4-H Youth Development offers youth hands-on educational experiences that foster real-world skills, curiosity, and leadership. Guided by our core values of Head, Heart, Hands, and Health, 4-H focuses on STEM, agriculture, healthy living, and civic engagement, providing a safe, fun environment for youth to explore their interests and find their spark.

My name is Charmae Kendall. I love kids and critters and Duplin County hired me to do agriculture education with our 4-H’ers and in the schools. Our 4-H logo is “Learn by Doing” and if you do programs with me, we will not sit still long! Get ready to use your head, heart, hands, and to be healthy (notice the 4 H’s) while we learn life skills. Depending on the time of year, some of my programs include:

• Raise birds from chicks and learn showmanship for the Coastal Plains Chicken Show
• Duplin County Lamb and Pig Projects that are housed at our county livestock facilities
• Raise an animal from home and I can help you get your project ready for a local show
• Learn about livestock and how to evaluate them with our Judging and Skillathon teams
• Teach kindergarten classes what farmers are growing for us during the current season
• Teach embryology for 2nd grade classes
• Host the Duplin County Livestock Show, typically in September

Feel free to contact me at charmae_kendall@ncsu.edu or 910-296-2143 with any questions you have!

I am the 4-H Prevention Coordinator at Duplin County. My position is funded by SAMHSA's Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant (SUPTRS BG) and the Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnership for Success (SPF-PFS) grant through NCDHHS and Trillium Health Resources. In this position there are three areas of focus:

• Youth Prevention Education
• Community-based Processes
• Environmental Strategies

I have been trained to provide evidence-based curriculum around substance use prevention to youth age 5-17. I have provided this education at various schools within the Duplin County School system as well as the community setting. I am trained to provide:

• Project ALERT
• All Stars
• Storytelling for Empowerment
• Unique You
• Lifeskills
• Too Good for Drugs

This focus allows me to build partnerships throughout the county by serving on various coalitions/collaboratives and leads to opportunities to disseminate information through speaking engagements, and the distribution of rack cards, coloring books, pencils, etc. with substance use prevention messaging. Coalitions/Collaboratives served:

• Duplin County Substance Use Coalition
• Duplin Agencies with Support of Youth (DAISY)
• Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC)
• Child Fatality Prevention Team/Multidisciplinary (CFPT/MDT)
• Duplin Coalition for Health
• Duplin/Sampson Collaborative

This strategy allows me to use communication campaigns to educate the community to create positive environmental change within the county through policy change. I participate in the distribution of signage, information and various tools to help decrease underage drinking, prescription medication overdose and misuse and the selling of tobacco products to underage individuals, all while providing tools for mental wellness. The communication compaigns provided to this county are:

• Lock Your Meds
• Talk It Up. Lock It Up
• NC988
• Synar (merchant education)

Feel free to contact me at jasmine.williams@duplinnc.gov or 910-296-2143 with any questions you have!