Mark your calendars!
A statewide 4-H Youth Development staff meeting is scheduled for December 14 from 9 AM-3PM at the Laconia Office.
Also, please note: there is a statewide Family and Youth staff meeting scheduled for January 9 at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 274 Pleasant Street in Concord from 9 AM-3PM.
Stay tuned, more information will follow.
Take a moment to visit http://www.4-hbrandnetwork.org/ and register for the site today! This is your place to learn, share and apply ideas to help promote 4-H in your community.
Much more to come! Visit often over the next couple months to find many more great promotional materials including a volunteer recruitment marketing kit and 4-H promotional kits to accompany the public release of Charlotte s Web on December 20, 2006.
Pass the word on to other 4-H members, volunteers and professionals in your states and communities so they can get involved in sharing the great news of 4-H!
Charlotte s Web: Thank you to those who signed up for the 4-H Brand Network during NAE4-HA and attended the special advance screening of Charlotte s Web Monday evening. The Walden Media and Paramount Pictures representatives were thrilled with your enthusiastic response! As thank you notes are always appreciated, and some of you asked for a way to let Walden and Paramount know how much you enjoyed the movie, we wanted to provide you with Laura Stowell s email address, a contact at Walden Media who is working with Paramount to arrange more opportunities for 4-H: laura.stowell@yahoo.com.
Thanks for all you are doing to help the 4-H movement, and please contact us if you need any assistance with your marketing needs!
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Dear Colleagues,
At the recent NAE4-HA conference, there was a request at Dr. Rich Lerner s Super Seminar on the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development to send out publications from the study. Below is a listing of articles that have been published from the study to date.
All of the articles can be found under the Research heading on the Youth Development Staff Resources page at: http://extension.unh.edu/4H/4HYDSR.htm
Here is the reference list:
Alberts, A. E., Christiansen, E. D., Chase, P., Naudeau, S., Phelps, E., & Lerner, R. M. (2006). Qualitative and quantitative assessments of thriving and contribution in early adolescence: Findings from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Journal of Youth Development, 1(2).
Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., Almerigi, J., Theokas, C., Phelps, E., Gestsdottir, S. Naudeau, S., Jelicic, H., Alberts, A. E., Ma, L., Smith, L. M., Bobek, D. L., Richman-Raphael, D., Simpson, I., Christiansen, E. D., & von Eye, A. (2005). Positive youth development, participation in community youth development programs, and community contributions of fifth grade adolescents: Findings from the first wave of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 17-71.
Theokas, C., Almerigi, J., Lerner, R.M., Dowling, E., Benson, P., Scales, P. C., von Eye, A. (2005). Conceptualizing and modeling individual and ecological asset components of thriving in early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 25(1), 113-143.
Theokas, C., & Lerner, R.M. (2006). Observed Ecological Assets in Families, Schools, and Neighborhoods: Conceptualization, Measurement and Relations with Positive and Negative Developmental Outcomes. Applied Developmental Science, 10(2), 61-74.
Theokas, C., Lerner, J. V., Lerner, R.M. & Phelps, E. (2006). Cacophony and change in youth after school activities: Implications for development and practice from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Journal of Youth Development: Bridging Research and Practice, 1(1), http://www.nae4ha.org/directory/jyd/jyd_article.aspx?id=5adc7e52-3885-4fd4-b981-c6e72b9841d1
Rich Lerner s editor is working on getting a .pdf copy of the following chapter:
Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., Almerigi, J., Theokas, C., Phelps, E., Naudeau, S., Gestsdottir, S., Ma, L., Jelicic, H.,. Alberts, A., Smith, L., Simpson, I., Christiansen, E., Warren, D. von Eye, A. (2006). Toward a new vision and vocabulary about adolescence: Theoretical and empirical bases of a positive youth development perspective. In L. Balter, & C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.). Child Psychology: A handbook of contemporary issues (pp. 445-469). New York: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.
They also have an equal number of works in press. I have requested these in press versions and will forward them when they are available.
Regards,
Suzanne Le Menestrel
National 4-H Headquarters
CSREES/USDA
202-720-2297