Author: Valerie Stewart
Major Program: Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD): Developing Core Leadership Skills
4-H youth development programs within Extension depend heavily on adult volunteers and provide extensive education to volunteer leaders. 4-H traditionally focuses on positive youth development, but adult volunteers are the mainstay of the programs. A study of Ohio 4-H agents revealed that they believed orienting volunteers is important but lack information on whether their training programs or teaching strategies are effective (Deppe & Culp, 2001). Non-systematic training and the lack of vol
Author: Annette Heisdorffer
Building the leadership skills of local citizens is critical for the community to address issues faced by the citizens.The “Leading Meetings Effectively” series, developed as a continuation of leadership building based on requests from clientele, was held on every Tuesday in February, 2018.The session on “Roberts Rules of Order Made Easy” was taught by the Horticulture Agent with the assistance of the Extension Master Gardeners at a local community center for the public.
Author: Danielle Barrett
Knox County Extension works to strengthen programs and better serve the residents of Knox County. As part of this process, the County Extension Council, Extension District Board and county agents worked to identify ways to improve Extension facilities and future needs of the county. The process began over 5 years ago for planning the development of an outdoor pavilion facility. The structure was completed in Spring of 2018. Near 100 individuals attended the Open House event for
Author: Ronda Rex
According to KELD (Kentucky Extension Leadership Development), “successful organizations consist of people who serve the community by engaging their creative talents and interests to serve the organization as well as the community” (Generating Members, Volunteers and Leaders in Community Organizations). Barbara Devlin and Lori Neltner are two volunteers/leaders who have done just that by providing over 60 years of their creative talents/interests and skills (learned through the Coope
Author: Alexandria Brasher
According to data from the Corporation for National and Community Service 763,706 Kentuckians volunteered in 2015 of their time, talent and effort to improve people’s lives. 84.34 million hours of service and $1.7 billion of service were contributed. Henderson County’s population is around 29,000 and the need for volunteers is more critical as programs expand. The Henderson County Extension office ended the year with a leadership appreciation dinner that was called “Hender
Author: Daniel Allen
There are an increasing number of young, and new farmers that have a keen interest in farming. As the agriculture agent, I have a bird’s eye view of the agriculture community and my observations are there is a need to develop leaders of these younger farm operators. To address the loss or lack of leadership, and to remain true to the values of the land grant university system, I chose to initiate the Kenton County Agriculture Leadership Program. This 10 Session program began late fall 2017
