Leadership Development: Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD)

Dr. Kristina Hains, Contributing author
A complete curriculum addressing all aspects of leadership that are important in community settings. The curriculum is broken down into three sections – Personal Leadership Skills, Organizational Leadership Skills and Community Leadership Skills – and include publications, facilitator’s guides, PowerPoint presentations and evaluations for general community audiences.

Group Mentoring
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
Mentoring serves an invaluable purpose, offering youth the resources they need for positive development. Meaningful relationships are the foundation for building strong connections and community ties, and caring adults can serve as allies to help foster youth development. While the one-on-one match is ideal for youth-adult mentoring relationships, it is often not a feasible approach for many community-based youth serving organizations. Group mentoring models offer a practical alternative.

Extension faculty in the Community and Leadership Development Department have created resources and programs for Extension agents and for use in education and leadership development programming. The tools and resources below were developed to expand leadership for individuals, teams, organizations, and to develop more collaborative communities. For more information and resources on leadership development, contact the following Extension Faculty:

Dr. Kenneth Jones, Youth Leadership Development and leadership development evaluation

Dr. Daniel Kahl, Interpersonal, Organizational, and Community leadership development.

Resources for Individual and Team Leadership Education and Skill Building

Leadership Development: Kentucky Extension Leadership Development (KELD)
Dr. Kristina Hains, Contributing author and lead contact
A complete curriculum addressing all aspects of leadership that are important in community settings. The curriculum is broken down into three sections – Personal Leadership Skills, Organizational Leadership Skills and Community Leadership Skills – and include publications, facilitator’s guides, PowerPoint presentations and evaluations for general community audiences.

Empowering Leaders In Kentucky (ELK) Materials
Dr. Kristina Hains, Author
The Empowering Leaders in Kentucky (ELK) program has been created to help Extension agents in learn how to be better community leaders, and to assist them in bringing that knowledge to families within their communities. The curriculum includes Extension publications and paired teaching outlines, focused on several basic leadership concepts.

Turning Lemons into Lemonade
Dr. Ron Hustedde, Author
A curriculum resource to identify conflict, understand causes, and develop skills to reduce conflict and improve relationships. Useful for personal reflection and growth, as well as for use in teams or leadership development programs.

Community Issues Gatherings: A Tool For Resolving Controversy
Dr. Ron Hustedde, Author
This issue of CD Practice provides tools for healthy listening during public controversies. Issues are framed in a neutral way with three or four choices for addressing differences. Ground rules and format are designed to minimize the ‘us versus them’ approach towards difficult issues.

Developing Youth Leaders (and Adults to Support Them)

Group Mentoring
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
Mentoring serves an invaluable purpose, offering youth the resources they need for positive development. Meaningful relationships are the foundation for building strong connections and community ties, and caring adults can serve as allies to help foster youth development. While the one-on-one match is ideal for youth-adult mentoring relationships, it is often not a feasible approach for many community-based youth serving organizations. Group mentoring models offer a practical alternative.

Adult Development: Preparing Adults for Youth Development
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
Adult development is a strategy to help adults acquire the skills to build stronger intergenerational relationships, with emphasis on adults partnering effectively with youth in the community.

Community Youth Development
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
Community Youth Development (CYM) is an approach that focuses on a young person’s community as “a village” for developmental aid.

Mentoring Youth in 4-H
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
This publication emphasizes the role of mentoring in 4-H. Given that adult support is the most critical factor in a young person’s life, 4-H youth development professionals must acquire ways to capitalize on adult volunteers.

Youth-Adult Partnerships: Are You There Yet?
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
In order for young people to succeed as future leaders, they must have experiences to develop critical life skills today. Youth-Adult partnerships provide young people with opportunities to serve their communities, while enhancing their leadership abilities. In turn, adult partners also learn from what youth can contribute. This publication provides an overview of this concept, as well as an assessment tool to determine the effectiveness of youth and adults working together as change agents.

Applying Positive Youth Development to County 4-H Program Principles
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
This Extension publication provides techniques that can be used to incorporate positive youth development approaches within local 4-H program efforts.

Positive Youth Development Resources at a Glance
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
This document provides a list of foundational research and toolkits that formed the more contemporary principles around youth development.

Positive Youth Development and 4-H: Making the Connection
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
This publication highlights the authentic intent of 4-H as a premiere resource for all youth. The pub further provides insight on how the organization is more than just a provider of activities, but a vessel to empower youth to make a difference in the world around them.

Positive Youth Development
Dr. Kenneth Jones, Author
Youth Development can and will occur within any environment. Young people will tap into any resource they can find to meet their needs. Positive Youth Development (PYD) is a concept that takes youth development to the next level, ensuring that youth have exposure to all the ‘positive’ things to better prepare them for the future. This publication identifies those assets (caring adults, extra-curricular activities, leadership opportunities, etc.) that can make a difference in a child’ s future trajectory.
 

Resources for Developing Community-Based Leadership

Community Leadership Priorities Assessment
Dr. Daniel Kahl, Author
A survey tool to be used when planning or updating a leadership program. Assessment identifies the leadership development outcome priorities of surveyed members.

Aligning Leadership Programs with Community Development
Dr. Daniel Kahl, Author
This publication explores ways to align learning in Community-based Leadership Development Programs with direct community change outcomes.

Leadership Development as a Method of Community Development
Dr. Daniel Kahl, Presenter
This 10-Minute video presentation details how community-based leadership programs can be more intentional to assess community priorities and design their programs for community development outcomes. This presentation can be used to spark conversation or planning ideas for local leadership programs.

Leading Healthy Community Connections
Dr. Daniel Kahl, Author
Based on a shared read and book review, this curriculum was created to help community members learn about community change, and then take action to create it. The materials were developed with SNAP in mind, and are geared toward discovering community Policies, Systems, and Environmental aspects impacting health.

Leadership Storytelling Program
Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Contact
Trained by Marshall Ganz at Harvard, Nicole Breazeale will soon introduce a leadership storytelling program through Kentucky Cooperative Extension. Coaching in this method helps public leaders to tell their own personal story in a way that illustrates shared values and mobilizes people to push through fear and apathy and act on improving their community.