Case Study: Marin County 4-H.

Douglas County Students of all ages can expect to see a few additions to schools across the county when classes start on Aug. 8.

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

The role of a Volunteer is to support the overall learning in school, this can be done a variety of ways such as:

I am patient, and I think that will help my targeted audience a lot. I am focused and will stay on task. I will not be doing other things while volunteering. I can help the kids with their homework, but I can also make it fun and enjoyable.

A mentoring program has been coordinated by Millie DiStefano and high school students to mentor elementary school students each day for 30

The use of volunteers like parents or community members can help relieve some responsibilities that are on many teachers or administrators plates. This can allow teachers and administrators to focus on student learning.

Teacher’s Aide  Reading to children  Supervising children  Helping children in the classroom Volunteering 2008 - 2010 Adaminaby Public School Adaminaby NSW Teacher’s Aide  Reading to children  Supervising children  Helping children in the classroom

WOOSTER — Staff, volunteers and participants of the Wayne County 4-H program met with the commissioners recently to thank them for their support and share with them the impacts the organization is making.

Rancho Minerva Middle School (RMMS) is located in the rural area within the Vista Unified School District (VUSD). A major issue occurring at RMMS is corresponding to sixth to eighth grade male students being recipients of ineffective punishments as a result of their disruptive behavior. Students’ disruptive behavior refers to those who engage in altercations, disrupt teachers during instruction time, and become involved in substance use. The ramifications for students with disruptive behaviors are followed by disciplinary approaches such as expulsions, suspensions, Saturday school, and after school detention. Such approach has resulted in students achieving lower academics which can also increase the chances of engaging in risky behavior outside the school. According to RMMS School Accountability Report Card (SARC), in the 2014-2015 school year, RMMS reported 10.4% suspensions which demonstrated to be higher than the previous years. Additional factors that have had an effect on suspension rates are the limited in house services provided to this particular population at RMMS. Though RMMS does not have an appointed mental health provider or personnel to assist with mental health support on site, students are granted the opportunity to be referred to outside providers/therapist for counseling services. However, this has been a major limitation for our

Louisiana 4-H making a difference in the lives of youth was presented to me as the best presentation we had all semester. This programs main focus is youth development, prevention, and education. For prevention the focus is risk and risk factors, for education it focused on skills and knowledge, and last youth development focused on developmental needs. With these three main focuses they all had three common goals such as eliminating or reducing problems, competency in knowledge or skill, and most importantly maturity. Reaching a very diverse group of youth, grades K-12, it is very important for them to develop and mature each year in the program. The mission of the program is through non-formal research-based, experiential activities, 4-H

A new group of WVU researchers focused on understanding members’ completion rates of 4-H projects. The research keys on another of the three primary West Virginia 4-H service delivery components: experiential learning projects. As a companion to the “4-H Club Members’ Self Report of Meeting Attendance,” study, the current research being conducted by Byars, Hicks, Ingram, Post, and Swint will assess why West Virginia 4-H members do/not complete annual experiential projects. Limited current research has been conducted in the important area of youth development programming. (See Literature Review uploaded.) Therefore, this study which incorporates not only youth voice but volunteer and WVUES faculty/staff responses as well. This research has major implications to add to the body of knowledge including, but not limited to, the development of training curricula for volunteers and faculty, and project development.

They accept volunteers and have events with food, drinks and game to get to know all the parent and children better.

Polk county school district is the eighth largest in Florida and the thirteenth in the country. There are more than one hundred and fifty public school and more than one hundred thousand students. This makes Polk county the largest employer of over thirteen thousand employees. Polk county has a large diversity of students including “43.9 percent white, 20.7 percent black, 30.2 percent Hispanic, 1.6 percent Asian, 0.5 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native, 3 percent two or more races and 0.1 percent native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander. There are more than 10,600 students whose primary language is other than

Before beginning my volunteer work I faced quite a dilema. Where could I influence children, help them develop their leadership potential, educate them about agriculture, and have fun-all at the same time?

WOOSTER — With funding tight, area 4-H leaders are looking into ways to raise revenues in order to enhance and expand programming.