Nebraska 4-H Youth Development Program Priority

Health & Wellness

Youth Cooking

Nebraska 4-H educates youth about making healthy and safe decisions in their daily lives. Through health and wellness programs, youth gain knowledge and develop skills for making health and safe decisions in their daily lives, gain an understanding of what positive relationships look like, practice healthy and safe decision making, exhibit increase resiliency, develop positive relationships with adults and peers, and maintain a healthy and safe lifestyle leading to decreased health related problems and medical costs.

Through these programs, youth practice critical life skills, including:

  • Resiliency
  • Personal Safety
  • Decision Making
  • Healthy Lifestyle Choices
  • Self-Responsibility
  • Stress Management