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Monday, August 8, 2016

Now Accepting Applications for 4-H Conference College Facilitators


 



Expenses paid and college credit available for diverse, college-enrolled youth to serve as leaders at the 2017 National 4-H Conference in Washington, DC.

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August 4, 2016

Now Accepting Applications for 4-H Conference College Facilitators

Dear Colleagues:
The Division of Youth and 4-H in the Institute of Youth, Family, and Community is dedicated to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s Cultural Transformation at USDA and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Director Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy’s commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Civil Rights at NIFA. As part of our effort to implement these initiatives nationally, we ask for your help in forwarding as widely as possible to your networks the below announcement and encouraging highly qualified, diverse college leaders to apply for up to eight college facilitator positions at the 2017 National 4-H Conference here in the DC area. Any enrolled college students with leadership and group facilitation skills are eligible for this opportunity.
Please forward this announcement (or copy and paste the below information) widely to your networks and encourage qualified, diverse youth to apply for the March 2017 Conference.
Again, we thank you in advance for forwarding this announcement to your networks. 
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NIFA encourages qualified, diverse college leaders to apply for new facilitator positions at the 2017 National 4-H Conference.
  • The Division of Youth and 4-H at NIFA is engaging in a mass email campaign to diversify the college facilitator application pool for the March 2017 Conference. Our list includes all NIFA staff, key Cooperative Extension Service stakeholders, and youth-serving federal agencies and national organizations. 
  • The 2017 application form along with instructions and qualification criteria can be found on the 4-H website.
  • Applications are due October 3, 2016 and must be emailed to info@sstewartmeetings.com.
  • Questions should be directed to natl4hconf@nifa.usda.gov.
Background
National 4-H Conference is the premier, national leadership and civic engagement youth event in 4-H and will occur next on March 25-30, 2017. During the Conference, 4-H youth delegates, who are high school students, present their voices in 15 to 30 minute briefings to federal agencies on pressing national topics. College youth serve a major role at the Conference as group facilitators for these high school youth roundtables, guiding the development and presentation of the briefings.  We seek diverse college students with demonstrated skills in leadership, group facilitation, conflict resolution, organization, oral and written presentation to serve as facilitators; membership in 4-H is not a requirement for new college facilitators. College credit is an available option upon request, and facilitators’ expenses are covered (shared room for the week at National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland all meals on campus, round-trip transportation).
 

 

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