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4-H: Creating Greater Opportunity for Youth

Learn how 4-H, with its essential elements of youth development, offers opportunities for youth to meet their needs, build skills and values, belong to a community, experience generosity, and develop mastery.

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4-H: Creating Greater Opportunity for Youth

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  1. Essential Elements of 4-H Youth DevelopmentCathann KressDirector, Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H HeadquartersCSREES, USDA

  2. 4-H: The American Idea Creating Greater Opportunity for Youth • Learning By Doing • Leading By Example • Access to 105 State Land-Grant Universities • 7 Million Youth partnering with 3,500 professional educators and 640,000 volunteer leaders • Over 100 Years of Reaching Youth

  3. Approaches to 4-H Youth Development Focus: Risks Target: Social Norms Goal: Fewer Problems Focus: Skills & Knowledge Focus: Developmental Needs Target: Individual Learners Target: Opportunities for Youth Goal: Competency in knowledge or skill Goal: Maturity

  4. Understanding the Different Approaches Developed by Cathann A. Kress, Ph.D. EDUCATION FOCUS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

  5. Essential Elements of 4-H

  6. All Youth will find ways to: 1) Meet their basic needs 2) Build skills and values 3) Use their skills, talents, energies and time in ways that make them feel good and powerful.

  7. I pledge my head to clearer thinking… INDEPENDENCE Youth need to know that they are able to Influence people and events through decision-making and action.

  8. I pledge my heart to greater loyalty… BELONGING Current research emphasizes the importance for youth to have opportunities for long-term consistent relationships with adults other than parents. This research suggests that belonging may be the single most powerful positive ingredient we can add into the lives of youth.

  9. I pledge my hands to larger service… GENEROSITY Youth need to feel their lives have meaning and purpose. • By participating in 4-H community service and citizenship activities, youth can connect to communities and learn to give back to others.

  10. I pledge my health to better living… MASTERY In order to develop self-confidence youth need to feel and believe they are capable and they must experience success at solving problems and meeting challenges.

  11. Why is Meeting Youth Needs so Important?

  12. If you were to design a youth development program intended to assist young people to become healthy, problem-solving constructive adults – what would it look like?

  13. What would it look like? • It would offer opportunities for belonging • It would offer opportunities to experience a “hands-on” laboratory • It would offer opportunities for young people to choose • It would offer opportunities to experience what it means to be a citizen

  14. It would look a lot like 4-H

  15. Essential Elements of 4-H Youth DevelopmentCathann KressDirector, Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H HeadquartersCSREES, USDA

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