Weekly 4-H Update
Communications >> 4-H Update >> Volume 10, Number 22 .............................................. June 16, 2006
Attachments:
:: 2006 Colorado State Fair Teen Clerks and Adult Volunteer Forms
:: National 4-H Congress application
:: National 4-H Congress fact sheet
Reminders:
- June 16-18: Shooting Sports Family Camp, Victor
- June 20-23: State 4-H Conference, CSU Campus
- June 22: 4-H Youth Fund board meeting, CSU campus
- June 24-July 1: Citizenship-Washington Focus, Washington, DC
- July 4: University holiday, offices closed
2006 Colorado State Fair Teen Clerks and Adult Volunteers
Needed: willing adult and teen clerks committed to volunteering at 4-H Camp Tobin during the 2006 Colorado State Fair CC attached are forms to complete and submit to our office. Please mail or contact me at: Extension, State 4-H, Colorado State University, 134 Aylesworth Hall NW, Fort Collins, CO 80523-4050, 970. 491.1144 or e-mail susan.cucker@colostate.edu.
Note: We provide free meals and lodging at 4-H Camp Tobin for volunteers who work four or more hours. — Susan Cuckler
2006 National 4-H Congress Applications due July 1
Applications for county delegates planning to attend National 4-H Congress are due in the State 4-H office by July 1, 2006. Counties are to select their own delegates, as there is no further screening at the state level. For more information, click here.
Applicants are to check with school and/or employers prior to submitting their applications. The dates for this year’s trip are Nov. 24-28 in Atlanta, GA. We make no guarantees that late cancellation will be accepted without financial penalty. Trip deposits will not be refunded. — Ellen Butler
Fewer High School Students Engage in Health Risk Behaviors;
Racial and Ethnic Differences Persist
National, state and local Youth Risk Behavior Studies (YRBS) are conducted every two years among high school students throughout the United States. These surveys monitor health risk behaviors that lead to unintentional injuries and violence; tobacco, alcohol and other drug use; and sexual behaviors that can lead to unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases. The surveys also measure high school students’ dietary behaviors and physical inactivity that can contribute to being overweight.
Nearly 14,000 U.S. high school students participated in the 2005 National YRBS. Data are presented only for black, Hispanic and white students because the sample size of students from other racial/ethnic populations was too small for a meaningful analysis. Parental permission was obtained for students to participate in the survey. Student participation was voluntary, and responses were anonymous. States and cities could modify the questionnaire to meet their needs. The 2005 report includes national data as well as data from surveys conducted in 40 states and 21 large urban school districts.
The National YRBS is one of three HHS-sponsored surveys that provide data on substance abuse among youth. The others are the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and a primary source of statistics on substance use among Americans age 12 and over (www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm), and the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (http://monitoringthefuture.org). MTF tracks substance use among students in the 8th, 10th and 12th grades.
The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data are available at www.cdc.gov/yrbs.
— Jan Carroll
