4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Working Throughout the County for Positive Youth Development

Grant County 4-H Program

4-H Provides Essential Elements for Positive Youth Development

Providing Research Base Information on Youth Issues

• The Southwest Wisconsin Youth Survey (SWYS)
  Find out what Grant County youth are saying about their concerns, attitudes, perceptions and behaviors. Results of the 2005 survey are being added to the website regularly.
• UWEX Youth Development works with community coalitions to provide research base information. These coalitions include:
  • The Roundtable of Grant County which is a think-tank that develops and supports alternatives to underage drinking and promotes positive youth development.
  • The Grant County Drug-Free Coalition who's mission is to improve the quality of life among Grant County youth, and over time, adults by collaboratively reducing and controlling drug use, and by promoting healthy, safe and drug-free lifestyles.
  • Grant County Safe Communities who's mission is dedicated to keeping Grant County safe through prevention education and citizen involvement.
  • Grant County Tobacco-Free Coalition who's mission is to improve the quality of life for Grant County Citizens through the reduction/prevention of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.

Relating to Others in a Changing Society

• Friends Helping Friends (Training older youth to teach their younger peers about friendship, communication, dating and other issues).
• Maximizing Your Potential (A fun way to examine interpersonal relationships).

Strengthening 4-H Leadership

• Working with Grant County 4-H youth and adult leaders to make UW-Extension's premier youth program even better. Find out more about the hundreds of activities for youth and the resources available for parents and leaders.

  
  4-H is a community of young people across America that are
  learning leadership, citizenship and life skills!!!!

The Youth Development Team

• Tom Schmitz, Youth Development Educator has been serving Grant County youth since 1989. Email Tom at thomas.schmitz@ces.uwex.edu
• Cathy McPhail, Youth Assistant has been serving Grant County youth since 1989. Email Cathy at cathy.mcphail@ces.uwex.edu
• Bev Broihahn, Administrative Support has been serving Grant County youth since 1978. Email Bev at bev.broihahn@uwex.ces.edu
• Britt Vondra, 4-H Intern has been serving Grant County since 2006. E-mail -britt_vondra@hotmail.com

Tom Schmitz, Youth Development Educator
Youth and Agriculture Center P.O. Box 31, Lancaster, WI 53813
Phone: 608-723-2125   Fax: 608:723-4315   
E-mail: thomas.schmitz@ces.uwex.edu