What is a 4-H Club?
A 4-H club is a group of young people and adults who meet regularly for fun and learning. Clubs
are usually made up of families from a community and often formed around schools, churches or community centers. Most clubs
hold monthly meetings attended by members and their parents. Club members elect officers who lead the group and the meetings.
An adult club leader advises the officers. The meetings usually last less than two hours. The time is equally divided among
club business, recreation and educational programs. A well-organized 4-H club meeting provides opportunities for every member
to be involved
Our Mission
Oklahoma 4-H Mission
The mission of the 4-H Youth Development Program
is to provide Oklahoma youth, families, and communities with educational programs which will create environments for diverse
audiences of youth and adults to reach their fullest potential. In support of this mission we will:
Provide community
based experiential learning through clubs, school enrichment, special interest programs, and mass media.
Help youth develop
skills that will benefit them throughout life.
Foster leadership and volunteerism for youth and adults.
Build internal
and external partnerships for programming and resource development.
Strengthen families and communities.
Use research-based
knowledge and the land grant university system and other sources.
4-H Volunteers Creed
BELIEVE:
- The 4-H member is more important than the 4-H project.
- Learning how to do the project
is more important than the project itself.
- 4-Hers should be their own best exhibits.
- No award is worth sacrificing
the reputation of a member or a volunteer.
- Competitions should be given no more emphasis than other fundamentals of
4-H work.
- Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.
- To learn by doing is fundamental in any sound educational program
and is characteristic of the 4-H program.
- Generally speaking, there is more than one good way to do most things.
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Every 4-H member needs to be noticed, to feel important, to win and to be praised (volunteers, too).
Our job as
a volunteer is to teach 4-H member how to think, not what to think.
Volunteers Making a Better Tomorrow Today is the theme of National Volunteer Week. The 4-H Volunteers
Creed illustrates the importance our program places on volunteers developing capable and competent youth. 4-H volunteers are
some of our greatest assets and resource. These valuable individuals donate their precious time, creative talents and physical
resources to our 4-H members and the program.
Volunteers inspire the people they help and they inspire others to serve. Now it is our turn to step forward
and inspire by example.
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