4-H
Vernon County 4-H
Welcome to Vernon County 4-H!
We strive to provide opportunities for youth to practice leadership, learn new things, and laugh and have fun along the way! Your experience with 4-H is all about the time and effort you put into it! We deeply encourage members to be active by registering for county-wide programming and travel experiences, participating in both leadership positions and activities within your club, and contributing to county-wide projects.
So, how do you keep up with everything? Check out our bi-monthly newsletter, link into our Facebook page, or bookmark our Current 4-H Programs, Trips, and Opportunities website page.
Voice of 4-H Newsletter Editions
2025
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Vernon County Thrives
High quality 4-H program settings provide youth a place to belong, matter and explore their personal spark. High quality settings foster developmental relationships with youth, relationships that express care, challenge growth, and share power. These components help ensure that
4-H programs provide a nourishing developmental context – a place where youth can belong and grow.
High quality 4-H programs contribute to PYD (positive youth development) through the intentional promotion of social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral habits of mind. In the 4-H Thriving Model this process of PYD is described by seven indicators of thriving: Openness to challenge and discover, growth mindset, hopeful purpose, pro-social orientation, transcendent awareness, positive emotionality and self-regulation though goal setting and management.
Youth who experience high quality developmental settings in 4-H with an emphasis on these key social-emotional skills achieve key positive youth development outcomes, including academic motivation and success, social competence, high personal standards, connection with others, personal responsibility, and contribution to others through leadership and civic engagement.
Youth who achieve positive developmental outcomes are more likely to also achieve long-term outcomes marked by vocational or academic success, civic engagement, employability and economic stability and happiness and well being.
Latest 4-H News
- The medieval-themed Wisconsin 4-H Arts Camp 2025 was a triumphant celebration of the arts in October. Nearly 140 intrepid artist-campers in grades 6-8, counselors, and adult guides journeyed to the shores of the mighty Wisconsin River at Fort Upham Woods. During two days of […]
- Interested in meeting 4-H members from throughout Wisconsin and exploring your unique Sparks through exciting statewide opportunities? Apply to join the Wisconsin 4-H Ambassador Teams for Arts, Ag, and Leadership! Applications will be opening soon in 4-H Online. The Wisconsin 4-H Leadership Ambassadors will […]
- Come learn more about the new peer-reviewed, award-winning 4-H curriculum on how to make Regalia for powwow dancing! When: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 4:00-4:45 PM CT (5:00-5:45 PM ET | 2:00-2:45 PM PT) Location: Zoom Registration Link Featuring: Sofie Teller, Author and Menominee County/Nation […]
- It’s official — the entire state is celebrating National 4-H Week! By proclamation of Gov. Tony Evers, Oct. 5-11, 2025, is National 4-H Week throughout Wisconsin. See the proclamation, also signed by Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, below.
- To celebrate National 4-H Week (Oct. 5-11), we spoke with three 4-H alumni who have put the skills they learned in clubs into action in college and their careers.
Staff
If you have any questions regarding 4-H in Vernon County, please contact:
Emery Bork
4-H Educator
Email: emery.bork@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-637-5279
