I pledge my HEAD to greater thinking,

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The 4-H Community commits to this pledge
I pledge my HEAD to greater thinking, My
HEART to greater loyalty, My HANDS to larger
service, and My HEALTH to better living, For
my club, my community, my country and my world.
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King County 4-HYouth Development
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What is 4-H?

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4-H is a community of young people
across America who are
learning leadership citizenship
and life
skills
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• 4-H reaches out to all citizens ages 5-18
• 4-H members come from all racial, social,
  cultural, economic backgrounds
• 4-H programs are located in rural, urban, and
  suburban communities

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• __________________________________________________
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• County Extension Offices are the outreach for the
  Land Grant University to involve citizens in
  their communities

4-H Brings the University to the Youth!
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• 9 million members in the United States in almost
  100,000 clubs
• 55,795 members in Washington
• 16,000 young people served in King County

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What is the shared purpose for 4-H?

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Positive Youth Development

• Emphasizing youths' strengths
• Providing opportunities to learn healthy
  behaviors
• Promoting positive relationships with peers
• Connecting youth with caring adults
• Empowering youth to assume leadership roles in
  programs
• Challenging youth in ways that build their
  competence

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Essential Elements of 4-H
BELONGING MASTERY INDEPENDENCE GENEROSITY
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Guiding Principles The Essential Elements
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How does 4-H accomplish its purpose of positive
youth development?


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• with
• incredible volunteers
• and
• young people
• all
• learning together

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As a volunteer you canSHARE

• Time
• Leadership for youth
• Creative ideas
• Knowledge and experience
• Evaluation and feedback to staff

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• As a volunteer you canGAIN
• Satisfaction of working with youth
• Leadership skills
• Increased skills through training opportunities
• Recognition within the community
• Communication skills to effectively resolve and
  appreciate differences
• Opportunities to engage in state, regional and
  national experiences
• Practice in group decision making
• Self-confidence

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About VolunteeringAs a volunteer you
arePRICELESS

• The 4-H program quality is improved and
  strengthened with your participation
• You provide a unique perspective
• More youth can be reached
• You provide greater visibility for the program
• You have immediate access to the community

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4-H Works!Results in Positive Youth and
Community Development
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What does 4-H look like in King County?

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Methods used in 4-H include

• Clubs

• County/State Events

• International Exchange Programs

• School Programs and Adventure Education

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What do the different types of 4-H have in common?


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Experiential Learning Cycle
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Learning Community Model
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So how is being in 4-H valuable to our
children, volunteers, and community?


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Examples of Shared Skills

• Lifeskills
• Public speaking
• Planning
• Teamwork

• Project Specific
• Skills
• Photography
• Animal care
• Robotics

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Shared Outcomes

• Leadership opportunities in the club, the
• community, and the world
• 40 Developmental Assets - Lifeskills
• Development
• Tufts Study of Positive Youth Development

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4-H is the Youth Development Program of Land
Grant Universities
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• __________________________________________________
  ______
• County Extension Offices are the outreach for the
  Land Grant University to involve citizens in
  their communities

4-H Brings the University to the Youth!
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WSU King County Extension and every Extension
Office

• Is all about stewardship
• Of youth and families
• Of land, water, forests, and farms
• See more at www.king.wsu.edu

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Extension Staff Directory

• Administrative StaffDay, T.Diane Administrative
  Assistant Gaolach, BradDirectorRoark,
  JanBusiness and Finance Officer
• 4-H YouthLerner, Sue 4-H Youth Development
  Faculty Morales Osegueda, Sonia Agriculture/4-H
  Youth Development FacultyMcElroy, Shan4-H
  Program Assistant Sarah Butzine4-H Program
  Assistant
• Food and FarmsKantor, Sylvia Agriculture Food
  Systems Faculty Tricia Sexton Extension Event
  CoordinatorCha, BeeImmigrant Farming
  SpecialistMurray, Todd Commercial Agriculture
  and Community Horticulture Faculty (Interim)
• ForestryAmy Grotta Forest Stewardship Faculty
• GardeningAnderson, Elaine Master Gardener
  Program Coordinator Chao, Yao-Fou Organic
  Gardening EducatorMurray, Todd Commercial
  Agriculture and Community Horticulture Faculty
  (Interim)

Healthy Families Hsu, Suzan Family/Consumer
Science Faculty Royster, Juana Community
Health Education Specialist, Statewide Faculty
Nutrition Aitken, Martha Food ense Program
Manager Craig, B. Susie Area Faculty for
Nutrition Education, Food Safety and
Health Hauck, Susie Food ense Secretary
Watersheds Environment Andreas,
Jennifer Integrated Weed Control Project
Director Batura, Darcy Environmental
Education Faculty Zimmerman, Tara Water
Resources Faculty Weed
Biocontrol Andreas, Jennifer Integrated Weed
Control Project Director Zimmerman, Tara
Water Resources Faculty WSU
Minority Student Recruitment Jennings, Gladys
WSU Minority Student Recruitment
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4-H Program Leadership

• Shared vision, ideas, responsibilities and
  leadership for the program
• between extension faculty, staff and volunteers
  (adults and youth)
• Dynamic partnership that requires Extension staff
  and volunteers to share in
• planning and implementing programs
• Tasks are divided according to individual talents
  and interests, rather than by
• title or role expectations
• Shared partnership requires balance of trust,
  credibility, truth and
• accountability between extension staff and
  volunteers
• Ultimate leadership, responsibility and authority
  for the program remains with the WSU Extension
  and its Extension Educators who are held legally
  and ethically accountable for the operation of
  the 4-H Youth Development Program.

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Who to ask? Lori Greer Office
Manager Membership, enrollment, club contacts,
general information and who to ask for other
things Sarah Butzine Experiential Learning
and Leadership Development Design and
facilitation of trainings on 4-H curriculum,
leadership, group facilitation, and evaluation.
Staff liaison for KC fair. Shanyanika (Shan)
McElroy Marketing Outreach Training support
for outreach events, new partnerships, print and
non print marketing materials, spoken word
curriculum Sonia Morales 4-H Faculty Diversity
training and program development for families
youth, new partnerships, summer program Sue
Lerner Interim 4-H Educator Overall program
leadership supervision including program rules
and regulations in alignment with State and
National 4-H, WSU and King County, staff
supervision, financial development (grants),
Strategic Plan and Advisory Committee
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Partnerships with 4-H

• Youth and Families
• Youth development organizations
• Schools
• Faith-based organizations
• Community based agencies
• Located throughout KC
• Same age, ethnic and gender diversity
• as in King County

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Strategic Growth
Advisory Committee - representative group of
people responsible for giving advice on 4-H
program needs, direction and management to insure
a balanced program based on the county
affirmative action plan. Strategic Planning
Framework 5 year plan resulting from study of
needs and interests of all county youth five to
19 years of age by a representative group of
people. www.king.wsu.edu/4h
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King County 4-H -Challenges and Opportunities
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Challenges and Opportunities for 4-H

• Volunteers and Members
• Declining adult volunteer and youth membership in
  
• 4-H community clubs
• Increasing membership in urban areas, schools and
  other organizations
• Lack of capacity to support increasing membership
• Low, but increasing, cultural and geographical
  diversity in membership

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Challenges and Opportunities for 4-H

• Funding
• King County funding presently supports ¼ of
  salaries for 4H Faculty and Staff (This funding
  is a requirement for funding from WSU from which
  we receive the remaining ¾ ). Without Extension
  staff, 4H cannot exist in the County.
• Due to reduced income from County taxes, there is
  concern that by 2014 there will be no County
  funding for 4H. KC 4-H has no fundraising
  mechanism, other than grants.
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• Our goal is 100K/year

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Challenges and Opportunities for 4-H

• Faculty Leadership transition
• The permanent lead 4-H faculty position will be
  hired soon.

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4-H Strategic Plan Review
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Focus Area One Access, Equity and Opportunity
4-H Values Equitable access, Opportunities for
all youth, their families, volunteer and staff,
Extensive networks of community partners

• Focus Area Goals
• 4-H will invest in youth and their future by
  ensuring equitable access to all youth
  development opportunities offered by WSU-KC
  Extension.
• 4-H will make priority investment in
  collaborative partnerships to build capacity and
  enrollment for King Countys diverse urban and
  rural populations

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Focus Area Two Cultivating Exceptional People
and Innovative Human Resource Practices
4-H Values Developing and investing in human
resource systems, shared leadership, leading edge
professional development, support of volunteers
and advancement of youth development field

• Focus Area Goals
• 4-H will create a human resource system to
  recruit, hire and mentor exceptional membership
  of diverse adult and youth leaders.
• WSU-KC Extension and 4-H will invest in its
  people by providing exceptional learning/training
  opportunities.
• WSU-KC Extension and 4-H will advance the field
  of youth development preparation and practice.

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Focus Area Three Extraordinary Experiences and
Innovative Practices
4-H Values Youth development principles,
experiential education and effective program
delivery, new technology, math science and
technical literacy

• Focus Area Goals
• WSU-KC Extension and 4-H will imagine and design
  flexible experiential educational models that
  engage the head, heart, hand and health of youth.
• 4-H will develop, strengthen, and support the
  youth development competencies of extension
  faculty and all levels of 4-H leadership.
• WSU KC Extension and 4-H will use new
  technologies to shape learning opportunities that
  go beyond the boundaries of geography, time, and
  expertise

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Focus Area Four Building Systems to support
mission implementation
4-H Values Community partnerships and alliances,
Resourcefulness, Diversity Internal
collaboration, Volunteerism

• Focus Area Goals
• 4-H will create bold, innovative, capacity
  building initiatives to enable mission and
  strategic framework implementation.
• WSU KC Extension will build capacity to support
  the expanding role of 4-H in the youth-related
  components of all Extension programs.
• 4-H will strengthen the capacity of WSU Extension
  professionals and volunteers to identify
  collaborators and develop partnerships.
• 4-H will update technology infrastructure to more
  effectively use information systems

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Focus Area Five Investing in a sustainable
future
4-H Values Innovation as a strategy, creativity
in its volunteers and staff, clear/consistent and
compelling messages, a strong advocacy voice for
youth, open honest communication

• Focus Area Goals
• 4-H will determine organizational priorities
  through Strategic Framework planning.
• 4-H will outline a sustainability plan for public
  and private fund development.
• 4-H will ensure systems are agile and adaptable,
  capitalizing on opportunistic and sustainable
  resource development.
• 4-H will collaborate with Washington State 4-H
  Foundation to create 4-H scholarships and other
  funding options.
• 4-H will review funding, fees and collection
  policies

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Focus Area Six Cultivating Exceptional People
and Innovative Human Resource Practices
4-H Values Developing and investing in human
resource systems, shared leadership, leading edge
professional development, support of volunteers
and advancement of youth development field

• Focus Area Goals
• 4-H will Draft and implement a Marketing Plan
  that communicates the value of 4-H in culturally
  and gender inclusive ways.

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New KC 4-H website
http//www.king.wsu.edu/4h/prototype
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