Enrollment for Youth Members

Detailed instructions for enrolling new youth members

1. Enroll or re-enroll at the new ZSuite site

• Go to https://4h.zsuite.org
• Click Sign Up
• Create a Household (for example, the parent or guardian will make one household account for all 4-H youth members in that family).
• Click + Household Member to add individuals to the household and then be able to enroll them in 4-H.
• Complete the 4-H enrollment form, including unit (East Hills), project, and waivers (liability for example).
  • Please note that East Hills does NOT use the ZSuite project signups for our process, so if you don’t see the project you will be joining (our projects aren’t in the system yet), just select one to finish the enrollment. You can edit it later.
• Click Submit
• Once done, you should receive an email stating the youth member’s enrollment has been submitted but not yet approved. Approval happens after fees are paid (or a fee waiver sent to Kris) and the member agreement is signed.
• Only youth need to enroll unless the adult is going to be a certified volunteer.

2, Pay annual dues

• Pay 4-H fees online here: Alameda County Online Credit Card payment link
• Youth will pay 100$, volunteers pay 30$.
• East Hills will reimburse all youth members 35$ so they are only paying 65$ to join our club (we fund-raise to make up the difference). State 4-H is now requiring the online payment so this is our workaround.
• If you come to the September or October club meeting, Kris will have either cash or the club checkbook to reimburse members 35$. We will only reimburse members who have a printed confirmation of paying their fees (we can’t easily check as of 4September2023).
• If you need the reimbursement to be mailed, please email Kris.
• We never turn anyone away for inability to pay, download the fee waiver here and return a filled out digital copy to Kris.

3. Submit a signed Member Agreement for your family.

• To make enrollment as easy as possible, we are now using an online Member Agreement. Signing this means you have read our Operating Rules as well as our Code of Conduct. Click here for the online form

4. Select projects

As of 20 Aug2023, we do not have the project list and descriptions yet, but we are working on them! The project selection form will be on this website and I’ll update this page as soon as I have them finished.

1. Look through the project descriptions and the schedule (month view) to get an idea of which projects your child would like to take. The “descriptions” PDF has a table of details at the beginning, so scroll past that to reach the detailed descriptions of each project. The details table tells you day/time of meetings, which age a project is intended for, plus any notes that might apply.
2. Once you have some projects, the next step is to rank them from #1 to whatever, #1 being the project your child most wants. We do this to give each member the best chance of having their most desired project since some projects will have limited space. In general, most members get almost all of their desired projects but we always have a few popular ones!
3. You can send me the project information in two ways:
   • Fill out the project selection form at:
   • Alternatively, type all the information from the signup sheet (don’t forget name, age, etc) directly into an email to me, just listing the project choices with a number.
4. The deadline for getting project choices in is September 13th, 2023, but that’s only for the ranked choice process, projects are open after that, just subject to availability.