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“Enhancing Community Resources: Teens and Computer Connectivity” YAR project is designed to promote community-based partnerships using local teens and computers as resources for community development. 

Through this project, the Extension 4-H program assists local community partner organizations to enhance and make use of the “assets” of teens, and to use the potential of the world wide web to strengthen their community development efforts within their neighborhoods. Teens are involved in leadership development sessions, service learning projects related to issues which they identify in partnership with local adult youth developers and educators, and in career development and computer skills enhancement activities.

 Community-based sites are located at Hough, (Fatima & Lexington-Bell Centers, East High School), Cudell (Cudell Improvement), and Glenville/Fairfax (Glenville Recreation Center) neighborhoods of Cleveland and Lakewood (West Shore Academy).

Program Outcomes:

• Fifty-three teens engaged in 222 hours of service learning activities at local schools, City Mission and conduct presentations to the Cleveland City Council.
  
  
• Fifty-three youth received training in use of computer technology in career related activities, and 98 youth received additional computer generated information on career goals and academic skills.
  
  
• The project took leadership in installation of a computer teaching lab at County Extension Office and began forming collaboration with teen newsletter and web site development activities at several 4-H P.R.Y.M.E. project sites. Several teens served as Ohio delegation to a 4-H national computer technology conference in July.

Future Direction:

• Work with original satellite locations to expand use of computer labs by teens for academic skill building, web site development, and service learning activities.
  
  
• Continue development of youth leadership and service learning activities at East High and FDR Middle School.
  
  
  
• Strengthen collaboration with 4-H P.R.Y.M.E. sites to promote use of computers for communication skills development and career planning.
  
  
• Continue to work with partner sites to assist youth in using computers for career planning activities.

For more information contact: Gregory Siek, Extension Agent, Cuyahoga County, 216-397-6021

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Last Updated: February 2002