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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Socorro County)
Date October 26, 2011, 7:41 pm
For Objective Medium-term Show medium-term objectives
Impact Report County Council/ Club Leadership: Youth serve in leadership roles at the club and county level by performing the following duties: Elected Officer, Event Coordinator, Pledge Leader, Caller, and Committee Chair/member. A district wide training is provided to all County Council Officer training them in the following areas: Leadership, Teamwork, Decision Making, Communication and Professionalism. Each Council was given the opportunity to work with an agent from another county to set their goals for the year. Following the district wide training, the county council officers were expected to train the club officer in their particular county. Socorro County Council Officer trained club officers on Leadership, Teamwork, Decision Making, Communication, and Parliamentary Procedure. 85% of youth actively involved in County and Club leadership gained knowledge and skills related to decision making, communication, social skills, accepting differences, leadership, contributing to group effort, teamwork, healthy lifestyle choices and goal setting. The agents also submitted an award application to the NAE4-HA for this event and were awarded a regional Excellence in Teamwork award for the Western Region. The Socorro County Agents were requested to provide a leadership training for 4-H members in Union and Harding Counties. The Agents taught youth about what it means to be a good officer, what their office duties are, and communication, teamwork and decision making skills. Youth participated in an obstacle course in order to reinforce these skills being taught. Youth split up into groups and worked as a team to complete the course. 100% of the youth worked as a team and to make the correct decisions in order to successfully completed the task. Through this training youth learned life skills such as teamwork, decision-making, planning/organizing, goal setting, communication, cooperation and leadership.