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• The 4-H Program has over a 100 year history-- our program today serves youth from rural areas and small towns to cities and suburbs.
• Youth have the opportunity to select from over 60 subjects and activities of interest ranging from aerospace and computer science to photography, arts and crafts, and genealogy.
• 4-H Programs are available in a variety of formats- community clubs, afterschool clubs, and school enrichment to camps and specialized workshops. Activities are facilitated by both professional extension educators and dedicated volunteers.
• 4-H Youth development utilizes hands-on, research-based educational opportunities-- we help youth become competent, caring, confident, connected, and contributing citizens of character.
• We strive to provide youth in our program a safe place to belong; help them to master skills and develop independence; and teach them to give to others and their community.

The Indiana 4-H Youth Development Program is the largest statewide youth serving organization serving nearly 217,000 Indiana Youth in 2008. It is the only youth organization that is affiliated with the state's land-grant institution, Purdue University. Nearly 1 our of every 4 Indiana youth in grades 3-12 were involved in the Indiana 4-H Program in 2008.


A recently released report entitled The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development indicates "the true value of 4-H programs comes not from short-term results or even the effects over a few years. It comes from the programs' influence on lifelong pathways of development."