What is 4-H Afterschool?

• For young people...4-H Afterschool provides opportunities to participate in fun, exciting programs while developing valuable skills with lifelong benefits.
• For parents and family members...4-H Afterschool creates safe, healthy, enriching environments that enhance young people’s social, emotional, physical, and academic success.
• For volunteers...4-H Afterschool offers an opportunity to share a special skill with young people.
• For youth-serving orgnizations...4-H Afterschool offers extensive resources to help train staff, implement sound youth development practices, create new after-school programs, and strengthen existing programs.
• For communities...4-H Afterschool is a partner that builds unique, customized programs around the diverse interests and needs of youth.

4-H Afterschool works with urban, suburban and rural communities to identify their areas of need and interest and then build customized programs to meet those needs.

The innovative "learn-by-doing" curricula 4-H offers cover an impressive array of topics, including, CItizenship and Civic Education, Communication and Expressive Arts, Consumer and Family Science, Environmental Education and Earth Science, Healthy Lifestyle Education, Personal Development and Leadership, Plants and Animals, Science and Technology

These research-based, ready-to-use curricula set 4-H Afterschool apart and help young people to achieve social, emotional, physical, and academic success. Each curriculum provides youth with valuable skills such as leadership, collaboration, decision-making, civic responsibility, and critical thinking.

4-H Afterschool provides training and technical assistance to help youth development organizations at the local, state, and national levels.

Topics include Understanding Child Growth and Development, Experiential Learning, Guidance and Discipline, Ages and Stages of Development, Health and Nutrition, Working with Special Needs Audiences, Managing Multi-Age Groups, Working with Parents and the Community.