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
- Summer Academy is a four day educational experience set for June 16-19, 2025 on the UW-Madison campus! Youth will participate in a track that will give them the chance to learn about potential career and college opportunities within that content area. They will be […]
- Jackson County 4-H is collaborating with the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley in Black River Falls and Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Services to add 4-H to their afterschool programing. 4-H Educator Alex Galston leads fourth and fifth grade youth biweekly in […]
- For many young 4-H’ers, the bond between handler and animal is built in the show ring, the barn, or the pasture—but for Addison Connolly, that connection happens at top speed on an agility course! On March 2, 2025, Coach Susan Cochran announced the American […]
- Hello everyone! My name is Erin Sabo, and I’m thrilled to introduce myself as the new Langlade County 4-H Educator. I’m excited to be joining this incredible program and can’t wait to see what’s ahead for all of us! I grew up in North […]
- My name is Amy Boelk, and I am excited to introduce myself as the newest member of the Portage County Extension Office and Portage County 4-H team. I am thrilled to have the pleasure of joining this incredible community of passionate professionals, volunteers, parents, […]
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
