Modern 4-H club programs range from traditional agriculture to sewing, photography, shooting sports and so much more!
4-H provides fun, educational opportunities that empower young people with skills to lead for a lifetime and become the foundation for future success. After all, true leaders aren't born: they're grown! |
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LEARN MORE ABOUT 4-H - A Positive Youth Development Program
4-H offers so much for you to do. You find the path that makes sense for you! Join a club, explore your interests, build leadership skills and make connections with new friends, mentors, future employers and finally, have fun!!!
Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a approach that guides our 4-H Program to promote services, opportunities, and supports so that young people can develop to their full potential. All our programs, regardless of the 4-H project, teach life skills such as communication and understanding of science.
4-H has empowered young people to use their head, heart, hands, and health to reach their full potential and live by the 4-H pledge:
Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a approach that guides our 4-H Program to promote services, opportunities, and supports so that young people can develop to their full potential. All our programs, regardless of the 4-H project, teach life skills such as communication and understanding of science.
4-H has empowered young people to use their head, heart, hands, and health to reach their full potential and live by the 4-H pledge:
I pledge my HEAD to clearer thinking,
my HEART to greater loyalty,
my HANDS to larger service,
and my HEALTH to better living,
for my club, my community,
my county, and my world.
my HEART to greater loyalty,
my HANDS to larger service,
and my HEALTH to better living,
for my club, my community,
my county, and my world.
4-H by the numbers
the six c's of positive youth development
- Competence: Positive view of one’s actions in specific areas, including social and academic skills.
- Confidence: An internal sense of overall positive self-worth and self-efficacy.
- Connection: Positive bonds with people and institutions that are reflected in exchanges between the individual and their peers, family, school, and community and in which both parties contribute to the relationship.
- Character: Respect for societal and cultural norms, possession of standards for correct behaviors, a sense of right and wrong (morality), and integrity.
- Caring: A sense of sympathy and empathy for others.
- Contribution: Contributions to self, family, community, and to the institutions of a civil society.