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During the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents Conference held in Columbus, Ohio there were a number of sessions addressing urban youth programs as well as an Urban Programming working group meeting. This group compiled a toolkit called Meeting the Needs of Youth in Urban Areas containing resources for others to utilize. Follow this link to check out the toolkit.
To join the urban working group – 4-H educators should go to nae4ha.com, sign-in, navigate to groups, available groups, then click on "+ join group."
Posted In: 4-H Youth Development, City CED, Meetings/Conferences, Thriving Across the Lifespan, Urban Serving Universities
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My Brother’s Keeper Ohio was launched this week with the guidance of The Ohio State University Kirwan Institute. This statewide partnership is committed to the success of boys and young men of color. My Brother’s Keeper nationwide initiative was created by former President Barack Obama in 2014. The focus of the initiative is about improving opportunities for young, minority men. Visit this link for more information on the Kirwan Institute or to read more about the initiative as reported in Ohio State’s The Lantern.
Extension Leadership Conference 2019 - Sponsored by JCEP
Cultivating Leaders
Request for proposals for concurrent leadership development sessions are now being accepted for the 2019 Extension Leadership Conference. Information about the conference can be found by following this link.
Request for Proposals Guidelines
Posted In: City CED, Meetings/Conferences, Urban Serving Universities, Urban-Rural Connection
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Through eight richly detailed oral histories, Jumping into Civic Life helps open our imaginations to the possibilities for professionals to make constructive contributions to the task of making democracy work as it should. The firsthand stories of public work in these oral histories are told by professionals from six states who chose or were invited to jump into civic life as active participants. Their stories help us see what it means and takes to be a "citizen professional" who respects and supports the capacities, intelligence, expertise, and agency of others.
The book's editors are Scott J. Peters, professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University; Theodore R. Alter, professor of agricultural, environmental, and regional economics and codirector of the Center for Economic and Community Development at Penn State; and Timothy J. Shaffer, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the assistant director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University. Follow this link to order a book.
Sourced from the Kettering Foundation newsletter
The Columbus and Franklin County Local Food Action Plan (LFAP) continues to reap the harvest of its commitment to neighborhood health and wellness. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the Farmers’ Market Management Network dba Ohio Farmers Market Network is the recipient of a $265,284.28 USDA grant to fund increased access to locally and regionally produced agricultural products in Central Ohio. Follow this link to read the complete article.
Sourced from the City of Columbus press release
Posted In: Ag & Natural Resources, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health and Wellness in the City, Sustainable Food Systems
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Young people in America face an economic landscape marked by increasingly expensive higher education costs, more frequent job changes, and greater personal responsibility for retirement savings. It is more important than ever that youth are financially literate in order to navigate the many difficult decisions they will face during their lifetimes. Follow this link to read the complete article.
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Posted In: 4-H Youth Development, Family & Consumer Sciences, Thriving Across the Lifespan, Workforce Development
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Roughly 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day in the United States. They don’t all own small businesses, but their aging presents an opportunity for more workers to get the chance to own businesses and even build some wealth. Follow this link to read the complete article.
Sourced from NextCity
Posted In: Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Family & Consumer Sciences, Thriving Across the Lifespan, Workforce Development
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Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has launched an interactive data tool to help community leaders build grassroots strategies to address the opioid epidemic.
The opioid misuse Community Assessment Tool enables users to overlay substance misuse data against socioeconomic, census and other public information. This data will help leaders, researchers and policymakers assess what actions will be most effective in addressing the opioid crisis at the local level.
The Community Assessment Tool is free and available to the public. It can be accessed on USDA’s Rural Opioid Misuse Webpage or at opioidmisusetool.norc.org.
Sourced from USDA Rural Development newsletter
Posted In: City CED, Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health and Wellness in the City, Urban-Rural Connection
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Posted In: 4-H Youth Development, Ag & Natural Resources, City CED, Community Development, Engaged Ohioians, Vibrant Communities, Environmental Quality, Family & Consumer Sciences, Health and Wellness in the City, Sustainable Food Systems, Thriving Across the Lifespan, Urban Serving Universities, Urban-Rural Connection, Workforce Development
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Could you use some funding to plan or kickstart a public engagement project in your community? Applications for small grants will be accepted until November 20, 2018, and recipient(s) will be announced by January 15, 2019.
Grants are provided to individuals to enable them to develop an understanding of deliberative democracy and launch one or more deliberative dialogues in their communities and organizations in order to advance National Issues Forums Institute's (NIFI) overall mission, which is to promote public deliberation about national issues. Follow this link to read more and to download an application.