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Title:
Developing leadership skills- youth NEW
MAP:
Leadership Development & Community Engagement
Agents Involved:
Spurgeon, Roy
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Leadership
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Agriculture and Extension Leadership Development
Situation:

Leadership is a needed and important programming emphasis in Kentucky 4-H.  The Cooperative Extension Service provides opportunities for youth and families to help improve their leadership ability and create a positive impact on their future.  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 & skills are essential for success in almost any field.  The skills associated with leadership are necessary when working in a group or communicating with others.  Employers look for leadership skills in future employees.  Developing leadership in the youth and adults who are involved in the 4-H program is a priority.  By assisting the development of leadership skills in today’s youth, we improve their ability to face the challenges of tomorrow (Unlock Your Leadership Potential, University of Florida, 2017). 

Kentucky 4-H provides opportunities for youth to actively engage locally and globally to promote life skills [such as leadership] that prepare them for the global marketplace. Through 4-H youth exercise critical thinking skills, learn to appreciate diversity, practice tolerance, develop socio-emotionally, and strive to contribute to their environment (United States Department of Education International Affairs Office of International Strategy).  4-H participants rate their leadership life skills above average, have a positive view of their leadership ability, and have a positive attitude toward diversity and acceptance of others (Locke, Boyd, Fraze, and Howard, 2007).   

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Evaluation:

Initial Outcome: 

Youth become more engaged as a leader in their community (planning a service project, serving as a mentor, increasing participation in local/state/national levels)

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Method:

Timeline: Year-Round


Intermediate Outcome:

Indicator: # Youth serving in leadership roles

Method:

Timeline: Year-Round


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Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Youth ages 9-18 

Project or Activity: Speech and Demonstration 

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Communications Curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, 4-H Adult Volunteers, Teachers 

Date: school year 

 

Audience: Youth ages 9-18 

Project or Activity: School Clubs; school enrichment 

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Core Curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, Teachers 

Date: school year 

 

Audience: Middle School Students 

Project or Activity: Afterschool, Teen Summit 

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Art curriculum, Teen Leadership, 4-H Photography curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, 4-H Adult Volunteers 

Date: September-May 

 

Audience: High School Juniors/Seniors 

Project or Activity: APES, KY Youth Seminar 

Content or Curriculum: 4-H APES Curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, 4-H Adult Volunteers, counselors 

Date: school year 

 

Audience: High School Students (freshmen-Senior) 

Project or Activity: Capitol Experience, Teen Council, Teen Conference 

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Core Curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, 4-H Adult Volunteers, teachers 

Date: school year 


Audience: High School Students (freshmen-Senior) 

Project or Activity: Teen Leadership Program

Content or Curriculum: 4-H Core Curriculum 

Inputs: 4-H Agent, 4-H Adult Volunteers, teachers 

Date: school year (September - April) Monthly



Success Stories

Kentucky 4-H Shooting Sports State Competition 2024

Author: Abigail Roy

Major Program: Natural Resources

The annual KY 4-H Shooting Sports State Competition, the culminating event for youth participating in the 4-H shooting sports program was hosted at the Bluegrass Sportsmen’s League in Wilmore, KY on Saturday, Sept. 7th and at the Central KY Gun Club in Berea, KY on Sunday, Sept. 8th. Over the course of the weekend over 1,000 youth, their families, and county coaches, volunteers and 4-H agents gathered to take part in the event. This competition provides a goal for youth to work towards thr

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