This session will offer participants ideas and ways to implement healthy eating and lifetime fitness in their 4-H, Camping, After-School, EFNEP or ESNY Youth Programs.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - Mary Breyette, Tim Davis.

The Community Improvement Through Youth (CITY) Project, New York’s CYFAR project, employs one of CCE’s Signature Programs, Youth Community Action (YCA) and utilizes a National 4-H Cooperative Curriculum System resource, Public Adventures: An Active Citizenship Curriculum for Youth. The CITY Project uses YCA as an intentional process to promote civic engagement, workforce preparation, and asset development among youth (14-18 years old). Using YCA as its program model, the CITY Project provides the opportunities and supports youth need in order to meet the challenges of growing up in poverty. In Broome County and New York City, CITY Teen Leaders are identifying local problems/issues through community mapping to set achievable goals and work in partnerships with caring adults to create lasting, sustainable changes in their communities. Through paid summer employment, the CITY Teen Leaders are gaining job skills as they undertake and complete community improvement projects.

This session will draw on the CITY Project as an example of how YCA programs benefit youth and have “public value� in their communities. Participants will learn how the CITY Project has actively engaged community collaborators to establish a foundation for long-term sustainable programming, how research on “what works� in youth development is being used to guide the project, and how technology is being integrated throughout the project to both recruit and retain at-risk teens. The session facilitators will discuss how partnerships, collaboration, program design, marketing, staffing, parent involvement, technology, workforce preparation, facilitation, and relationships impact recruitment, retention, sustainability and success. Participants will receive a resource packet of successful strategies, tools, and links to research for using YCA to benefit both youth and their communities.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - June Mead, JoAnne Baldini, Celeste Carmichael, Jackie Davis-Manigaulte, Vicki Giarratano, Kelly Mabee, Jamila Simon, Kay Telfer

We know that lesson planning is a fundamental practice of classroom teachers, but are there elements of the process, such as objectives and assessments, that are vital to our “non-formal� mode of teaching as well? This session will explore effective methods for planning 4-H youth development lessons and activities adapted from approaches used by formal classroom teachers. A review of the New York State Learning Standards will illustrate how both school and out-of-school experiences can strengthen youth’s common skill sets. This session will particularly support early career 4-H youth development educators, providing a context for the specific role they play in the holistic education of youth. Participants are asked to bring lesson plans, guides and other teaching materials they currently use for evaluation during the session.
Thursday 9:15 -10:45AM
Presenter - Wayne Torgersen

The 4-H Horse Program is one of Extension's largest educational outreach programs both in NYS and on a national basis. It is still a very busy, year-long educational program for youths. In the past 15 years, there was an annual average of over 8,500 youths involved in this youth development program in New York. A quick review of the overall state and national program - plus some highlights of some new program initiatives that are coming to the program.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - Jean Griffiths, Bernie Wiesen, and April Winslow

The Beginning Farmers Project has developed new tools and collaborations to assist CCE Educators in working with new or aspiring farmers. Come to this interactive session to share your experience with this audience and to learn about the new website, online course, publication, regional trainings, and other resources developed by the Leadership Team of this project.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenter - Monika Roth

The economic foundation of US communities has experienced dramatic changes over the past two decades. These changes have made it increasingly important for rural businesses to use e-commerce strategies to strengthen their economic health and stability, improve their market share and catapult the efficiency of their products and services.
In response to these changes, the National E-Commerce Extension Initiative was launched in 2003, and is addressing various factors that will dictate the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce innovations in rural areas. These factors include such topics as whether communities have the technology in place to embrace e-commerce applications, whether businesses understand how e-commerce can benefit their operations, and whether Extension educators have the resources to provide adequate educational support to small businesses.
This session is for all extension educators who want to increase their ability to deliver programming that increases the adoption of information technologies. An exciting variety of new e-commerce related Extension educational curricula will be reviewed.
Thursday 9:15 -10:45AM
Presenters - Christina Selvek, Russ Martin, Rod Howe

In our changing legal and social climate, more and more non-traditional families are willing to be open about who they are and to insist on being treated with the same respect and dignity as more conventional families. This workshop will discuss how sexual orientation and gender identity create differences in family structures, the types of issues and concerns particular to such families, and how Cooperative Extension services and programs can be inclusive of these structures and issues. Topics will include same-sex parents, children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity, parents who have come out as lgbt after beginning parenting, ways in which same-sex couples build families, and issues particular to inter-racial families. The workshop is interactive and participants are encouraged to share their concerns and questions.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenter - Gwendolyn Dean

During the plenary follow-up sessions, facilitated by Professor George Morse, the public value statements developed in the plenary session will provide the foundation for developing draft business plans for two or three narrow program areas. Business plans are based on the need for a program and the vision for the program, provide a sound basis for funding allocation decisions and staffing decisions, and provide rationale to include in funding proposals, among other opportunities. For those who have not developed public value statements or business plans before, these sessions can provide new skills. The results of these sessions will be reported in the final lunch of the CCE System Conference and will be made available to the system as part of the conference follow-up

Families and Communities Together with Schools (FACTS) is a Parental Information and Resource Center funded by the United States Department of Education. FACTS will present a workshop to increase participants’ knowledge of parental involvement in children’s education. The FACTS program of Jefferson County will describe its comprehensive programming to increase parental involvement both locally and statewide. This workshop will answer the following three questions: What is parental involvement? Why is parental involvement important? How can Cornell Cooperative Extension support parental involvement across program areas? Participants will learn what the latest research tells us about the importance of parental involvement and brainstorm ways to put that research to use in their local programming. Resources will also be shared for use in county programs.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - Carol West, Amanda Root, Kyrie Russ

This will be part 1 of a three hour workshop delivered by Binatech the consultants for Accpac. It will be address the capabilities of the accounting modules including A/P, A/R, bank services and financial reporting.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenter- Craig Haseley, Susan Martineau and Delores Gelish

Best practice techniques and useful tips for engaging adults in the learning process. Ignite your learners! Fire up your presentations! Adult learning principles, learning styles and a presentation strategy for organizing any type of presentation will be discussed. Based on a year of pilot testing in counties across the state, and input from training over 300 staff, the Navigating for success training curriculum is building staff skills and improving participant outcomes!
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenter - Joan Doyle Paddock

The Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Program Work Team invites educators and researchers involved in energy programming to participate in this working session. We will review materials in development by the PWT, including a “white paper� inventorying energy related activities underway at Cornell, Public Issues Education case studies documenting how New York municipalities are addressing energy issues, and schematics of renewable energy technologies (e.g., biodiesel, biomass, methane digestion, wind, solar) developed to identify opportunities and gaps in research and policies promoting renewable energy industries. These materials will provide background for a discussion among workshop participants contributing to a “blueprint� for CCE’s future energy programming.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - PWT Members

Guidance on complying with copyright law and fair use provisions, and application to the variety of delivery methods Extension employs.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenter - Patricia McClary

To be successful and happy at work, we need to work well with a wide range of people, including those we may not get along with. This workshop will help participants develop strategies to reduce tension and conflict with difficult people.
Thursday 9:15 -10:45AM
Presenter - Linda Starr.

Like other community-based organizations, Extension staff face ever-increasing demands to demonstrate, communicate and enhance the public value of their work. Some tools, such as outcome measurement (logic)models, are being used more systemically toward those ends. Yet certain kinds of long-term capacity- and community-building work, while central to what many understand as part of the essence of extension, remains invisible and unaccounted for. The result is a tension that is sometimes captured in the question, ""But how do we count caring?""
In this workshop, I will suggest that part of the tension arises from an often unarticulated contest between differing conceptual frameworks – a “professional public management? frame and a “personal relations? frame – for understanding community-based education and service. I will open a discussion of the differing implications of these contesting frameworks not only for how people think about their work, but for our efforts to do, evaluate, account for and improve that work. I will show how taking more seriously the marginalized ""personal relations"" framework could help the extension system more honestly embrace multiculturalism and diversity; direct our attention to important work that is often marginalized; revitalize a weakened public commitment nurturing human and community potential; better link accountability with program improvement; and help staff learn about their work in the course of engaging in learning conversations about “what matters.? Finally, I will point to some approaches to accountability, evaluation and organizational learning that can help capture and communicate this “hidden"public value and impact. In developing this workshop, I will draw upon a three-year action research case study (and a soon-to-be-published Extension discussion brief) that forms the basis for this work.
Thursday 9:15-10:45AM
Presenter - Margo Hittleman

The Parent Partner Program (TM) addresses disordered eating at multiple levels: family and friends' knowledge and coping skills, community-level peer supports and professonal development, and regional networks.
Thursday 9:15 - 10:45AM
Presenters - Nancy Potter, Chris Haltom, Susan Travis, Margaurite Uphoff, Sue Kiner