Manola C Erby

Biography

Biography: Areas of Specialization/ Research Youth Development/ At-Risk Children, Youth and Families PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Present, Program Leader, 4-H Youth Development 1993-Present, Youth Specialist 1990-1992, Family Life and Child Development Specialist 1984-1987, Home Economics Extension Agent Awards/ Grants The Kenneth Cook Outstanding Service Award, Mississippi State University Extension Service, 2012 W.C. Boykin Award, Alcorn State University Extension Program, 2012 The Extension Administrator’s Award, Alcorn State University Extension Program 2010 SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Strategies to Recruit Minority Volunteers for 4-H, eConference on Volunteers, 2014. Mississippi 4-H Healthy Living Eat 4-Health Program, 4-H Biennial Conference, Charleston, SC , 2014 Teenage Pregnancy in the Bible Belt, CYFER Net Webinar, 2012. Miss/Lou “Camp SWAGG” National 4-H Leadership Conference, New Orleans, LA, 2012 2012 Can We (Wii) Get Physical, Southern Region Volunteer Leaders’ Conference, Little Rock, AK, 2012 Program Development “ASUEP Program For Change Model” AEA System-Wide Extension Conference, Memphis, TN, 2012 “Just Wait”, Abstinence Teen Summit, Jackson, MS, 2009 Interact Bridge for Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Sexuality (BAPPS) Children Youth and Family at Risk Conference (CYFAR) Baltimore, MD, 2009 Building Youth/Adult Partnerships, National 4-H Conference ,2009.

Research Interest

Youth Development/ At-Risk Children, Youth and Families