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About Us
County Impact Statements - Phillips County
Broadening the Mind - School Enrichment Makes a Difference
The number of 4-H community clubs in Phillips County have made a sharp
decline over the years from 9 community clubs in 1996 to 1 community club in
2001. That’s a 11 percent drop in community clubs county wide.
The Phillips County 4-H program has had to compete with many other outreach
programs within the county.
Youth have many more choices of programs that are available to them. In
addition to this factor is the pool of 4-H volunteer leaders that are needed to
implement the County 4-H program from a community club stand point. The numbers
have fallen from 72 4-H volunteer leaders in 1996 to 1 4-H volunteer in 2001.
Most of the families are single parent families with the one parent being the
sole means of providing for children through work which does not free the parent
up to work with youth.
In an effort to reach youth through the Phillips County 4-H programs, efforts
were made, through the guidance of the county 4-H Expansion and Review
Committee, to focus attention on doing more school enrichment programs in order
to reach youth.
Work with the 21 century program which received grants to conduct after
school tutoring programs for youth was done to plan weekly after school session
with youth concerning basic life skills. Basic life skills include:
decision-making, keeping records, critical thinking, learning to learn,
character, self esteem, teamwork, self discipline, nuturing relationships,
sharing, empathy, concern for others, accepting differences, conflict
resolution, social skills, cooperation, communication, etc.
10 school enrichment programs on Chemical Safety, Spring Garden and Soil
Fertility, Respecting Differences, and Empower and Trust were conducted reaching
a total of 234 youth.
4-H’ers preparing for skit on "Respecting Differences"
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Impacts
- 234 youths participated in educational programs designed to teach basic
life skills.
- 1 youth reported in new volunteer leadership positions.
- 1 youth reported in new elected leadership positions.
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