WSU Thurston County 4-H Youth Development

4-H Mission

4-H empowers youth to reach their full potential, working and learning in partnership with caring adults.

Washington State 4-H Youth Development education creates supportive environments for all youth and families to reach their fullest potential. This will be accomplished through a systemic approach of foundation and mission driven science to meet our goals to:

• provide formal and non-formal experiential learning,
• develop skills that benefit youth throughout life,
• foster leadership and volunteerism in youth and adults,
• build internal and external partnerships for programming and funding,
• strengthen families and communities,
• employ research based knowledge and the land grant university system, and
• embrace and expand the traditions of the 4-H Youth Program.