Ballard County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2018





2005 - Empowering Community Leaders (general)
2005.1) 104

Number of individuals reporting improved knowledge, opinions, skills, and/or aspirations (personal and interpersonal leadership, organizational leadership, community leadership, public policy/governmental process, etc.)

2005.2) 45

Number of individuals who practice personal and interpersonal leadership skills in clubs, schools and community outreach

2005.3) 89

Number of individuals who use communication, problem solving or group process skills to address organizational issues and need

2005.4) 16

Number of individuals addressing community problems by assessing community needs, developing and implementing solutions

2005.5) 22

Number of Extension empowered individuals engaged in existing coalitions or organizations to address a significant community issue

2005.6) 0

Number of Extension empowered individuals organizing new coalitions or organizations to address a significant community issue

2005.7) 0

Number of community problems resolved through actively engaged local leaders



Success Stories

Leadership Ballard

Author: Paula Jerrell

Major Program: Empowering Community Leaders (general)

We have been having Leadership Ballard for 19 years and this agent has been taking youth to Frankfort to Page longer than that.  I heard from a former 4-Her today, who is now in law school at UK.  She contacted me to let me know she had been involved in some legislation in Frankfort and she wanted to share the following with me, "Thank you for taking me up to Frankfort numerous times while I was in school!! In the last year I worked to get a bill written, and it was signed into la

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Empowering Community & Extension Leaders

Author: Paula Jerrell

Major Program: Empowering Community Leaders (general)

Cooperative Extension depends on the development and commitment of leadership of various ages.  We rely on grassroots leadership to provide educational programs, to help direct organizations, to be Extension advocates with policy makers and more.  Leadership lessons range from learning the basics of Parliamentary Procedure in the 4th grade to learning and understanding our own leadership styles and how it relates to others to learning to talk with policy makers about issues important t

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