Volume 3, Issue 4

Cloverbud Day Camps

4-H Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see has two exciting Cloverbud day camps scheduled for the summer of 2002. The dates are Friday, June 21, 2002 and Saturday, June 29, 2002. Camp begins at 10:00 a.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m. The fee is $6.00 per person attending and this includes program activities and lunch. A parent or guardian must accompany each Cloverbud member to the day camp. Be sure to bring a swimming suit and towel. Each participant is asked to wear tennis shoes. The day’s schedule for each date will include a camp tour; recreation, craft, and nature activity; lunch and pool time. A registration form is attached to this newsletter or may be downloaded from the 4-H Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see web site at www.campshaw.org or by calling 1-800-207-SHAW. Cloverbud day camp might make a great group summer outing!

New Cloverbud Volunteer Orientation Video

Each Extension Office has a new Cloverbud volunteer orientation video available for loan after June 6, 2002. The video was produced by Ohio State University and coincides with the Level I and Level II Cloverbud curriculums that we use from OSU. The twenty-six minute video contains six different sections. The segments include: introduction, program parameters, use of Cloverbud curriculum, organization of a Cloverbud group, creation of positive learning environments, and expectations of Cloverbud volunteers. If you have new parents or other adults involved with your Cloverbud group, consider checking this video out and showing it at a parent meeting or to an individual parent.

Positive Youth Development through…4-H Cloverbuds

There are eight critical elements that are necessary to promote positive youth development. The eight elements are:

• Positive relationship with caring adults
  
• Welcoming environment
  
• Opportunity for mastery/competence
  
• Opportunity to value and practice service to others
  
• Emotionally and physically safe environment
  
• Opportunity for self-determination
  
• Opportunity for engagement in learning
  
• Opportunity to see one’s self as an active participant in the future
  

In the next few issues of the Cloverpatch, we will be exploring each element and sharing ways that Cloverbud volunteers can incorporate these elements into their program.

Your Reaction, Please!

This issue of the Cloverpatch newsletter marks the conclusion of three years of distribution of this newsletter. Extension staff are interested in your thoughts on the usefulness of the newsletter to you as a Cloverbud volunteer. We are also interested in your suggestions of topics for inclusion in future issues. Please send your thoughts to Sheri Seibold, Extension Educator Youth Development via e-mail at seibolds@mail.aces.uiuc.edu or via mail to 5527 Miller Circle Dr. Suite C, Matteson, Illinois 60443. We will begin compiling reactions in July. So let us know what you think!

1. How useful has the Cloverpatch been for you as a Cloverbud volunteer? Very helpful; helpful; somewhat helpful; not helpful.
   
2. What topics for articles would you like to see in future issues of the newsletter?
   
3. What other information would you like to have included in the newsletter?
   
4. How helpful has the County Cloverbud update section been for you? Very helpful; helpful; somewhat helpful; not helpful.

Written by: Sheri Seibold, Extension Educator – Youth Development from University of Illinois Matteson Extension Center.