Southern Clark County Programs
Exploring Your True Colors: Building an Effective Team & Team Development Course
Team Development Course
Leaders today are challenged to develop within their organizations the kind of teamwork that fosters innovative problem solving and enhances productivity. The team course is a sequence of increasingly complex and challenging activities designed to increase individual and group knowledge while having fun! By exposing issues such as control, communication, conflict, authority and individual listening skills in a non-judgmental way, the Team Course allows team members and leaders to identify the barriers that inhibit performance and to explore solutions that enhance productivity in all aspects of their lives.
Exploring Your True Colors: Building and Effective Team
Imagine having the ability to clearly communicate your thoughts and ideas to clients, friends and family. Picture yourself having a unique level of insight into the things that motivate you and others. Envision achieving all the things you want from life, both personally and professionally. Through Exploring Your True Colors, you’ll gain a completely new perspective on yourself and the things that are most important to you. As you learn more about the Colors, you’ll instinctively recognize characteristics of people you know and their Color. This knowledge gives you valuable insight into what is most important to them, why they may react to situations differently than others, how you can best communicate with them and much more. The Colors program encourages teamwork and enhances customer service and overall workplace productivity.
Impact
Over 3,000 adults and 2600 youth have participated in the True Colors program. Youth and adults indicated that participating in the program improved their ability to work well with others. When asked to reflect on their work experiences before and after entering the program, youth and adults indicated that they were better able to understand their preferred style of working color and how to work more effectively with individuals with other color “styles.” In addition, youth and adults indicated that their awareness of the way they deal with those who are different from them improved after participating in the program, and that they were now aware of more methods to improve the way they deal with people who are different from them. Finally, after participating in the program youth and adults indicated that their awareness of their ability to contribute to the overall team improved.
Contacts: Eric Killian, Children, Youth, Families Specialist, 702-222-3130
Willie Daugherty, 702-257-5596
| Programs | Program Information |
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4-H Youth Development 4-H is a community of young people across America learning leadership, citizenship and life skills. | |
All 4 Kids University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s All 4 Kids: Healthy, Happy, Active, Fit program is an interdisciplinary approach to addressing child obesity. Developed by Cooperative Extension faculty from maternal/child nutrition, exercise physiology and child development, the All 4 Kids program helps children meet the Nevada Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) Standards while encouraging preschool children and families to practice healthy eating habits and be active every day. | |
Career Edge: Teens Taking Charge of Their Future! A Workforce Readiness Program The Career Edge: Teens Taking Charge of Their Future! A workforce readiness program for high school students focused on skill development for workplace and job success. Career Edge helps high school students prepare to get their first "paying" job while working toward their dream job or career. Career Edge provides information and training on interview skills, résumé development, filling out applications, finding job leads and selecting appropriate clothing for the workplace. In addition, many "soft skills" needed in the workplace such as decision-making, teamwork, problem-solving and leadership are integrated throughout the program. | |
Desert Green, Commercial Water Conservation Training Desert Green is in its eleventh year and is designed to educate commercial clientele in the Green Industry as well as others who have an interest in water conservation issues. A committee representing the industry implements the training. Desert Green is chaired by one industry representative and one UNCE representative. The program is presented once a year, with 36 classes taught in a two-day period. A committee of industry representative reviews evaluations from the previous year to decide future educational direction and topics. During the evaluation process, the program is reviewed, modified and revised according to the needs of the clientele. As part of the marketing of this program, two articles citing the importance of Desert Green appear in regional trade publications. | |
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) The mission of Nevada’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is to assist families with limited financial resources. Through educational support and experiential learning, the families acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes and changed behavior to improve their nutritional and health status in order to prevent chronic disease and enhance family well-being. Practical application allows learners to see the relevance of information to their daily lives. | |
Exploring Your True Colors: Building an Effective Team & Team Development Course Team Development Course | |
Family Storyteller Literacy Program National award-winning Family Storyteller is a literacy program aimed at encouraging and training parents to play a vital role in the literacy development of their children. Developed by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE), KNPB-TV, the Washoe County libraries and Washoe County School District, the statewide program creates an opportunity for parents and young children to interact around literacy and language activities. Family Storyteller is designed especially for families that may have limited language skills and few children’s books at home. | |
Food for Thoughts, School Garden University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Food for Thoughts Program offers children an alternative site for learning, promotes awareness of the desert environment, demonstrates the geographic sources of their food, and encourages healthy eating and activities. | |
Fun To Play University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Fun To Play program targets families where, due to the young age, inexperience or limited resources of the parents, young children are placed at-risk for developmental delays and later school difficulties. Fun To Play is a series of weekly infant/child sessions aimed at improving the parenting skills of young parents by increasing the amount of learning activities and interaction they provide their children. | |
Healing gardens in Las Vegas University of Nevada Cooperative Extension healing gardens essentially become outdoor sanctuaries for people who are hospitalized as well as their families and the staff that works with them. | |
Healthy Eating Active Living: Mapping Attributes using Participatory Photographic Surveys (HEAL MAPPS) Healthy Eating Active Living: Mapping Attributes using Participatory Photographic Surveys (HEAL MAPPS) is a compilation of evidence-based engagement and assessment tools that is used to audit and map community environmental features that support and/or hinder healthful eating and physical activity among community members. The MAPPS method integrates photography, participatory community mapping using global positioning system (GPS) technology, and residents’ voiced perceptions of their community. HEAL MAPPS engages people in community-based participatory research to document attributes of the rural community environment that are perceived by residents as obesity preventing or promoting and assess the local resources and readiness to implement community-level obesity prevention strategies to prevent unhealthy weight gain/overweight and obesity among children and their families. | |
Healthy Eating on a Budget The Healthy Eating on a Budget program has been integrated into the TANF Work Readiness workshop as a SNAP-Ed program. The purpose of the 8-lesson series is to provide SNAP recipients with education on healthy nutrition and physical activity practices, food resource management, food safety and food security. | |
Healthy Steps to Freedom Alcohol and drug addiction are serious, chronic and relapsing health problems for both women and men of all ages and backgrounds. Leading to physical and mental health problems, substance abuse often precipitates violence, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, motor vehicle crashes, homelessness, rising health care costs and obesity. | |
Little Books and Little Cooks University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s Little Books & Little Cooks program is a national ward winning program (from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences) to address parenting and nutrition information. The program teaches both parents and their young children (ages 3-5) important milestones of early learning and literacy, school readiness and good nutrition through a seven-week program. Topics for seven weeks include: proper hand washing procedure, food safety and kitchen safety rules, USDA MyPlate (five food groups), benefits of cooking with children, multicultural foods, parents’ feeding style and hunger and fullness cues, picky eating behaviors, and importance of eating fruits and vegetables. Reading children’s books about nutrition and healthy eating as well as cooking and eating together allow both children and parents to learn about healthy eating and nutrition and gain positive parent-child interaction skills. This program offers children a way to learn important pre-kindergarten skills, including math, science, physical development, health and nutrition, literacy development, social development and creative arts, as well as to try new, nutritious foods. | |
Living With Fire Living with Fire is a comprehensive, multi-agency program aimed at teaching homeowners how to live more safely in high wildfire-hazard environments. The program, encompassing research and education, was developed in 1997 as a result of a collaboration between University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE), Nevada’s Agricultural Experiment Station and the Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators, a group of 12 Nevada and California firefighting agencies. | |
Master Gardeners in Nevada Master Gardeners provide free, research-based horticulture information to Nevadans. They are volunteers who learn advanced plant science skills from at least 50 hours of classroom instruction by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) professionals. After training, Master Gardeners volunteer a minimum of at least 50 hours a year to pass along their newly acquired knowledge through the media, talks and workshops. They answer phone calls, send out informational materials and develop community gardens. | |
Nevada Naturalist University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) in collaboration with partnering agencies including Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, Nevada Department of Wildlife, Springs Preserve, Wetlands Park, Nevada State Museum, and others, has developed a comprehensive environmental education curricula targeting adult learners interested in environmental issues affecting southern Nevada. | |
Pick a better snack™ (formerly Chefs for Kids) This evidence-based campaign focuses on building fruit and vegetable consumption in children through healthy snacking. Pick a better snack™ is a monthly, in-school nutrition education program for primary grade children in at-risk elementary schools in Clark and Washoe counties in Nevada. In addition to direct instruction, staff works with school wellness coordinators to build meaningful and sustainable programming to create a well environment in every school. |
Statewide Programs *Statewide programs may not be available in all counties
| Programs | Program Information |
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| Cattlemen’s Update | |
| Food Safety Project | |
| Grow Your Own, Nevada | |
| Herds and Harvest | |
| Invasive Species (Weeds) | |
| Nevada Radon Education Program | |
| Nevada State GEAR UP | |
| Nevada Youth Range Camp | |
| People of the Land | |
| Pesticide Safety Education Program | |
| Riparian and Watershed Assessment and Management | |
| Risk Management | |
| Stronger Economies Together | |
| Weed Prevention and Management |
