4-H Healthy Living Summit delegates: Michael Newton, Jr. (Burlington Co.), Victoria Matt (Cape May Co.), Amanda Erbe (Ocean Co.) and McKayla Tyrrell (Monmouth Co.). Photo: Kenny Faillace.
Four 4-H members represented New Jersey at the National Youth Summit on Healthy Living held Feb. 12-15 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The purpose of the summit was to provide high school youth with an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills to address issues like nutrition education, physical fitness, wellness and emotional wellbeing. Delegates discussed how they would share what they learned at the Healthy Living Youth Summit and created action plans to implement in their home communities.
New Jersey delegates attending the summit included Michael Newton, Jr. (Burlington County), Victoria Matt (Cape May County), Amanda Erbe (Ocean County) and McKayla Tyrrell (Monmouth County). The delegation was chaperoned by Kenny Faillace, Passaic County 4-H community assistant and Kalin Axelsson, a 4-H volunteer from Cape May County.
The 4-H Youth Development Program is part of Rutgers Cooperative extension, a unit of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. 4-H educational programs are offered to all youth, grades K-13 (one year out of high school), on an age-appropriate basis, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, marital status, domestic partnership status, military service, veteran status and any other category protected by law.
For more information, visit the New Jersey 4-H Program website.
