Missouri 4-H EYSC8:

1. Missouri 4-H EYSC8: A Year in Pictures Photo Credits: Steve Henness, LaKrista Souders, Colleen McDevitt, Becky Bassett, Elaine Davis, some guy in a state park

2. EYSC8 Grantee Training – National 4-H Center L to R: Amanda Fabi (Delaware), LaKrista Souders, Natalie Quade, Johanna Reed Adams, Steve Henness

3. EYSC8 Grantee Training – National 4-H Center

4. Polk County EYSC team members at Youth Civic Leaders Summit, March 2010. Angelia Ham, 4-H Youth Specialist, and her son, the late Kenny Ham, are pictured at left.

5. Oregon County EYSC team members at Youth Civic Leaders Summit, March 2010. Becky Bassett, 4-H Youth Program Assistant, is pictured at the far right.

6. Clockwise from top left: Oregon County EYSC team members at the Youth Civic Leaders Summit, March 2010. Lower left: University core team youth members LaKrista Souders and Paige Selman during a skit at the Summit.

7. Top left: Greenfield FFA members (Dade County EYSC core team members) at first regional training, May 2010. Above: Johanna Reed Adams, University core team adult member leading training activities. Left: Barry County EYSC team members discuss community issues. Jeremy Elliott-Engel, 4-H Youth Specialist, is pictured at center.

8. Core team members at first regional training, May 2010. Top left: Polk County EYSC team, including staff from Good Samaritan Boys Ranch. Top right: Dade County EYSC team, including staff from Ozark Area Community Action Agency. Left: Barry County EYSC team members.

9. Core team members learn while having fun at first regional training, Greenfield, Mo. May 2010.

10. Top: Oregon County EYSC core team members discuss community issues. Top right: LaKrista Souders and Natalie Quade, University Core Team, lead training activities. Right: Oregon County and Ripley County EYSC participants at second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

11. Top: Steve Henness (PI) discusses youth-adult partnerships with trainees. Top right and right: Oregon County EYSC core team members and Steve Henness (PI) at second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

12. Trainers and Ripley County EYSC participants at second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

13. Ripley County EYSC participants and Oregon County EYSC core team members and trainers at second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

14. Oregon County EYSC team members have fun with “Pitch Your Shoes” activity from Girl Scouts Challenge & Change curriculum during second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

15. University Core Team members from L to R: Johanna Reed Adams, LaKrista Souders, Natalie Quade, and Steve Henness on the way back to MU after second regional training, Doniphan, Mo. June 2010.

16. Pictured from L to R are: Becky Fay, 4-H Program Assistant, LaKrista Souders (University Core Team), Sarah Abbot, Greenfield FFA Advisor, youth members of core team, and Steve Henness (University Core Team). Nov. 2010 site visit to the Brown Bag Buddy Program led by Dade County EYSC members in Greenfield, Mo.

17. Dade County EYSC core team members and student volunteers prepare brown bags for the Brown Bag Buddy Program food distribution.

18. Jeremy Elliott-Engel, 4-H Youth Specialist (second from right) and Tony Rickard, Barry County MU Extension County Program Director (far right), inform the Barry County Commission about the USDA Rural Youth Development grant. The commissioners were interested in the project and Presiding Commissioner, Cherry Warren (center) agreed to participate on the core team.

19. Jeremy Elliott-Engel, 4-H Youth Specialist, discusses Agricultural Literacy Project details with Barry County EYSC core team members at the Barry County 4-H Council meeting, Nov. 2010. Pictured above are books purchased with USDA grant funds and provided to grades 1-2 classrooms as part of the embryology school enrichment project.

20. Barry County EYSC core team members (who also serve as Barry County 4-H Council officers) preside over a meeting of the Barry County 4-H Council, with assistance from parents and staff. They are seated in the chairs of the county commissioners in the courthouse in Cassville, Mo. This was the first meeting for youth as newly installed officers of the council. Nov. 2010.

21. University Core Team members from L to R: Steve Henness, LaKrista Souders, and Paige Selman, on site visit trip to Dade and Barton counties, Nov. 2010.

22. Barton County EYSC core team members at their initial training in Lamar, Mo., Nov. 2010. Linda Eggerman, Lamar High School FFCLA educator is pictured in the center (in front of banner). University Core Team members LaKrista Souders (second from left), and Steve Henness (second from right) conducted the training.

23. Barton County EYSC members learn more about food insecurity issues and assembling meals for the Backpack Snack Attack program from coordinator Debbie Snedigar (center left).

24. Barton County EYSC team members with 4-H volunteer Susan Roland (second from left) select food items for the Backpack Snack Attack Program.

25. Barton County EYSC project members with food in hand as part of assistance with Backpack Snack Attack Program.

26. Barton County EYSC team members assist with organizing weekend back pack meals.

27. Barton County EYSC core team member Lynzee Flores opens a Barton County Extension Council meeting, updating council members on the Missouri 4-H Homegrown Community Leaders (MOHOCOLA) project.

28. Barton County EYSC core team members complete a shopping trip and deliver holiday youth gift packs to Pat Neely, site coordinator for the Good Samaritan Gift Shop as part of the Share the JOY project. Prairie Mountain Screening donated the packs for the project.