Develop Individual Youth and Adults for Leadership Volunteer Roles Plan of Work

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Metcalfe County CES

Title:
Develop Individual Youth and Adults for Leadership Volunteer Roles
MAP:
Engaged Communities
Agents Involved:
Bell, Blankenship, Branstetter
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Kentucky Extension Homemaker Association
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD): Developing Core Leadership Skills
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Community Leadership Development
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Volunteer Development
Situation:

Volunteers are important in building engaged and empowered communities.  

The Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association mission is to improve the quality of life for families and communities through education, leadership development and volunteer service. With membership totaling more than 13,000 statewide, members are engaged leaders and active volunteers. 

4-H Youth and Volunteer Leadership is about: 

Work within our community (club/county/state or beyond) to become an engaged leader who can make a difference.


Volunteers make up the Metcalfe County Ag Development Council and are important in overseeing the use and distribution of Ag Development Funds.

Long-Term Outcomes:

KEHA members, 4-H volunteers, and Council members serve as active Extension and community volunteers engaged in addressing community needs.

Intermediate Outcomes:

Leaders will practice personal leadership skills through leadership roles at the club, county, area and/or state level.

The number of volunteer service hours reported annually for KEHA, Extension and Community activities will increase.

Initial Outcomes:

Members and volunteers will gain organizational knowledge through annual officer and chairman training.

Members and volunteers will increase knowledge and skills in personal leadership through club lessons and special interest workshops.

Youth and Volunteers will serve as teen and adult leaders in our community, organizations, and as mentors for younger youth. Youth will be productive, contributing adults in the future, leadership and communications skills needed to be successful in the workplace on a daily basis

Evaluation:

Outcome: Members and volunteers will increase knowledge and skills in personal leadership through club lessons and special interest workshops.

Indicator:  Number of individuals reporting improved personal and interpersonal leadership knowledge and/or Number of individuals reporting improved personal and interpersonal leadership skills.

Method: end of program evaluations, surveys

Timeline:  on-going


Outcome: Leaders will practice personal leadership skills through leadership roles at the club, county, area and/or state level.

Indicator:  Number of members who utilized knowledge gained through officer training to fulfill a leadership role at the club, county, area and/or state level.

Method: Observation, review of officer directories

Timeline:  on-going


Long Term Outcome: Youth and Volunteers will serve as teen and adult leaders in our community, organizations, and as mentors for younger youth. They will be productive, contributing adults in the future, leadership and communications skills needed to be successful in the workplace on a daily basis.

Indicator: Number of volunteers and youth in leadership and communication roles

Method: Observation, Pre and Post Written Test

Timeline: On Going

Learning Opportunities:

Audience:  Metcalfe County Extension Homemakers 

Project or Activity:   KEHA Leader Training and/or Special Interest Workshops                                                                                                                                           Content or Curriculum: KELD Curriculum, FCS Extension Lesson Resources, FCS CurriculumInputs: FCS Agents, State Advisors

Date: 9 annual sessions


Audience:  Metcalfe County Extension Homemakers 

Project or Activity:   MCA Area Meeting and KEHA State Meeting                                                                Content or Curriculum: Officer Training & Educational Chairman Workshops                                                                                                              Inputs: FCS Agents, Area Advisors, State Advisors

Date: Annually, KEHA in spring and MCA in Fall


Audience: Metcalfe Co. Extension Council ANR, FCS & 4 – H YD Adv. Cncls.

Project or Activity: Twice annual planning meetings

Content or Curriculum: KELD, POW, Annual County Report, Publications, Legislative update info etc…

Inputs: Extension Agents, State specialists, D- 6 Director, Extension office resources

Date: Annually in Spring and Fall


Audience: 4-H Volunteers

Project or Activity: 4-H Volunteer Orientation

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office, Volunteers

Date: Fall 


Audience: 4-H Youth

Project or Activity: 4-H Officer Orientation

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office

Date: Fall


Audience: 4-H Youth

Project or Activity: 4-H Club meetings

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office

Date: on going


Audience: 4-H Council

Project or Activity: Monthly Meetings

Content or Curriculum: Volunteer Development

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office, Community Partners, Volunteers

Date: on Going


Audience: 4-H Youth

Project or Activity: 4-H Communications and Expressive Arts

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office, Volunteers

Date: August-May


Audience: 4-H Youth

Project or Activity: Metcalfe County TAG

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Curriculum

Inputs: Agent, Extension Office, Community Partners

Date: August-May



Audience: AG Development Council

Project or Activity: Ag Development Funds

Content or Curriculum: GOAP

Inputs: Agent, Council Members GOAP

Date: Ongoing



Success Stories

4-H Thank you for Making Me the Person I am Today

Author: Amy Branstetter

Major Program: Leadership

From my first cow camp all the way to right now as Council Secretary, 4-H has been a big part of my life. I can remember being younger out at Wisdom Faith Christian Academy when my 4-H Agent or any of the others from the Extension office would come, they would always call out the older classes for their club meeting, for us to go and participate in what the activity was for the day. I can remember it was always the older kids that got to have their club meetings. So when I was little we would al

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4-H and PAT making a difference

Author: Amy Branstetter

Major Program: Communications and Expressive Arts

Metcalfe County High School sophomore has found herself on stage all over the area, performing for a variety of organizations. That ever-growing list has included the Kentucky 4-H Performing Arts Troupe and Leadership Board for the past two years. It’s perhaps an unusual departure for a national organization with its roots steeped for decades in agriculture, but it is part of a new generation of 4-H activities designed to draw more youth to the organization.  “When people think

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4-H Summit Success

Author: Amy Branstetter

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 Council f

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Legacy Dairy

Author: Amy Branstetter

Major Program: Agriculture

The Mammoth Cave area is the heart of the dairy industry in Kentucky. Over 50% of the state’s total dairies and over 75% of the state’s total dairy cattle are located in south central Kentucky.  Agents from this area joined forces to bring an educational video that not only focuses on dairy production but adding value past the farm gate.   Legacy Dairy owned by the Jones family, bottles the milk from their cows right on the farm.  The non-homogenize

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Gardening and Outdoor Activity for Physical and Mental Healthiness

Author: Lynn Blankenship

Major Program: Community Gardens and Horticulture Therapy

This FCS Agent created a comprehensive curriculum and evaluation, for the April 2021 Mammoth Cave Area Homemakers Leader training, with the theme of Gardening and Outdoor Activity for Physical and Mental Healthiness.  This FCS Agent was the first to travel to all ten Counties post COVID, to deliver an approved, COVID safe monthly area Homemaker Leader Training in person, to 64 Homemaker Leaders.  These leader volunteers then delivered the lesson to the members of their Homemaker Clubs,

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