October 11, 2022
Weber Represents K-State Community in Presenting on a Youth Developmental Pathway to Civic Engagement at National 4-H Professionals Conference
Wade Weber, Assistant Dean in the Office of Student Life, has been invited to speak as a national presenter, delivering a seminar presentation entitled Stories Matter: Teaching Youth Facilitation Skills through Conversation Boot Camp & Community Conversations on Wednesday, October 12, at the National Association of 4-H Youth Development Professionals Annual Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
Since 2019, Kansas 4-H has implemented an intentional three step leadership development pathway for youth through the creation of 1) Conversation Boot Camp, 2) Stories Matter (utilizing Visual Thinking Strategies in partnership with Beach Museum of Art) and 3) Community Conversations - using the National Issues Forum in partnership with K-State's Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy (including the capstone event at Citizenship in Action Day at the Statehouse in mid-February). Weber will be representing the good work of many partnerships across the K-State and Kansas 4-H community.
Thank you to the K-State Community for contributing to the development of tomorrow's leaders through Kansas 4-H, the state's largest youth development program. Together extending the mission of the next generation land grant university to communities across Kansas!
Contributors and partners include: Aliah Mestrovich Seay, Executive Director of UFM; Donna Schenck-Hamlin, Program Associate, co-founder and a facilitator of community partnerships with the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy; Lorenza Lockett, PhD Assistant Professor of Social Work; Lisa Bietau, PhD, retired Manhattan-Ogden School District educator; Kathrine Schlageck, Associate Curator of Education and Kim Richards, Education Specialist from Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Saya Kakim, graduate researcher; Jaryth Barten, Kansas Leadership Center, Program Associate; K-State Students serving as program coordinators/consultants Jackie Hernandez and Chase Jordan.
Generous support given from the Staley School of Leadership Studies, Dean of the College of Agriculture Ernie Minton, College of Agriculture Leadership, specifically Susan Metzger, Ph.D. Senior Executive Administrator to the Dean/Director; K-State Reseach and Extension Leadership including Director For Extension Gregg Hadley; Kansas 4-H Community Vitality Leadership team including Regional 4-H Specialist Beth Hinshaw, Dona Ratliff, program Coordinator for Citizenship in Action; ICDD trained facilitators, and many KSRE local unit agents.