• Increase the quality of youth involvement in all rural and urban Extension youth development programs.
• Increase by 10 percent each year the number of young people reached by all aspects of Extension youth development and 4-H in both rural and urban settings.
• Expand the outreach of 4-H so that Alabama 4-H reflects local and state demographics and social and economics realities.
• Increase by 10 percent each year the number of junior and senior high school participants.
Implementation
• Develop a process through which 4-H continually assesses the needs and interests of Alabama youth and evaluates the relevance of 4-H programs and curricula.
• Provide relevant, current, state-of-the-art educational projects, programs, activities, and events.
• Go where the youth are and where the needs are.
• Constantly evaluate the educational objectives of all 4-H programs, events, and relationship to the four-fold youth development model and the System's program priorities.
• Increase the number of after-school programs, community-based clubs, special interest groups, conferences, workshops, and seminars on subjects of interest to Alabama's young people.
• Provide appropriate educational materials for youth based on needs of young people and current research on youth learning and interests.
• Implement a comprehensive, multi-tiered youth
leadership development institute for
Alabama.