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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