Volunteers Needed For 4-H Youth Program

Walpole - Adult volunteers are currently needed for a couple of hours each month to serve as club leaders for local 4-H clubs. The role of a 4-H Volunteer Leader is to provide skills from your own area of expertise while developing a meaningful relationship with youth. Especially needed are volunteers with skills in crafts, dog obedience, horse care, small animal care such as rabbits, and general science.
The goal of the 4-H program is to help youth, ages 5 to 18, become competent, caring adults through positive mentoring, learning how to take community action, and increasing their sense of self-esteem, responsibility, fairness, trust, and decision making techniques. The 4-H Office provides training, resource materials, activity curriculum, and support.
“We need people who have an interest in spending time with young people and who want to learn alongside them,” says Jay Field, Extension 4-H Educator in Bristol and Norfolk Counties.
For more information on how you can make an impact on the youth in your community, contact the 4-H Office at 508-668-9793 (Walpole) or check out our state 4-H website at www.mass4h.org. 4-H is the outreach education program in youth and family development of the University of Massachusetts Extension in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture.