really fed into my passion for environmental education that foc
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Leadership
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the 2021 Kentucky 4-H Summit could not be implemented in the typical face-to-face format. Kentucky 4-H Program volunteers, members, and professionals decided, based on current events and fundamental developmental needs, that middle school youth needed the opportunity to connect to others and practice their leadership skills through 4-H. If adolescents are to develop the skills necessary for adulthood, they must learn basic skills for everyday life (Carnegie Coun
Author: Diana Doggett
Major Program: Apparel and Textiles (Non-Master Clothing Volunteer)
2020 created both chaos and opportunity for many citizens. During a pandemic, many skilled homemakers were tasked with implementing home management practices for personal, family and community needs. In the middle of a face covering shortage, there became a huge demand for handmade masks. A Fayette County Quilt Guild member and her mother-in-law combined their pre-purchased fabric and sewed face masks daily. After donating hundreds of masks, they began selling their excess to c
Author: Kevin Lindsay
Major Program: Leadership
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down programming in March 2020 youth, families, and communities experienced long-term isolation and alteration of their typical lives related to in and out of school activities. Youth out-of-school time programs, such as 4-H, are essential ecological assets and their disruption during the pandemic may have a major impact on youth’s developmental pathways (Ettekal & Aganas, 2020). For many youth COVID-19 will be the defining issue of their lives
