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TENNESSEE 4-H IDEAS IN THIS ISSUE Archiving F600 Forms UPCOMING EVENTS April 20-21
April 21
April 21-24
April 24-26
April 26-27
April 28
May 1
May 1
May 1-2
May 2-4
May 18-20
May 21
May 22
May 22
May 24
May 24
May 29-30
June 1
June 1
June 1
June 1
June 2
June 2-9
June 4-8
June 5
June 9-10
June 12-15
June 14
June 15
June 18-23
June 19
June 25-28
June 26-29
Tennessee 4-H Home Page: 4h.tennessee.edu Online version of Ideas: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas07 Ideas index: 4h.tennessee.edu/ideas07/07-index.htm UT Risk Management has recently given guidance on the archiving of F600 forms for youth at 4-H events. They have suggested a F600 form (or copy thereof) be kept on file for the last event a 4-H member attends before their membership is terminated. This means one form per member. F600 forms used for events at 4-H centers (junior camp, Ed-venture Camp, etc.) are not required to be kept by the county since copies are kept at the 4-H centers. It should be noted that a copy of all F600 forms from your county should be given to the 4-H centers for events at these facilities upon arrival. Daniel Sarver PHOTO SEARCH DEADLINE IS JUNE 15 Counties should send their 4-H Photo Search entries to the state 4-H office by June 15. Each county is eligible to submit up to ten entries for state judging. All entries should relate in some way to 4-H. Competition is open to junior high and senior 4-H members. A 4-H’er may enter by submitting either a print and the negative, a color slide or a diskette containing the photo in a digital format along with a completed entry form. The information you will need to conduct your county competition is available online:
Steve Sutton Plans are underway for the Tennessee State 4-H Shoot, April 20-21, in Columbia. Rules and registration information were sent via email in March. The deadline has passed for registration. The State 4-H Shoot will feature the rifle and shotgun disciplines. Plans are to make the State 4-H Shoot an annual event, qualifying youth for the National 4-H Shooting Sports Invitational. This year nationals will be held June 25-28 in Rapid City, South Dakota. High school-aged youth are eligible to participate. This is the first time in a number of years that Tennessee will be represented at this national event. Daniel Sarver STATE 4-H TARGET SMART SHOOTING SPORTS TRAINING A state 4-H Target SMART shooting sports training event will take place on August 10-11 at Ridley 4-H Center in Columbia. This event will be similar to the one on February 16-17, also held at Ridley. Participants will select one discipline in which to be trained as a certified 4-H shooting sports instructor. Training will include risk management, youth development and instruction techniques specific to the selected discipline. Registration information will be sent via email. Daniel Sarver TAE4-HW CONFERENCE OFFERS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT
Not registered for the conference yet? Not a problem!. Just pay the $10 late registration fee and join your colleagues in Pigeon Forge. Registration information is available at http://extension.tennessee.edu/TAE4HW/events.htm. The registration fee is $70 (postmarked after April 1) and $60 for first-timers. Mail your completed registration form with your check to Amy Gallimore, TAE4-HW Conference, 2621 Morgan Circle, Room 205, Knoxville, TN 37996-4510. Steve Sutton TENNESSEE RECEIVES NATIONAL 4-H COUNCIL HEALTHY LIVING GRANT Tennessee is one of 11 states awarded 2007 Healthy Living grants provided by National 4-H Council in collaboration with Kraft Foods, Inc. These grants will help communities create educational programs and public awareness to confront the climbing trends of youth obesity with an emphasis on physical fitness, nutrition and healthy lifestyles. The grants of up to $7,000 will go to attendees of the 2006 John Deere Leaders Academy to help them implement the state-wide action plans developed at the academy. Each plan will reach a minimum of 500 youth and 100 adults. The 2007 grant recipients are: Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas and Washington State. These grantees offered fun and creative ways for youth and adults to learn about healthy living, through in-school and after-school activities, as well as day and overnight camps. All of the applications stressed youth-adult collaboration, servicing underserved, ethnic or disadvantaged populations which they plan to continue after the one-year grant is over. Tennessee 4-H has coordinated a nutrition, health and fitness specialty camp to help middle-school youth learn best practices for keeping a healthy body. This camp not only reaches youth who attend, but provides the campers with a curriculum kit so they are empowered to return to their communities and teach their peers about healthy lifestyles. As launching a state-wide initiative takes time, Tennessee 4-H has targeted six middle Tennessee counties in which to implement the Healthy Lifestyles initiative. These counties, which surround Nashville, are working with the Tennessee state 4-H youth development staff to provide nutrition and physical education programming to at-risk youth. Many of the youth served come from low-income families, live in impoverished housing developments and lack skills to make healthful decisions. Each of the six targeted county 4-H programs are already working within their own county to provide a foundation for healthy lifestyles and to provide a year-long healthy lifestyles program that features "4-H myself.camp" (modeled after the popular Web site, myspace.com) serving as the culminating experience. "4-H myself.camp" is a three day, two night nutrition, health and fitness camp sponsored by UT Extension. The grant will reach at least 726 youth and 336 adults between the camp and other planned activities. For more information on the great programs planned by these grantees, please visit National 4-H Council’s Healthy Living Web site at www.fourhcouncil.edu/grantskraftfoods.aspx. Alice Ann Moore THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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Need some more hours of training credit to meet your HR 128 requirements? HR 128 is the Human Resources policy that strongly encourages employees or staff at the University of Tennessee to complete a minimum of 32 hours of job- and career-related training
per calendar year. All registered conference participants attending the two seminar sessions and the capstone assembly will receive three hours of credit through the office of Employee and Organizational Development. You will need your personnel number to receive credit so be sure to have that with you when you come to the seminars!
