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
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
- Monday, September 30th was a busy day at the Kewaunee County Fairgrounds, with the first annual Taste of 4-H Open House. A combination of open house and project day, this free event introduced new families to 4-H and also gave current 4-H’ers and family […]
- National Dairy Conference-Visit to the Crave Farm The first 4-H Dairy Conference materialized after Guy C. Noble proposed to the International Dairy Show Committee in 1954 that a program should be specifically designed for 4-H youth involved in dairy achievement projects. Several state 4-H […]
- Barron County 4-H, in collaboration with the Barron County Fair, set a goal to sew 300 placemats during their fair, sparking new excitement for the 4-H sewing project! Their project will continue during the fall and winter months, as youth, families, volunteers, and community […]
- Do you ever feel like you’re running out of ideas for icebreakers or ways to help youth connect? The 4-H Harmony Guide: Meet Up, Buddy Up, is a set of hundreds of cards and activities you can use with youth of all ages. Best […]
- Looking for Learning Resources in science and technology? Try the STEM Pathways Curriculum developed by the Ohio State University 4-H! The STEM Pathways equation is simple: Engagement + Problem Solving = Learning. The STEM Pathways Challenges concentrate on a real-world problems that task young […]
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
