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Communication Skills
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Auburn's Begin Education Early - BEE 
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: A van-based kindergarten-readiness program in rural south-central Alabama tries to give parents the skills to get their children ready to learn. It also teaches parents about appropriate discipline, positive guidance, and supporting a child's natural curiosity.
CYFAR Program Spotlight: Partnerships for Activism and Social Justice, Michigan
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: PASJ attempts to engage urban youth in seeing social justice issues and engaging them in addressing them. One of the tools used is a photography technique called Photovoice.
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Iowa's Sustaining Families Program 10-14 uses fun games and discussion of family values to foster resistance skills in pre-adolescents and enhance family communication skills. Parents learn appropriate discipline and listening skills.
Passport to the Future, Tennessee
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Literacy and social-emotional skills build upon experiences in infancy. A Tennessee CYFAR program teaches mothers and caregivers to interact appropriately with infants and toddlers and may enhance skills needed in school.
Technology Mentoring Reaches Latino Youth in Washington County, Oregon
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: Since 1996, a mentoring program in Washington County, Oregon has used the latest technology to engage youth in school. Using volunteer mentors from local employers such as Intel, PGE and Hewlett Packard and other generous contributions, the program teaches job skills and keeps youth in school, overcoming pressures to quit school and go to work or get married.
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth
Description: A tool designed to help job seekers write cover letters.
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eXtension Professional Development Sessions
Author: Nordby, Ann
Description: This Program Spotlight focuses on the 'give me 30 minutes and I will teach you something useful' approach to online training adopted by eXtension. Extension staff can learn about technology tools and trends from national experts by attending online professional development sessions or accessing the recordings of these.
Keeping in Touch- When Distance Keeps You Apart
Author: Hill, Melinda
Description: Fact sheet with tips on how to stay in touch with relatives and family members separated by distance.
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Description: This web site, available in Spanish and English, is for parents to help their child become a good reader and a successful student. This site is full of information, ideas, and practical tips on how Spanish-speaking parents can help their children become confident, successful readers. There are ideas on what to do at home, fun reading tips and activities, and much more.
Description: A National 4-H Program of Distinction and a 4-H Families Count award-winner, Cyber Town helps youth to build their technology, reading, writing and research skills. As of 2007, some 200 youth have made significant progress in all four areas, according to descriptive statistics and school report cards.
CYFAR Cluster Programming Areas
Author: CYFERNet Team, ; CYFERnet Editors
Description: The CYFERnet team has put together this section to make your searches for high-quality resources much easier on the six topic areas below! This section contains links to resources on the six most prominent program thrusts (called “clusters”) for current CYFAR Sustaining Community Program (SCP) grant recipients.
Description: A CYFAR New Communities Project, D.C. Reads' mission is to break the chain of illiteracy that ties people to poverty. In its first three years, support from CYFAR has allowed the D.C. Reads project leaders to hire more staff and to develop more diverse partnerships. D.C. Reads employs a reading specialist and program evaluator, as well as a Spanish-speaking extension agent who has played a key role in reaching Hispanic youth. Adapted from the America Reads project model.
Description: A new youth-led Web site that combines a unique, interactive approach to public policy education, youth leadership and online learning with stories and background reports, to stimulate rich online dialogues involving youth in the United States and around the world.
Description: The Oregon Outreach project is a statewide effort that initially provided funding for three counties to hire full-time bilingual, bicultural program assistants. In turn, those assistants worked with agents to introduce 4-H to Latino families. Now in its 10th year and second round of CYFAR support, the project engages a third of Oregon's 36 counties. Some 3,000 Latino youth participated in Oregon 4-H clubs last year alone.
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Description: The Oregon Outreach project is a statewide effort that initially provided funding for three counties to hire full-time bilingual, bicultural program assistants. In turn, those assistants worked with agents to introduce 4-H to Latino families. Now in its 10th year and second round of CYFAR support, the project engages a third of Oregon's 36 counties. Some 3,000 Latino youth participated in Oregon 4-H clubs last year alone.