After doing a little research and putting together some more thoughts, I have decided to go another route in the two grants I will be attempting to get funded this semester. Originally I was pretty vague in some of the things I am hoping to do. If anyone wants, they can read my previous blog and learn a little about some of the things I originally planned to do. However, as I mentioned earlylier, I have strayed from that some. The two things I would like to focus on now will be youth farm safety and youth horse safety. At some point I would also like to tackle the topic of all the unwanted unwanted and wild horses. But that will be at a later time haha. I also mentioned in my bio that I work for the Unversity of Arkansas Division of Agriculture as the Extension Horse Specialist. So, I feel these two things are extremely important and certainly worth developing.
I will spend the rest of this blog discussing my interests in youth farm safety and some of the oppurtunities existing there. I will spend my next blog discussing the youth horse safety opportunities. I gathered some information from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that discusses a grant they offer that deals specifically with youth farm safety. The following is taken directly from the USDA website: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/youthfarmsafetyeducationandcertification.cfm?pg=6
The Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification Program (YFSECP) supports national efforts to deliver timely and pertinent information dealing with the training of youth that are seeking employment or are already imployed in agriculture production. The program has critical ties to the current regulations for youth employment in agriculture, especially the exemptions provided in 29 CFR Part 570, subpart E-1 for youth under the age of 16 employed in some agricultural occupations having obtained certification.
There's obviously much more to this but will have to end this blog for now. During my next blog I will spend some time discussing the importance, justification and impact of this grant. I will also spend sometime disucssing my other grant dealing with horse safety for youth.
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This is a really interesting problem and I think you are in a good position to both gather resources to address the problem and likely conduct some successful grant seeking. I see above that you've identified that you're going to work with the organization for which you are already employed. I'll be interested in seeing how this evolves. Are these two issues things that your job currently deals with or will these issues be new endeavors added to your current job responsibilities for which you will have to make a case?
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