Kate Fogarty

Assistant Professor
Youth Development
3002-A McCarty Hall D
PO Box 110310
Gainesville, FL 32611-0310
Phone: (352) 392-7087
E-mail: kfogarty@ufl.edu
Website: TeeningUp

Kate Fogarty’s specialty area is in youth development with a 60% Extension / 4-H and 40% teaching appointment at the Department of Family, Youth, and Community Sciences. Her experience in Extension includes program implementation and evaluation of youth leadership and character education programs in the Athens, Georgia area. She has taught classes and led workshops in the topic of guidance with children and adolescents as well as assisted various early childhood Extension programs in Georgia. Specific to 4-H, Kate has served as an evaluator for violence prevention programs in Atlanta and as an evaluation consultant to a 4-H statewide after school program in North Carolina.  

Kate completed both her thesis research and dissertation at the University of Georgia in the Department of Child and Family Development. Her thesis research entitled, A personal perspective on adolescent risk behavior: Validation of a developmental measure of personal meaning, examined how personal meaning of risk behavior bridges the “knowledge-action gap” to explain why at-risk, minority, inner city youth engage in risky behavior, even when they seem to understand the dangerous consequences.  

Her dissertation research entitled, Long-term effectiveness of early intervention: Testing a mediator model of adolescent risk, was conducted using data from the Woodlawn Epidemiological Mental Health Longitudinal Study, consisting of a cohort of low-income, minority youth followed from their first grade years to young adulthood (age 32). Although minimal intervention effects were found (intervention occurred in the 1966-1967 school year) on young adult outcomes (employment and educational attainment), risk behavior and family emotional climate in adolescence appeared to explain the effect of elementary school intelligence and classroom behavior on employment and educational attainment in young adulthood. 

Areas of Specialization 

4-H Youth Leadership

Adolescent Risk Behaviors & At-Risk Youth

Positive Youth Development & Resilience

Planning & Evaluating Programs for Youth

Academic Distinctions

Isabella Carr Koelsche teaching award.

Image Award, as a contributor to Family Album Radio

Professional Societies 

National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA)

Florida Association of Extension 4-H Agents (FAE4-HA)

Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA)

National Council Family Relations (NCFR)

Extension Programs/In-service/Workshops

Fogarty, K. & Norman, M. (2005-2006) The Florida 4-H Recognition Model: Introducing the five types of recognition to 4-H programs. 

Fogarty, K., & Cantrell-Jordan, J. (March, 2005). Youth Today: By Ages and Stages. Presentation at Goal Team 3 Program Development Committee Meeting. Gainesville, FL.

Fogarty, K. (July, 2005). Teens & Risk Behavior: Choices & Consequences. A workshop for 4-H volunteer leaders at the 4-H Volunteer Leaders Forum. Altoona, FL.

Cantrell-Jordan, J., Fogarty, K. & Hirsch, J. (March, 2005). Teen Programming: What teens want and need. Teleconference with 20 county agents (15 who specialize in 4-H, 5 in FYCS)

Fogarty, K. (October, 2003). Positive discipline for preschoolers. A workshop for child care providers, preschool teachers, and parents sponsored by Laurens County Child Care Training Coalition in association with UGA Cooperative Extension Service (115 child care providers in attendance receiving 2 hours of DHR credit), Dublin, GA.

Courses Recently Taught 

 

FYC 6932, Theories of Youth Development, Spring, 2005

FYC 4212, Contemporary Youth Problems & Solutions, Fall, 2005

Grants

Learning and Leading for Civic Engagement, Department of Education, $100,000, January, 2005, Role: Curriculum Coordinator