CYFAR 2009 Conference Proceedings

Preconference Events

All-Day Sessions

CYFAR/KaBOOM! Playground Build

Manami Brown, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension-Baltimore City; Eddy Mentzer, National 4-H Headquarters, CSREES/USDA

CYFAR, Maryland 4-H Foundation and Maryland Cooperative Extension- Baltimore City Playground Project (PDF)

4-H National Learning Priorities: Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills

Ellen Rowe, University of Vermont Extension; Jane Haskell, University of Maine Extension

CYFAR projects are involved in building community collaborations to address tough issues and produce results. Strong facilitation skills help staff be catalytic leaders that empower community members to work effectively and efficiently toward mutual goals. Develop an understanding of facilitation core competencies through experiential learning with multiple opportunities for practicing skills. Learn to model productive meeting facilitation where citizens feel and know it is their meeting and that they, in turn, can become community facilitators.

Tools of the Trade II: Inspiring Young Minds to be SET Ready for Life!

Sue Manglallan and Sharon Junge, University of California; Jackie Reilly and Eric Killian, University of Nevada

Tool up on the latest research and cutting edge activities to incorporate science, engineering and technology (SET) content into afterschool programming. Through this interactive workshop, attendees will experience a15-hour afterschool staff training curriculum. Come fill your tool box with hands-on…minds-on methods to inspire young minds and to help them learn the SET abilities they need for the 21st century!

Maryland Cooperative Extension Nutrition and Physical Activity Curricula: Reaching out to Underserved and At-risk Youth through Fun, Effective and Interactive Resources (Host State Pre-conference)

Chrissa Carlson, Sandy Corridon, Rebecca Davis, Lisa Lachenmayr, and Mira Mehta, University of Maryland Cooperative Extension

Maryland Cooperative Extension has a strong commitment to developing effective and engaging nutrition and health-related curricula to meet the needs of youth in afterschool venues. This session will feature programs developed by the Maryland Food Stamp program for after-school audiences including Nutrition Nuggets, and a gardening and nutrition curriculum called Growing Healthy Habits. Also featured are an EFNEP nutrition resource, 7-3-3-1: Healthy Families Having Fun; and a nutrition and physical activity curriculum, Up for the Challenge: Lifetime Fitness, Healthy Decisions. The workshop will consist of a brief overview of each curriculum, as well as hands-on activities taken from each resource to model effective nutrition education techniques. A site visit to a school using Growing Healthy Habits is planned. Transport will be provided.

Afternoon Sessions

Online Collaboration Tools and Communities (CYFERnet Technology computer lab 2)

eXtension and CYFERnet Technology Teams including Vishal Singh, Roger Terrym, Ray Kimsey and Megan O'Neil-Haight

Set up and learn how to work in an online community! After demonstration of the core tool, we'll pick one and help you put together the basic structure of your online community, help you invite others and populate it with resources to get you started. Bring a team of 2-3 people to work together on this effort. Leave with a site you can share and the tools to train your team.