Building Youth Resilience, Purpose. and Readiness through Positive Youth Development

Call for 90-minute Workshop Proposals! Due March 1, 2024

Building youth resilience, purpose, and readiness through Positive Youth Development is the theme for the 2024 4-H PYD Academy.  Held virtually from May 7-9, 2024, the Academy includes a daily keynote address, panel discussions and reflections, and five capacity-building sessions. Registration opens March 18th, and the Planning Committee is hard at work making preparations for a great time of learning and networking.

We are currently accepting proposals for the 1.5-hour capacity-building sessions related to practical ways your 4-H program is helping youth be healthy, productive, engaged and/or ready for work and life.  What are you doing to teach youth about finding their spark and purpose in life?

Five concurrent capacity-building sessions will be held each afternoon from 3:30pm-5:00pm eastern time.  Proposals are due on close March 1, 2024, at 11:59pm eastern time.

Each proposal can have a maximum of two presenters.  Notifications will be sent on/before March 11, 2024.  Each session will be awarded $250 stipend for their contributions to the overall conference.  Questions can be directed to Capacity-Building Co-Chairs Kasey Bozeman (kaseyb@uga.edu) and Meredith Kreeger (mlkreeger@ncat.edu).