Program Teams

1. List of Extension Program Teams, Task Forces, and Committees - Word Document
2. Team Membership List - Word Document
3. Building Program Teams - Word Document
4. Extension Team FAQs (New questions welcome; this is an expanding list) - Word Document
5. Competitive Funds for Team Activity: Request for Proposals - Word Document
6. Team Assignment Documents (Program Goals and Objectives) all are Word Doucments unless otherwise indicated
• 4-H Camping - Publisher
  • Outcomes -- Team Accomplishment Report
  • Safety Research -- Team Accomplishment Report
  • Staff Training -- Team Accomplishment Report
• 4-H Clubs and Special Interest (formerly Curriculum) -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Adult Leadership Development
  • 4-H Leaders
  • Adult Volunteer Management
  • Community Leadership Development -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Agricultural Production and Marketing
• Aquaculture -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Beef Quality Assurance -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Forestry -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Horticulture
• Livestock Marketing
• Small Ruminants
• Community Development
  • Business Retention and Expansion
  • Community Development Institute (CDI)
  • Downtown Revitalization -- Team Accomplisment Report
  • First Impressions
  • Government, Planning, and Public Policy -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Culture, Tourism, Experiential Education
  • Culture and Arts
  • Experiential Learning
  • Fairs and Festivals at WVU Jackson's Mill
  • Historic Area at WVU Jackson's Mill
  • History Hits the Road
  • Local Fairs and Festivals
  • Tourism
• Environmental Stewardship
  • Integrated Pest Management
  • Mid-Atlantic Information Network for Pesticides
  • Nutrient Management -- Team Accomplishment Report
    • Watershed and Water Quality -- Team Accomplishment Report
  • Pesticide Safety Education
    • Pesticide Video -- Team Accomplishment Report
  • Plant Diagnostics
• Farm Management
  • Farm Management/Risk Management
  • Grassland Management
  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Value-Added Marketing
• Fire Service
• Global Education
  • CHISPA -- Team Accomplishment Report
  • Hispanic Student in the Classroom -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Leadership Development
  • Community Leadership Development -- Team Accomplishment Report
• Literacy
  • Energy Express
  • Family Storyteller
  • Reading Partners
• Nutrition and Health
  • A New You: Health for Every Body
  • Active for Life
  • Animals and Handwashing
  • Bridging the Gap with Education: Diabetes Symposium
  • Dining with Diabetes
  • Family Nutrition Program
  • Food Safety
  • Germ City: Clean Hands Healthy People
• Reaching the Underserved
  • Career Preparation
  • Earned Income Tax Credit
  • Poverty Education
  • Program Access
  • VISTA Volunteers
• Strengthening Families
  • Childcare Education
  • Family Finance
  • Family Times Newsletter
  • Healthy Families Healthy Children
  • Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP)
  • Senior Moments
• Workforce Development
  • Safety and Health
7. Thumbnail Descriptions of Each Program - Excel Spreadsheet
8. Defining Our Work, Faculty Assignment Documents - PowerPoint Presentation
9. FAD Template - Word Document

As Extension strives to maximize its potential, a model of teams has developed to provide on-going guidance and support. Planning work was facilitated by the program leadership team.

It's understood that Extension can't provide a great deal of day-to-day program supervision. It's also understood that it is difficult for individual program assistants, agents, and specialists to develop and deliver major programs on their own. Ultimately, Extension believes a team-driven program development structure serves the organization and our clientele better than previous models because it more fully and collaboratively harnesses the creative talents of our program staff.

17 Extension program teams represent current major program areas for Extension. Work with the five Extension program units, team program staff assigned to the team membership list. Minor changes are anticipated to the published list.

An extensive FAQ document describes the nature and functioning of program teams, but core principles include:

1. Teams are responsible for the development, leadership, coordination, and continuous improvement of major statewide programs.
2. Teams must work collaboratively across program units.
3. Teams will have discretionary budgets from central administration and assistance from support units.
4. Teams will ideally be co-led by a specialist and an agent.
5. While each team is accountable for its effectiveness to a program director and the Associate Director of Programs, faculty and staff are not supervised through their program teams, but through the five Extension program units. Teams are an important mechanism for encouraging faculty and staff collaboration.
6. Teams will hold members accountable.
7. All program staff will participate in and contribute to at least one program team, task force, or standing committee.
8. Teams will develop (refine) individual faculty goals that will be built into Faculty Assignment Documents (FADs).
9. Co-leaders of teams will be invited to an initial training in high-performance teams, to be conducted by Arlen Leholm and Ray Vlasin.

If you have questions about our team structure or your role in teams, please call or e-mail your program director or the Associate Director for Programs, Paul Becker. Thanks to the following for their creative work in planning Extension's team effort:

Steve Bonanno
Pat Gruber
Debbie McDonald
Terry Patterson
Jennifer Williams

Paul Becker

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Last modified: January 4, 2008
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