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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024 RYS Danby Annual ReportRYS Danby Program Manager Vacant Former Program Manager Heidi Doggett RYS Coordinator Shelley Lester sjl44@cornell.edu RYS Danby offers year-round programing for elementary and middle school aged youth. Programs supported by Tompkins County Youth Services, Danby Youth Commission and the Town of Danby. RYS Assistant Coordinator Athena Steinkraus ahs38@cornell.edu 2024 Annual Report2024 Annual Report Rural Youth ServicesRural Youth Services DanbyDanby Cornell Cooperative Extension is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer Caption: After a great program Danby youth visit the newly opened Danby Food and Drink to enjoy some yummy treats - giving a thumbs up review. Asian Balalnce Prefer not to State White White 67 Balalnce 4 Asian 2 Hispanic Non-Hispanic Non-Hispanic 71 Hispanic 4 8 years 10 Years 11 Years 12 Years 13 Years 14 Years 15 Years 16 Years 12 Years 20 11 Years 14 13 Years 13 14 Years 12 10 Years 8 15 Years 5 8 years 2 Female Male Non-Binary Transgender Other Male 39 Female 31 Non-Binary 3 Other 1 Total Programs: 34 Total Program Hours: 464 Total Duplicated Count: 259, Total Unduplicated Count: 75 LIFE SKILLS RYS Program Managers are youth development professionals when designing programs, they intentionally target life skills for every program offering. RYS Programming focuses on developing skills that are healthy and productive for both youth and their communities. Positive youth development programs identify the skills within the five targeted competency areas that are appropriate to the age of the youth in the programs. Skills are best learned through practice; many experiences that teach or reinforce skills must be provided. Mastery of any skill requires opportunities to try, make mistakes, and try again. The following graphic represents a system for targeting skills that lead to mastery of targeted competencies. Developing Youth Curriculum Using the Targeting Life Skills Model” Developed by Iowa State Extension The chart represents the life skills that were target in 2024 for programming. Danby Rural Youth Services Success Story 2024 In 2022, Danby’s first Halloween costuming program for 4-5 graders filled quickly, with a total of 11 participants and more asking to get in. Youth in this program had so much creativity and enthusiasm. They also needed a lot of guidance. Every step, from designing to planning materials, time management, and threading needles, required help from the adult educator. A few lost interest before finishing costume pieces, quit from frustration, or faced a stressful rush to finish after changing their minds and starting over. Some struggled with fine coordination tasks like cutting in a straight line or sewing by hand, potentially because of missed classroom craft time during the pandemic. Still, at the end of the program, every youth had a costume. The program seemed a net positive for everyone. Over the next few years, a handful of youth from that group would show up regularly for crafting programs. Their planning skills, fine coordination, and frustration tolerance advanced steadily, with many program projects specifically targeted to challenge them in these areas. The 2023 Halloween costume program saw them tackling tougher projects, seeing more tasks through to the end, and needing just a little less help and external structure from the program educator. One ambitious costumer learned how to age mummy bandages using coffee and tea. One day they accidentally bandaged themselves into their mummy shirt and had to be cut out of it. With encouragement, they tried again. This dead end wasn’t a waste of time; they’d simply learned what not to do. In 2024, this core cohort graduated to middle school. Again, they signed up for the Halloween costuming program. But this year they didn’t need much prompting to make sketches and break down a list of materials and goals. Several of these experienced youth made most of their costume at home. They didn’t need help any more. They came because they wanted to be there. On Friday October 25, youth had the day off school. Several youth from the experienced cohort signed up for an all-day costume and craft extravaganza. The youth who had made the mummy costume last year wanted to be a devil with wings, horns, a tail, and a pitchfork. They brought in yards of twisted red and white wire and spent hours separating the twisted colors with a friend and re-twisting the red into pitchfork tines and a tail. They only needed an occasional check-in with an adult; usually just to show off their progress. They still relied heavily on educators to make their wings, but now they know how to experiment on their own in the future. This Halloween, these youth showed how hard they’ve worked over the last three years. To bolster their natural creativity and skill, this group needed adult encouragement to power through frustration, risk failure, learn from it, and try again. They learned an important strategy: brainstorm, break down the big goal into small ones, and then plan how to accomplish each little piece so that mini victories add up to a big success over time. That strategy will continue to help them put their ideas into action as they get older. Once they’ve learned how to tackle costumes, who knows where else they’ll go? Date Training Hours Organization Location 1/4/2024 RPG TherapeuticsTraining 6 RPG Therapeutics On line 1/18/2024 Ultra Camp/ training wheels Kit 1.5 CCETC RYS CCETC 2/15/2024 Advocacy Center Materials -Teen Dating 0.5 CCETC RYS CCETC 2/23 - 2/24/2024 4-H Shooting Sports 16 New York State 4-H Balston Spa NY 3/21/2024 Expense Codes/ purchasing 0.25 CCETC RYS CCETC 3/21/2024 Clyde Survey 0.5 CCETC RYS CCETC 4/18/2024 Clyde Survey Dashboard 0.5 CCETC RYS CCETC 5/23/2024 Ultra camp and Program Recruiting, forms,etc 0.75 CCETC RYS CCETC 6/7/2024 Summer Risk Management/team building skill share 7 CCETC RYS Myers Point 6/24/2024 Adult CPR & RTE 12 Red Cross Hybrid 9/10/2024 Puppet Making 2 Project Puppetts On line 9/11/2024 Special Effects Makeup Training 1 Ben Nye On line 9/19/2024 Puppet Making 2 Puppet Nerd On line 9/20/2024 Ultra Camp, Program Reports, bookkeeping, skill share 4 CCETC RYS Littletree Orchards 10/17/2024 Team Building / procedures / GPS System 2 CCETC RYS CCETC 11/14/2024 Preventing and Handling Workplace Violence 0.75 CCETC On line 11/17/2024 Civil Rights Compliance 0.25 CCETC On line 11/21/2024 Engery Program/ Procedures/ team building 2 CCETC RYS CCETC 11/21/24 Sexual Harrassment Prevention 1 CCETC On line 11/25/2024 Driving the Theory to Practice 4 NY State 4-H On line Total 64 Heidi Doggett Professional Development Log