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Impact Report

For plan Adult Volunteer Leader Development (Santa Fe County)
Date October 29, 2010, 4:11 am
For Objective Medium-term Show medium-term objectives
Impact Report Santa Fe County has a very strong base of 4-H leaders. The agents provide continual support to these leaders on a daily basis. This year one of the programs offered for 4-H members was the 3rd annual organizational leaders training held in February. In response to the extremely positive feedback from the first two years of training, organizational leaders from each 4-H club within the county were asked to attend this day long training developed by the 4-H Ag agent and the 4-H Home Economist. A portion of the training was dedicated to reviewing the current state and county policies and procedures for 4-H clubs. Addressed in this portion was reviewing club charters, using the 4-H name and emblem, and procedures for registering for an EIN number and reporting to the IRS. Another portion of the training was dedicated to addressing the issues that many organizational leaders have within their clubs. Some of the topics discussed included learning how to identify leaders within your club, recognizing and prioritizing needs, delegating responsibility, and utilizing outside resources. These topics were discussed in an open forum allowing leaders to share ideas and concerns. This year’s training also focused on developing a complaint free environment for our clubs. The agent modified a national curriculum teaching the leaders from Santa Fe county how they can identify the complainers, and turn the environment in their club into a more positive one. Also covered in the training this year was the topic of service within our project work. The agent began to notice that the service component was being separated from the project work more often than not. The agents facilitated an exercise in which leaders were asked to identify ways that we can incorporate service as it relates to the subject matter work of member’s projects. 15 leaders attended this training.