What is Alabama 4-H?

• Alabama 4-H is the youth development program of Auburn and Alabama A&M Universities. It is delivered through the Alabama Cooperative Extension System offices across the state.
• Four-H is an educational program that provides organized, structured, and directed learning opportunities for youth to become leaders.
• Four-H serves more than 110,000 youth in Alabama through research-based, educational activities.
• Four-H provides youth, ages five to nineteen, from all economic and social backgrounds with leadership opportunities through participating in hands-on educational experiences, research projects, and group events.
• More than 5,000 adults annually volunteer to assist in delivering 4-H programs in Alabama.
• Programs range from traditional agricultural and farm development programs to character building programs in schools to computer and technology programs run at community-based after-school centers.

Alabama 4-H helps young people develop life skills that include making decisions, thinking critically, building relationships, exercising leadership, and developing a concern for the community and the environment. Four-H provides learning opportunities in eight crucial areas:

• Citizenship and Civic Education
• Communicative and Expressive Arts
• Family and Consumer Science
• Environmental Education and Natural Resources
• Healthy Lifestyle Education
• Personal Development and Leadership
• Plant and Animal Sciences
• Science and Technology

Alabama 4-H offers youth a variety of learning experiences within their communities and within the larger world. We strive to make every aspect of 4-H programs and activities interesting and beneficial to successfully attract and retain youth participation. Young people are engaged in hands-on/minds-on opportunities to learn in environments that are experiential, meaningful, inspiring, and fun.