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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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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NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research,
education, and extension and seeks to make transformative discoveries
that solve societal challenges.
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