Cooperative Extension Section Leadership Honored

At the close of the Cooperative Extension Section Annual Business meeting last week in Nashville, Ed Jones, 2019 ECOP Chair, presented tokens of appreciation. Earlier earlier this year 2 others were recognized for their national service.

ECOP Service Award to Bill Hare, University of District of Columbia,
2016-2019

ECOP Service Award to Tom Dobbins, Clemson University,
2016-2019

ECOP Service Award to Chuck Hibberd, University of Nebraska,
2010-2019

Also, acknowledged for their excellent contributions to the Goals of the Section:

• Michelle Rodgers, University of Delaware, Project Director of Well Connected Communities for the Extension Health Initiative
• Mark Skidmore, Director, North Central Region Center for Rural Development, for leadership of the Extension Opioid Crisis Response Workgroup
• Caroline Crocoll, for her representation on the ECOP 4-H Leadership Committee, 2018-2019

Before the Business Meeting adjourned, Ed passed the gavel to Mark Latimore, Jr., Fort Valley State University (GA). In his first action, Mark presented Ed with an engraved plaque to commemorate his term as Chair. The 2020 ECOP Meeting Calendar, Section Budget, and List(s) may be found at www.extension.org/ecop. The next Annual Section Business/NEDA Meeting is schedule for September 22-25, 2020. The city/location will be announced very soon!


Next Generation Extension Learning for Leaders Series Continues on Friday, November 1, 2019 - Members of the Cooperative Extension Section are invited to meet online on a regular basis to discover emerging program, partnership, and resource opportunities, and to enhance the strengthen the national network. The more members to participate, ask questions and share, the more value is added to the System to benefit national, state and regional impact. Mark Latimore, Jr., Fort Valley State University, announces the schedule a series of 6 sessions during his term as the 2020 ECOP Chair as follows - please mark your calendars. Topics are announced closer to the actual dates. All 1-hour sessions occur on First Fridays, 3-4:00 p.m. ET and are archived for reference (Search this blog for topics).
  -- 11/1/2019
  -- 1/3/2020
  -- 3/6/2020
  -- 5/1/2020
  -- 6/5/2020
  -- 9/4/2020


4-H National Mentoring Program Funding Announced - The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has awarded National 4-H Council $4.85 million for the 10th year of the 4-H National Mentoring Program (NMP10), which comes as a direct result of Cooperative Extension’s success in providing youth mentoring services through local 4-H programs. The NMP10 grant is open to all 50 states. A portion of the funding ($1.25M) is a new grant, effective March 1, 2020, to support the 4-H Health Rocks!® Mentoring Program in 13 states (focused on reaching youth impacted by opioids in the Appalachian region). An Advanced Request for Applications (RFP) has already been released through Council’s Web Grants online portal and are due on October 18th. For more information, please contact Theresa Melton, National 4-H Council, TMelton@fourhcouncil.edu.


Save the Date! Legislative Education 101 for SNAP-Ed Leaders Webcast - The SNAP-Ed Program Development Team will be delivering this webcast on October 16, 2019 at 1:30 Eastern Time. Attendees will learn why educating legislators and other decision-makers is valuable within SNAP-Ed as well as key steps to begin this work. This webcast will be at a beginner’s level; designed for those who are new to legislative education and/or new to SNAP-Ed. The webcast will be recorded and posted for registrants after the event. Registration: https://illinoisaces.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d0TGj8eaQW7fWtL. Please contact Christine Hradek hradek@iastate.edu with any questions.