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Impact Report
| For plan | Youth Development (Eddy County) |
| Date | October 29, 2009, 11:34 pm |
| For Objective | Medium-term Show medium-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Educating youth about various safety issues is the goal of the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day program. In 2008, the Home Economist served as lead coordinator for this program and played host to nearly 910 third grade students and their teachers from all elementary schools in Eddy County. The two day event was held at the Eddy County Fairgrounds. Nine different agencies and companies came to serve as presenters for the safety topics for this year’s event including ATV safety, construction site safety, making an emergency phone call, boating and water safety, chemical safety, pipeline safety, stranger danger, and more. During the event youth participated in stations and learned proper safety procedures as the presenters. As coordinator for this event, it was the Home Economists responsibility to contact and confirm presenters for each station, organize the schools participation in the event, arrange for volunteers, and also plan lunch to feed all students, teachers, presenters, and volunteers. This event always receives positive feedback from participants and this year was no exception. Participants and volunteers completed evaluation forms following the event. From the evaluations the following information was obtained: thirty-three percent of the participants lived on a farm or ranch, forty-two percent of the participants have visited a farm or ranch on a regular basis, ninety-two percent of the participants indicated that they learned new information pertaining to safety and eighty percent indicated that the safety information learned during this event is important for their entire family. |