Professional Experience:

• Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Agricultural and Extension Education, Penn State University
• Manager, Extension Staff Development, Penn State Cooperative Extension
• Extension Educator, Youth Program Coordinator, Penn State Cooperative Extension
• Extension Educator, Family Living, Bucks County

Education:

• PhD., Agricultural Education, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997
• M.S., Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1987
• B.S., Home Economics Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1980

Research Interests:

• Positive Youth Development
• Nonformal Curriculum Development
• Life Skills Evaluation
• Experiential Learning
• Curriculum Marketing and Delivery Strategies

Courses Taught:

• AEE 590, Colloquium, Extension Programming
• AEE 590, Colloquium, Creative Connections: Strategies for Participant-Centered Instruction
• YFE 840: Applied Youth Development (online course)

Office:

104 Ferguson Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-863-7851
Fax: 814-863-4753
E-mail: cmincemoyer@psu.edu

Responsibilities:

• Extension Specialist, 4-H/Youth Curriculum Development
• State Coordinator, Pennsylvania 4-H Afterschool
• National Curriculum Jury Chair, 4-HCCS
• Extension Liason, PROSPER Prevention Project

Extension Programs/Publications:

• 4-H Youth Development Curricula
• 4-H Health Lifestyles
• 4-H Communications and Expressive Arts
• Life Skills Evaluation
• Say Y.E.S to Youth Engagement Strategies
• On-line Curriculum
  • Babysitting Beginnings
  • Cloverbuds Curriculum
  • Proverbs to Create Understanding Among Generations and Cultures
• Shooting Sports
• Financial Champions
• Teambuilding Facilitation Manual
• 4-H Afterschool
• 4-H Curriculum and PA Academic Standards

Selected Publications:

• Mincemoyer, C., Perkins, D., Mei-Mei Ang, P., Greenberg, M., Spoth, R., Redmond, C. and Feinberg, M. Improving the Reputation of Cooperative Extension as a Source of Prevention Education for Youth and Families: The Effects of the PROSPER Model. (15 pp.) Journal of Extension, 46 (1).
• Perkins, D., Mincemoyer, C. and Lilehoj, D. (2006). Extension Educators’ Perceptions of Community Readiness, Knowledge of Prevention Science and Experience with Collaboration. (7 pp.) The Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 98 (4).
• Scheve, J., Perkins, D. and Mincemoyer, C. (2006). Collaborative teams: Sustaining youth engagement. (24 pp.) The Journal of Community Practice 14 (2).
• Scheve, J., Perkins, D. and Mincemoyer, C. (2006). Fostering Youth Engagement on Community Teams. Journal of Youth Development~ Bridging Research and Practice, 1 (1)
• Mincemoyer, C. and Perkins, D. (2005). Measuring the impact of youth development programs: A national on-line youth life skills evaluation system. (11 pp.) The Forum for Family and Consumer Issues, 10 (2)
• St. Pierre, T., Osgood, W., Mincemoyer, C., Kaltrieder, L. and Kauh, T. (2005). Results of an independent evaluation of Project ALERT delivered in schools by Cooperative Extension. Journal of Prevention Science, 1 (pp. 1-13).
• Mincemoyer, C., Perkins, D. and Lilehoj, C. (2004). Perceptions of the Cooperative Extension system: A community resource for youth and family programs. Journal of Extension, 42 (5).
• Mincemoyer, C. and Furry, M. (2003). Financial champions: Guiding youth's financial future. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 95 (3) (pp. 27-31).
• Mincemoyer, C. and Perkins, D. (2003). Assessing youth decision-making skills and influences on decisions, Forum for Family and Consumer Issues, 8 (1). Available on the Web at http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pub/8(1)mincemoyer.html
• Mincemoyer, C. (2003). 4-H Volunteers and the Internet: A partnership for the future. Journal of Volunteer Administration, 21 (1) (pp. 31-36).
• Mincemoyer, C. (2002). 4-H school enrichment: A school and community partnership. School Community Journal, 12 (1) (pp. 107-116).
• Mincemoyer, C. and Perkins, D. (2001). Boosting post in-service learning. Journal of Extension, 39 (6). Available on the Web at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2001december/tt3.html
• Mincemoyer, C. and Corbin, M. (2001). Computer-mediated needs assessment to identify 4-H youth curriculum needs. Journal of Extension, 39 (5). Available on the Web at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2001october/rb7.html
• Mincemoyer, C. and Perkins, D. (2001). Building your youth development toolkit: A community youth development orientation for Pennsylvania 4-H/Youth programs. Journal of Extension, 39 (4).