Quality club experiences

Create quality experiences for your club

A high-quality youth program is one that has a safe, supportive environment, opportunity for interaction and leadership, and youth as engaged learners. This youth program quality pyramid (Google Doc) is an easy-to-read model of many of the components in a high quality youth learning environment.   

Here are some resources to build a high quality experience for the youth and families in your club.

Beginning your 4-H year

• Welcoming new members and families (Google Doc)

• Goal-setting activities (Google Doc)

• Goal-setting worksheet (Google Doc)

Planning your meeting time

• Pre-meeting activities (Google Doc)

• Roll call topics (Google Doc)

• Satisfying snack ideas (Google Doc)

• Reflection activities (Google Doc)

Activities booklets (2 per page for printing)

• Build program quality 20 minutes at a time Book 1 (Google Doc)

• Even more! leadership & reflection activities Book 2  (Google Doc)

• R.E.E.L ‘em in (reflection/evaluation/engagement/leadership) Book 3 (Google Doc)

Ways to support club members

• Welcoming new members and families (Google Doc)

• Getting to know you (Google Doc)

• Mixers to build relationships (Google Doc)

• Sharing ideas (Google Doc)

• Ideas for dividing up groups (Google Doc)

• Roles for youth leaders in 4-H clubs (Google Doc)

• Scaffolding learning (Google Doc)

Safety on site

• Site safety plan (Google Doc)

• First aid kit contents (Google Doc)

Contact

Karen Beranek, Extension educator, kberanek@umn.edu, 507-337-2800