After a 2017 needs assessment with the County Extension Council revealed that youth in the Appalachian area of Bell County need an opportunity to acquire life skills, leadership skills, value citizenship, and experience service-learning, the 4-H Junior Homemaker Club was born.  This club, in its instructional design, represents a marriage of the core components of the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (UKCES) Family and Consumer Science (FCS) program and the UKCES 4-H Youth Development program.

Eight young ladies and gentlemen enrolled in the 4-H Junior Homemakers Club. They learned parliamentary procedure, the value of civic engagement and civic groups, participated in multiple service-learning projects, became "Superstar Chefs" when they learned some kitchen basics and how to read and prepare a dish from a recipe, painted and had an etiquette lesson. 

This program brought together two program areas, was a unique and beneficial partnership between agents, and most importantly, addressed the needs that the advisory councils had voiced.