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Youth Leadership and Personal Development Committee Minutes
The youth leadership curriculum committee met, via conference call on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 2:00 pm. In attendance were: Jackie Bruce, Megan Sinasky, Sam Nicola, Brian Dickinson, Cathy Brady, Roxanne Price, Nancy Stephenson, and Fred Rudy.
The committee decided that they would like to see another curriculum in-service at the March state-wide in-service. Also, they decided to go back to their regions at the next 4-H educators meeting to see if there was interest in regional in-services. If there is interest in regional in-services, those will be scheduled.
The committee also decided that we would contact 4-HCCS to see if the promotional brochures for the curriculum were still available. If so, they would like to get those brochures and send them out to educators. We will also add an insert about the state-wide in-service. Jackie will contact Claudia Mincemoyer to see where she got the display for some of the curriculums that she uses. Finally, we will be encouraging educators at in-services, to reach out to non-extension system audiences (i.e. after school programs, scouts, the national camping association), and let them now about the curriculum.
The committee decided that we would continue to offer the Teen Leadership books and project sheets, but would DISCONTINUE the use of Leadership Skill Development. Jackie will be contacting Lydia to let her know about this decision and an email will be sent to all educators in case they would like to get copies of the discontinued volumes.
This new curriculum will be targeted to leaders that work with cloverbud and early 4-H aged youth. It will focus on the experiential teaching of things like agenda making, parli pro, and meeting management. Suggestions of resources included Jim Diamond from Delaware Valley College, student government advisors who have teams who compete in parli pro competitions and the FFA.
The group was appraised of the progress of the special committee working on a special supplement to Step Up that will specifically target teen councils and capitalizing on and utilizing the strengths of councils and ambassadors.