Youth-Adult Partnerships

Youth-Adult Partnerships: An Overview

Overview

Youth-Adult Partnerships is an emerging program area that interconnects 4-H youth development with community development. As an application of community youth development, youth-adult partnerships:

recognize youth development is a key part of rebuilding communities, and that every member of a community has a part in creating a healthy community.
view youth as assets to their communities as much as adults, and place youth in equal roles with adults in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs that shape their development, as well as the development of their communities.
create opportunities through 4-H for young people to learn leadership, citizenship, and life skills through shared leadership with adults and youth in community settings.

Youth-adult partnerships may involve youth and adults together in leadership development, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, community mapping, civic activism, and/or governance.

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Youth-Adult Partnership Contact

Steve Henness, VISTA Program Coordinator
University of Missouri 4-H Center for Youth Development
803 Clark Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
TEL: 573/884-6618
hennesss@umsystem.edu

Last Revised 04/04/08