New Hampshire 4-H Members Attend Citizenship Conference

Left to right:Brittany Wheeler, Concord, and Morgan King and Colleen McCormack of Epping

4-H members Morgan King and Colleen McCormack of Epping, and Brittany Wheeler of Concord attended the Northeast 4-H Citizenship Forum in Washington D.C. over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend.

This regional conference, which included about 80 participants from five states, was a youth and adult forum based around the National 4-H mandate of citizenship. Participation was made possible through funding from the 4-H Foundation of New Hampshire.

The focus of the conference for these 4-H members was to learn about citizenship and civic engagement, and create a plan to increase community involvement in their own counties. The conference also included a day of community service, with projects benefitting veterans and their families as well as the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health, a cancer treatment facility.  

As members of the New Hampshire 4-H Teen Council, the teens are considering ways to incorporate lessons on civic engagement into their upcoming 2012 New Hampshire 4-H Teen Conference this summer. The teens hope that by bringing this information back to the Teen Conference they can create a ripple effect and increase civic engagement throughout the state.