On RFD-TV: Jordan Rasmussen

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Rural Communities need rural community leaders to grow and thrive, but these leaders also need to be nurtured as they step into these informal and formal leadership capacities. Jordan Rasmussen is an Extension Educator with Nebraska Extension’s Rural Prosperity Nebraska team. She assists with the coordination of the team’s community leadership development efforts and describes the program live on RFD-TV, April 5, 2022.

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[00:00:00.000]Rural communities need leaders to grow and thrive.
[00:00:03.630]That's why the Rural Prosperity Nebraska program
[00:00:06.420]offers a framework for leadership development that
[00:00:08.640]matches the needs and goals of these hometowns.
[00:00:11.940]Nebraska Extension Educator Jordan Rasmussen joins
[00:00:14.700]us now for an update on the program.
[00:00:17.130]And Jordan, thanks for your time here this
[00:00:18.930]morning.
[00:00:19.230]So how does University Extension help these
[00:00:21.870]communities build the leadership capacity?
[00:00:25.980]Yes, so we've work right alongside those
[00:00:27.900]communities to help build up a program and design
[00:00:30.450]a program that looks that meets their goals and
[00:00:32.910]needs.
[00:00:33.570]We make sure we do this by doing this as a
[00:00:36.060]partnership.
[00:00:36.690]That's really important for community leadership
[00:00:38.700]development.
[00:00:39.210]Because we need those partnerships on the ground
[00:00:42.060]and also that collaboration to make those pieces
[00:00:45.180]happen.
[00:00:46.170]Once we we've had that initial conversation with a
[00:00:48.570]community about what they're looking for what
[00:00:50.280]their goals and needs are, we help them design a
[00:00:52.980]program that fits into their schedules.
[00:00:54.900]Some communities look to offer a program on a
[00:00:57.330]monthly basis year round.
[00:00:59.160]Others already have existing leadership programs
[00:01:02.010]in which they integrate some of our opportunities
[00:01:05.220]into or there's other initiatives within the
[00:01:07.320]community where community leadership development
[00:01:09.390]can be integrated.
[00:01:10.560]So those are some of the ways that we bring help
[00:01:13.680]build that capacity in those rural communities.
[00:01:16.350]As we're working with these communities too, we're
[00:01:18.420]also encouraging them to think about how they're
[00:01:21.570]incorporating youth into these programs and
[00:01:23.550]opportunities.
[00:01:25.050]Whether that be a high school student or a college
[00:01:27.360]student, helping build those those younger leaders
[00:01:30.780]right alongside those adult leaders, and helping
[00:01:33.240]keep that generational leadership transition
[00:01:36.690]going.
[00:01:37.410]How have you seen these programs make a difference
[00:01:39.900]in rural Nebraska?
[00:01:42.360]Yes, so we, like I said, these programs are
[00:01:45.990]individual and different in each community that we
[00:01:48.270]work in.
[00:01:49.170]So some communities are looking for opportunities
[00:01:51.690]where the program participants are designing a
[00:01:55.650]program, and they're designing a program or a
[00:01:59.310]project opportunity.
[00:02:00.420]And so they take it from idea and concept all the
[00:02:03.390]way through implementation.
[00:02:05.340]Some communities have then delivered a project
[00:02:08.591]like a recruitment video for the community or a
[00:02:11.912]project Park update, just an array of opportunities.
[00:02:15.510]Other communities are looking for more direct ways
[00:02:18.311]in which to connect community leaders, those that
[00:02:21.057]are aspiring to be community leaders and those
[00:02:23.638]that are currently in roles and opportunities.
[00:02:26.220]And they provide networking opportunities to those
[00:02:29.717]to those aspiring leaders.
[00:02:31.500]But ultimately, when we see these community
[00:02:33.980]leaders that their best is when they take those
[00:02:36.685]skills that they've learned in some of the course
[00:02:39.504]developed courses that we've offered, and how they
[00:02:42.378]flex those skills and they're putting them to work
[00:02:45.253]on their church council or on the extension board
[00:02:48.071]or other nonprofits in town.
[00:02:49.650]Or even at work or if they decide to run for an
[00:02:53.237]office such as School Board, or County, Seat,
[00:02:56.675]things of that nature.
[00:02:58.860]Well, again, Jordan Rasmussen, an extension
[00:03:00.991]educator with the Rural Prosperity Nebraska program.
[00:03:03.510]Thank you very much for your insight this morning,
[00:03:05.541]Jordan.
[00:03:05.820]She's joining us from Lincoln.
[00:03:07.080]Of course, you can go online for a little more information.

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