Success StoryIt's Your Reality



It's Your Reality

Author: Carrie Derossett

Planning Unit: Logan County CES

Major Program: Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Managing Family and Personal Finances

Outcome: Initial Outcome

Logan County 4-H Reality Store

Program Year: 2017-18

By: Carrie Derossett, 4-H Youth Development Agent, Logan County 

   4-H aims to engage youth through hands-on experiences in order to build life skills. The 4-H It’s Your Reality (Reality Store) Curriculum focuses on engaging teens in real life budgeting scenarios. Each student is given an occupation with a salary, determine if they have a spouse, their spouse’s career, and how many children they have. In the orientation, they learn about the importance of taxes and how to deduct those from their household income. Students then have the responsibility of purchasing needs and wants in accordance to their budget. Some fall on hard times and have to get addition jobs for income. 

   All 8th and 10th graders in our county participate in the It’s Your Reality 4-H school enrichment program. These students are choosing career clusters and are becoming college and career ready. We are hopeful that this program has a long-term impact on their career focus.

   According to their 2017 evaluations, 87% of students reported an increase in their level of understanding on budgeting their own money. 78% reported that they have a better understanding on the link between their career choice and their lifestyle. In the short-term, we know that because of this program, students have a better understanding of how career choices and money management decisions impact their financial security in years to come and we hope to see a long-term impact on these students.






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