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
- The Fathers In Focus Conference, a groundbreaking event dedicated to empowering fathers and promoting positive fatherhood practices, is set to take place on October 11, 2024, at the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. This full-day conference aims to inspire, educate, and support fathers in […]
- Rusk County Extension is excited to announce the hiring of the full time 4-H Program Educator, Karrie Groothousen. Over the past six months, the Rusk County Youth and Justice oversight committee has been dedicated to working with the Area Extension Director, Lori Baltrusis, to […]
- In June, youth from across Wisconsin gathered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for the annual Summer Academy event, hosted by UW-Madison Extension’s Positive Youth Development Institute and 4-H. At Summer Academy, youth had the opportunity to build and learn skills to reach goals […]
- Search Wisconsin’s waters for invasive species on August 10th! Snapshot Day is a statewide effort to protect Wisconsin’s streams, lakes, and wetlands by monitoring designated sites for invasive plants and animals that may threaten the state’s wildlife and water Ecosystems. This year is Snapshot […]
- Wisconsin 4-H is excited to announce the 2023 & 2024 Hall of Fame Laureates. The classes include 10 volunteers, supporters, and staff who have impacted Wisconsin 4-H. The laureates were honored in a ceremony at the Wintergreen Conference Center and Clarion Hotel and Suites […]
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
