Recruiting
Youth-Adult Working Expectations
Here are a few questions to consider when preparing to recruit youth into an adult partnership:
- What is your main objective with this recruitment?
- How many people do you want to recruit?
- Between what ages?
- Where are the places where you can find the recruits you're looking for?
- Who will be the contact person of your recruiting efforts?
- Where and when is the first orientation supposed to be held?
- After you contact your recruits, what is going to be your next step?
- How long is the recruiting process supposed to take?
- How would "advertising" benefit the recruitment process? (i.e. church bulletins, housing newsletters, posters, etc.)
- How are we going to do our advertising?
- What kind of criteria could be used for recruiting?
School Recruiting Checkpoints
- School Newspaper Editor(s)
- School TV crew
- Student members of local School Board and State Board of Education
- Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee
- Student members of the Local Site-based Improvement Team
- Student Council President and Class Officers
- Student Rep on PTSA
- Extracurricular Clubs (Young Democrats, Ecology Club, SADD, Key Club, etc.)
- Community Service-Learning Coordinator
- Peer counselors and Conflict Resolution Mediators
- Health/Family Life Teachers
- School Debate Team and Model U.N.
- Journalism, Communications, Media Literacy Teachers
- Environmental Science and Biology Teachers
- Career Center Counselor and/or Guidance Counselors
- Girls Athletic Teams
- Boys Athletic Teams
Community Recruiting Checkpoints
- Alternative schools (Charter)
- Candidates for student governments
- Churches
- Teen centers
- Home schoolers
- Juvenile courts
- County 4-H extension agents
- YMCAs and YWCAs
- Sports clubs
- Shopping malls
- United Ways and volunteer centers
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters
- Boys and Girls Scouts
- Back to 4-H Youth-Adult Partnership
