4-H Youth Development

What is 4-H?

The purpose of the 4-H Youth Development Program is to help young people discover and develop their potential and grow into competent, contributing, and caring citizens. Learn by doing activities, youth-adult partnerships, and research-based educational programs help young people enhance their leadership abilities and develop a wide range of other life skills.

In 4-H there is something for everyone. In Sacramento County we have 18 Community Clubs providing more than 50 different projects. We also have active camp and after school science programs. For a description of some of our programs, please check out the following links.

You can request more information through our online information request.

If you are interested in helping as a volunteer, please check out the "Volunteer" link in our top menu bar!!

4-H Pledge

I pledge...

My Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service,
And my Health to better living,
For my club, my community, my country, and my world!

To join 4-H follow this link: I Want to Join 4-H

Sacramento County 4-H FAQ

Annual Report

Click here for the Annual Report Sacramento County 4-H Leaders' Council 2006 Annual Report

4-H Blog

Data source for California children
Posted 10/12/2011 - Kidsdata.org is a website managed by the Lucile Packard Foundation which provides local data on children in California. Some examples of recent posts on the site includes the cost of making ends meet for California families by county, information on...

Measuring program quality and youth outcomes
Posted 10/7/2011 - The Forum for Youth Investment produced a summary of tools for measuring program quality in 2009, Measuring Youth Program Quality. This report provided guidance on selecting an assessment tool for youth development programs, with information about...

Peter Benson
Posted 10/5/2011 - Youth development advocate and researcher Peter Benson of the Search Institute in Minnesota passed away on October 2 after a battle with cancer. Peter Benson wrote many books and articles about youth development, and helped to develop several important...

Article on the adolescent brain
Posted 10/4/2011 - National Geographic has an interesting article up about Teenage Brains. The first full series of scans of the developing adolescent brain—a National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that studied over a hundred young people as they grew up during the...

Mixed methods research recommendations
Posted 9/8/2011 - The National Institutes of Health has issued new recommendations for best practices in performing mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) research. The authors comment that the use of a combination of methods helps to shed light on complex problems...