Author: Anna Meador
Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
The IcrEDIBLES Cooking Club Member, Abbi, puts the final touches on the May Cooking Club Chicken Stir-Fry recipe. The IncrEDIBLES 4-H Cooking Club was developed in the Fall of 2018 in part by Allen County 4-H and the 4-H'er, Lexi and 4-H Agent, presented the Fire Department with a Thank You For Your Service Tray after April's Service Learning project. Allen County SNAP-Ed Program. The objective of the club is to provide an educational opportunity for youth to learn
Author: Valerie Stewart
Teachers from the Powell County School System requested Powell County Extension staff to conduct monthly lessons with their 4-H club meetings on subjects that are being covered in class. Powell County Extension staff developed and conducted an entreprenuership series with all the 5th grade classes in Powell County to re-enforce concepts learned in the classroom setting. All Powell County 5th grade classes participated. Over the course of the school year, students learned about
Author: Leslea Barnes
What do I want to be when I grow up? What do I want to do with the rest of my life? What college will I go to? Do I want to go to college or maybe learn a trade? What are my options? What can I do? These are many questions youth ask themselves for many years, especially in high school. It was a need in Crittenden County. School tries to prepare them for the future, but we were missing something and that's how Building Your Future day was started. This was
Author: Jessica Morris
Over the last 4 years, Wolfe County 4-H has partnered with the two local Family Resource Centers to provide the Countdown to Kindergarten program to get incoming kindergartners ready for school. When we started, 31% of incoming 5 year olds were ready for school. We developed a program that teaches them the skills they need in order to be deemed kindergarten ready but successful as well. They attend 5 sessions with their parents from January to June. Then in July we have the students only for 5 s
Author: Kimberly Lane
4-H aims to engage youth through hands-on experiences in order to build life skills. The 4-H It’s Your Reality (Dollars and Sense) Curriculum focuses on engaging youth in real life, age appropriate budgeting scenarios. Each student is given an allowance and how many pets they have to take of financially. In the orientation, they learn about budgeting his/her money. Students then have the responsibility of purchasing needs and wants in accordance to their budget at the Dollars and Sense sch
Author: Caroline Hughes
The "Touch Screen Generation" is terrifyingly tech savvy. The internet is their lifeblood, as essential as eating and breathing. We are told that kids living in this computer age are smarter than ever before, but basic life skills are on the endangered list. That is one reason why sewing is considered a valuable survival skill and the continued interest in the 4-H Sewing Project by four young 4-H'ers is something I consider exceptional. They have already learned b
Author: Lloyd Saylor
Adulting Class:Life Skills in Butler CountyPublicity about students being unprepared for the real world of, "Adulting," the Butler county 4-H Council decided to address the issue. Greg Drake our Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent assisted.What is credit, how to plan a budget, What to know when taking a car loan, to cooking basic meals, changing a tire and check fluids, . What is insurance? Interview skills were also addressed. The 4 evenings of the program were broken to Lea
Author: Laura Huffman
The Hart County 4-H Program and the Hart County Chamber of Commerce collaborated with the Hart County School System to offer a Work Readiness Day for all high school juniors to better prepare students for the workforce. The goal of the Work Readiness Day was to create an awareness about career opportunities within the county and show students what is require to help them succeed in the workplace. 178 High School Juniors started the day by touring two of the local manufacturing companies to
The Hart County Chamber of Commerce has been looking for ways to bring new businesses into the county. The 4-H Youth Development Agent and the Hart County Chamber Director decided to focus on a younger audience to see if an Entrepreneur Program would help youth start thinking about establishing businesses in the county. In November, the Hart County 4-H Program collaborated with the Chamber of Commerce to offer the Entrepreneur Challenge (E-Challenge) Program for 7th -12t
Author: Kelly Smith
Financial management is a major issue in life that is often poorly identified by today’s youth. A 2011 Charles Schwab survey revealed that of the 1,132 teens between 16 and 18, were surveyed, 42% stated they wanted their parents to talk more about finances and money. A mere 32% of these teens stated they knew how credit card interest and fees work. For a group of teens and young adults who are nearing the end of their high school career, these kids are in jeopardy of struggling on th
Author: Chanda Hall
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Author: Cecelia Hostilo
Each year 4-H Youth Development, Trigg Family Resource Center, and a 7th grade Social Studies teacher from Trigg County Middle School team up to present 4-H Reality Store, a financial simulation that provides students an opportunity to experience making real life financial decisions based on certain perameters such as career choice and grad point average. This year 157 seventh grade Trigg County Middle School students went through the simulation. The Trigg County FCS agent spent days
Author: Catherine Weaver
4-H CookingThe Jessamine County 4-H Program has had an increase in cooking for youth over the past several years. In order to meet this need, Jessamine County 4-H partnered with volunteer leaders and the Jessamine County Schools to hold several cooking programs. The 4-H Kitchen Stars is a cooking club open to 9-18 year olds and held once a month during the school year. Due to demand, two separate clubs were offered and 32 total youth participated. Those 32 youth received 14 ho
Author: Julia Wilson
Today’s families are stretched thin for care of children school-age and younger between heavy workloads, single parenting in many cases, elder caregiving, and children’s out-of-school activities. Extended family members often live too far away to be daily caregivers after school, evenings, weekends or in the summer. Younger children are not able to responsibly take care of themselves alone at home. Qualified short-term adult caregivers for younger children are often hard to find in t
Author: Stacey Potts
Daviess County 4-H provided a series of six healthy living based programs for eighteen 3rd -5th grade after school program students at Estes Elementary as a 21st Century grant partner. The school is located in a low-income area next to the Rolling Heights apartments, operated by the Owensboro Housing Authority. The lessons included proper breathing activities and techniques for calming and stress relief, proper hand-washing, stretching exercises and healthy snacking. For healthy snac
The primary goal of the Kentucky 4-H Sewing program is to teach youth about the art and skills of creating useful items using needle and thread. This includes not only the use of a hand needle and thread, but also the sewing machine and serger. Sewing can be used to create clothing and wardrobe essentials, as well as useful items for daily living.Five Daviess County 4-H’ers worked with a volunteer leader for 12 hours over four nights and an undetermined amount of additional hou
The obesity epidemic threatens the quality and years of life of Kentuckians and Trigg Countians. Obese individuals are at increased risk for many chronic health conditions, including type-2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some types of cancers. The Healthcare Profile for winter 2014 indicates that 33.8% of adults are obese and 35.3% are physically inactive. 11.8% of adults in the county have diabetes. 28.7% (23.2-33.45) of Trigg Countians report having been diagnosed with high
Author: Hazel Jackson
Sewing is an activity that requires critical thinking, problem solving and encourages the ability to follow directions. During the first grading term of the school year, 132 students in grades 6-8 participated in a basic sewing class during their Family & Consumer Sciences class at Rockcastle County Middle School in the first semester of school 2018-19. Each student made a small makeup or shave bag. Bags were made from fabrics and materials that were donated by Extension Ho
