Success StorySpecial Youth Campaigns for 4-H Program
Special Youth Campaigns for 4-H Program
Author: Novella Froman
Planning Unit: Pike County CES
Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum
Plan of Work: Good Habits, Good Life
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Special Youth Campaigns for 4-H Program
When Dr. Mains challenged us to involve under served audiences, our 4-H Council reviewed our 4-H Programming to determine how we can expand the program and were thinking on this issue. We had 4-H of some type in every school in the county. As we were walking down the hallway of a school, John, a special needs student said, “Why can’t we have 4-H?” He had been in 4-H when he was in a mainstreamed classroom. He did this to me and a staff assistant. Out of the mouth of babes... cometh strength and praise to wisdom.- Psalms 8:2. John helped us to come up with a idea to meet our state director’s challenge.
The Pike County 4-H Program now has two Functionally Mentally Disabled units in two different high schools. These youth not only receive club meetings but one unit attended the local 4-H Fair. The teacher stated, “As you know, it can be lonely and isolating in our classroom and 4-H is our ray of sunshine.” These special 4-H Clubs are learning to make the best better through hands on activities in food, nutrition and life skills.
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