4-H – A Great After-School Partner!

4-H is:  Citizenship and Civic Education  Communication & Expressive Arts  Consumer & Family Science  Environmental Education  Healthy Life Style Education  Personal Development & Leadership  Plants & Animals  Science & Technology

4-H Keeps Utah’s Promise  Caring Adults  Safe Places  Healthy Start  Marketable Skills  Opportunities to Serve

4-H Can Enhance Your Existing Program!!  4-H has hands-on, learn-by-doing curriculum in a variety of different topics!  4-H has a built-in leadership component, which is great for youth development!  4-H can make lesson planning easier for you!!

Experiential Learning Model EXPERIENCE the activity; do it SHARE the results, reactions & observations publicly PROCESS by discussing, looking at the experience, reflecting GENERALIZE to connect the experience to real-world examples APPLY what was learned to a similar or different situation; practice Do ReflectApply

2 Easy Steps to Make 4-H Work! 1.During club time each day, have a 4-H club meeting. 2.Have YOUTH club leaders start the club meeting to help develop their leadership skills.  President -Welcome  Vice President - Announcements  Secretary - Minutes & Roll Call  Pledge Specialist - Pledges  Song Leader - Song  Activity Chairman - Plan activities

Added Benefits of 4-H!!  USU Extension resources are available to your after-school program.  4-H Staff are available to train youth leaders.  Registered youth can participate in all 4-H events, camps and service activities.  Once you have filled out the necessary paper work, you can start to use the 4-H curriculum to enhance your programming.

4-H Registration Policy:  Gather youth information by sending home “4-H Youth Registration” forms.  Complete “4-H Club Enrollment Sheet,” making certain all youth are recorded.  Return “Club Enrollment Sheets” to the 4-H office. (The 4-H year is from October 1 to September 30. Youth only need to pay the registration fee once during that time.)

To Incorporate 4-H – Please Contact: Extension Agent Address Phone Number address