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.
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
- Sauk County 4-H'er Ruby Taggart taught youth to create collages on playing cards that will be used to support the mental health of farmers through the nonprofit Farmer Angel Network.
- Wisconsin 4-H is excited to announce its 2026 Hall of Fame Laureates. These 4-H volunteers, financial supporters, staff and pioneers made major contributions to the 4-H movement at local, state and national levels. The laureates were honored in a ceremony at the Holiday Inn […]
- Families who participated in the program are invited to gather, share a meal and bring items and photos to share.
- Jason Buck Hornickel is using decades of outdoor education experience to lead Wisconsin 4-H's Shooting Sports Program, camp counselor training projects, nature and science education and a new ATV safety course.
- In March, 35 high school-aged Wisconsin 4-H youth collaborated, connected and cultivated a passion for expanding their minds and their world in Washington D.C. during the National 4-H Council’s annual Ignite and Citizenship Washington Focus (CWF) experiences. Ignite During Ignite, teens from all over […]
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