4-H Afterschool And Fund Raising – A Great Combination

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• 4-H Afterschool And Fund Raising A Great
  Combination
• Eddie Locklear
• 4-H Afterschool Director
• National 4-H Council

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What Are After-School Programs?

• Offered when children and youth are not in school
  and parents need care for them
• Provide safe, healthy, caring, and enrichment
  environments
• Include before- and after-school hours, teacher
  workdays, school holidays, summer, and may
  include weekends
• (continued) ?

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What Are After-School Programs?

• Long-term, structured, sequentially planned
  learning experiences in partnership with adults
• Are offered every day or several days of the week
  for extended periods of time
• Sponsored by schools or community groups
  (Schools, BGCA, YMCA, Faith-based, etc.)

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After-School Programs Whats the Buzz?

• Have exploded into the nations consciousness.
• The hours between 300 and 600 p.m. are the
  prime time for crime or youth enrichment and
  achievement.
• Interest is unprecedented.
• There is an explosion of programs.
• Such programs are the cornerstone of the goal
  to reduce crime.

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Rationale Why After-School Programs?

• Changing family situations
• Time of risk or opportunity
• Research support for benefits of participation

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• Some significant negative consequences
• Youth are at greater risk of being victims of
  violent crime.
• Juvenile crime triples at 3 p.m.
• Greater risk of substance abuse and sexual
  activity
• Anti-social behavior
• School dropout (continued) ?

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• Low academic performance and poor grades
• Over exposure to television
• Truancy
• Accidents

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• Some significant benefits include
• Improved academic performance
• Reduction in youth crime and risky behavior
• Reduction in sexual activity
• Reduction in drug use
• Increased school success and high school
  graduation (continued) ?

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• Improved social skills
• Improved school attendance
• Reduction in school dropout
• Increased homework completion and quality
• Improved self-confidence
• Improved interpersonal skills
• Increased life skills

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Rationale Extension Involvement in After-School
Programs

• Reach audiences not otherwise reached
• Opportunity to take a leadership role in
  addressing community needs

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Extensions Niche

• Remains close to local needs.
• Creates customized programs.
• Connects with land-grant university research
  base.
• Employs high quality faculty and staff with
  expertise in youth development and a connection
  to a national network.

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4-H Afterschool Defined

• Are offered when youth are not in school and
  their parents need safe, healthy, caring, and
  enriching places for them
• Reach K-12th grade
• Uses youth development principles (cognitive,
  social, emotional and physical)
• Long-term, structured, sequentially planned
  learning experiences
• (continued) ?

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Goals of 4-H Afterschool

• Provide professional development opportunities to
  Cooperative Extension staff and 4-H Volunteers
• Provide training to after-school staff in a
  variety of topics including youth development and
  curricula delivery
• Offer 4-H and Cooperative Extension System
  curricula to youth in after-school programs
• Organize 4-H Clubs in after-school programs

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Objectives

• Increase the quality and availability of
  after-school programs
• Increase numbers of 4-H members and volunteers
• Increase usage of 4-H curricula among youth in
  after-school programs
• Increase skills and knowledge of after-school
  staff
• Increase awareness of 4-H program
• Increase the skills and knowledge of Extension
  professionals in after-school programming

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Eight Essential Elements of 4-H

• A positive relationship with a caring adult
• A safe environment
• An inclusive environment
• Engagement in learning
• From Dr. Cathann Kress, Essential Elements of
  4-H Youth Development (2004) (continued) ?

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Eight Essential Elements of 4-H

• Opportunity for mastery
• Opportunity to see oneself as an active
  participant in the future
• Opportunity for self-determination
• Opportunity to value and practice service to
  others
• From Dr. Cathann Kress, Essential Elements of
  4-H Youth Development (2004)

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8 Elements 4 Concepts

• Belonging
• Positive relationship with a caring adult
• An inclusive environment
• A safe environment
• Mastery
• Engagement in learning
• Opportunity for mastery
• From Dr. Cathann Kress, Essential Elements of
  4-H Youth Development (2004) (continued) ?

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8 Elements 4 Concepts

• Independence
• Opportunity to see oneself as an active
  participant in the future
• Opportunity for self-determination
• Generosity
• Opportunity to value and practice service for
  others
• From Dr. Cathann Kress, Essential Elements of
  4-H Youth Development (2004)

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JCPenney Afterschool Fund Grants

• 2004
• 15 10,000 grants to states
• 57 counties
• Over 13,800 youth
• 226 Extension staff trained
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JCPenney Afterschool Fund Grants

• 2004
• 441 4-H Volunteers
• 934 After-school staff
• 134 New 4-H Clubs
• 209 Collaborations (141 New ones)

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Partnerships Developed

• Memoranda of Agreements (MOA)
• Boys and Girls Clubs of America
• YMCA
• Junior Achievement
• Afterschool Alliance

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System Wide Impact

• 300,000 Youth reached
• 20,000 After-school staff trained
• 1,500 4-H Clubs in after-school programs
• 1,400 4-H Staff trained
• Over 20 million to 4-H Afterschool programming
  (Cash and In-Kind)

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Where we are going in 2005

• JCPenney Afterschool Grant (600,000)
• NFL Charities Grant (376,500)
• 10 Grants to States (30,000 each)
• 25 mini-grants to 4-H Volunteers for after-school
  work
• More Partnerships
• Extensive Marketing (continued) ?

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Where we are going in 2005

• Two New Resource Guides
• How to start after-school programs
• Recruiting and Training Teen Teams
• Success Stories Highlighted
• Web-based Evaluation and Reporting
• Enhanced Web site
• 8 4-H Afterschool Award of Excellence
• 500 awards and plaque

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Funding Successes

• JCPenney Afterschool Fund
• 02 - 400,000
• 03 - 500,000
• 04 - 500,000
• 05 - 600,000
• NFL Grant
• 05 - 376,500

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Other Funding Successes

• 21st Century Community Learning Centers
• Dept. of Health and Human Resources
• Federal Agencies (HUD, DJJDP, etc.)
• School Systems
• Governors Offices
• Foundations
• Extension-sponsored, fee structure

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What 4-H Can Offer Donors!

• Remains close to local needs.
• Creates customized programs.
• Connects with land-grant university research
  base.
• Employs high quality faculty and staff with
  expertise in youth development and a connection
  to a national network.
• (continued) ?

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What 4-H Can Offer Donors!

• Wide variety of curricula
• Citizenship and Civic Education
• Communications and Expressive Arts
• Consumer Family Sciences
• Environmental Ed. Earth Sciences
• Healthy Lifestyle Education
• Personal Development and Leadership
• Plants and Animals
• Science and Technology

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Focused on Needs and Interests of Society!

• 4-H Priorities
• Science and Technology
• 4-H Afterschool
• Youth In Governance
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Professional Development (after-school staff and
  volunteers)

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4-H Afterschool Supports Needs

• All children youth are in safe, healthy,
  caring, enriching environments when they are
  away from their parents.
• Training available to all after-school staff in
  America
• Hands on, appropriate curricula available to all
  youth in after-school programs in America
  

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4-H AfterschoolVision

• Increased numbers of 4-H volunteers and 4-H
  members.
• Increased support to States and County 4-H
  Afterschool
• Financial
• Educational Resources
• Marketing Materials
• Other support as funding allows

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• For more information
• http//www.4hafterschool.org
• http//www.reeusda.gov/extensioncares/
• (click evaluation button)
• http//www.cyfernet.org/
• http//www.nncc.org/
• http//www.jcpenney.net/company/
• afterschool/index.htm
• (click national partners)
• http//www.national4-hheadquarters.gov/

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