{"id":614,"date":"2011-11-16T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/?page_id=614"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T13:14:17","slug":"volunteers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/program-volunteer-resources\/volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Development Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #3698d4\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-872\" src=\"http:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/12\/tanglewoodgardenshed.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers building a shed at the UMaine 4-H Camp &amp; learning Center at Tanglewood\" width=\"252\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/12\/tanglewoodgardenshed.jpg 252w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/12\/tanglewoodgardenshed-105x78.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,252px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Staff Toolkit (Policies, Forms, and More)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/program-volunteer-resources\/volunteers\/policy-manual\/\">Policy Manual for UMaine Extension Staff Who Work With Volunteers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2020\/03\/Risk-Management-checklist-2020-Revised.docx\">Risk Management Checklist for Program, Activity or Event Planning (Word)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Food Safety Fact Sheet: Bulletin #4214, General Food Safety Tips for Preparing Food:<br \/>\n(\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/extensionpubs.umext.maine.edu\/ePOS?form=item.html&amp;item=4214&amp;store=413#\">order printed copies<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/publications\/4214e\/\">download it for free<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer Standards of Behavior Form: (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/02\/Standards-of-Behavior-2019.docx\" rel=\"\">Word<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2019\/02\/Standards-of-Behavior-2019.pdf\" rel=\"\">PDF<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/12\/Volunteer-and-Insurance-Brochure-opt.pdf\">Volunteers and Insurance brochure (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Additional Resources by Topic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/program-volunteer-resources\/volunteers\/episodic-volunteers\/\"><strong>Episodic Volunteers<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2011\/11\/volunteer-planning-committees-handbook.doc\">Volunteer Planning Committees: How to recruit, organize and establish for success (Word)<\/a><\/strong>. A self-instruction guide<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volunteer Research Knowledge and Competency Taxonomy Lesson Plans:<\/strong> The VRKC Taxonomy is based on the identified skills and competencies that volunteers will need in order to effectively deliver 4-H Youth Development programs and activities in the next decade. This series of lesson plans were originally designed for training 4-H volunteers, but some of them may work well with other program area volunteers. <a href=\"https:\/\/4-h.org\/professionals\/professional-development\/volunteer-development\/#!vrkc-model-lesson-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Access the complete set of lesson plans<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Volunteerism for the Next Generation Fact Sheet Series<\/strong> is adapted from the TAXI curriculum that was produced by National 4-H Council in the mid-&#8217;90s. TAXI was one of the primary volunteerism resources identified by internal and external experts when the National 4-H Learning Priority Team on Volunteerism began their work in 2007. The National 4-H Learning Priority Team on Volunteerism received permission from National 4-H Council to retrieve specific sections from TAXI and create new Volunteerism for the Next Generation (VNG) Fact Sheets. <a href=\"https:\/\/4-h.org\/professionals\/professional-development\/volunteer-development\/#!fact-sheet-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Access the fact sheets<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Toolkit (Policies, Forms, and More) Policy Manual for UMaine Extension Staff Who Work With Volunteers Risk Management Checklist for Program, Activity or Event Planning (Word) Food Safety Fact Sheet: Bulletin #4214, General Food Safety Tips for Preparing Food: (\u00a0order printed copies | download it for free ) Volunteer Standards of Behavior Form: (\u00a0Word | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-614","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Amanda Miles","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/author\/amiles\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12189,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/614\/revisions\/12189"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}