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Pathways to Success: A Career Insights Event for Youth and Parents
Get PDFPartners for Peace (P4P) is a nonprofit organization in Monterey County focused on enhancing parent-child relationships by offering parent education classes and a youth mentorship program. They serve over 432,000 Monterey County residents, composed of a diverse demographic with a predominantly Hispanic population. The young adults in Monterey County face challenges in transitioning to independent adulthood and achieving self-sufficiency. The contributing factors include underfunded educational systems, low educational attainment, and low financial literacy among youth, undoubtedly resulting in ungainful employment, mental illness, and dependence. P4P\u27s Pathways to Success career exploration fair endeavors to boost career awareness and confidence among youth and parents to help address some of these problems, aiming for a 25% increase in career confidence to lead to career stability and self-sufficiency. Despite event delays, post-event engagement metrics aim for a 90% participation rate, expecting positive impacts on youth career exploration
Benefits of Learning Without Homework for Middle School Students
Get PDFThe focus of this senior capstone is to examine the benefits of learning without homework for middle school students. The research draws on the experiences of teachers in Monterey County, who provide personal input and teaching philosophies on this topic. Throughout the use of the literature review, three teacher interviews, and fifty anonymous student surveys, the findings indicate that learning without homework is essential, and in-class workshops have a positive impact on middle school student\u27s academic success. Thus, teachers should recognize that learning without homework and in-class workshops plays a vital role in educating the growing minds of middle school students that could unlock their potential to accomplish academic success
Too Many Seniors in Santa Cruz County Are Food Insecure
Get PDFSince 1977, Community Bridges has been a catalyst for a brighter future by delivering fundamental resources for the people of Santa Cruz County. According to the Seniors Council of Santa Cruz County, “40% of all older Santa Cruzan\u27s (age 65+) do not have enough income to meet their basic needs, food being one of them.” (Bratten, 2021) The majority of these seniors are on fixed incomes and don\u27t have enough resources to afford nutritious food. This number has continued to increase in the past months for those who are homebound, as access to food is especially difficult and the cost of food continues to rise. Keeping Meals on Wheels funded helps with keeping low-income seniors potentially facing less stress and financial hardships. In order to continue preserving senior services for Santa Cruz County, we must create more awareness and strive with programs that could offset hunger and ensure seniors have access to nutritious food
Support Families’ Increased Access to Dental Care
Get PDFThe Monterey County Oral Health Program is a program of the Monterey County Health Department housed under the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Unit. The Oral Health Program focuses on providing educational workshops to parents and classroom presentations to Kindergarten and first graders students. They provide services to schools that have a rate of 80% or higher of students enrolled in Free or Reduced-Price meals (FRPM). Studies show that minority students with low socioeconomic status (SES) have higher rates of untreated cavities in their primary teeth than non-Hispanic White students. The purpose of this project is to provide and educate low-income families on where and who can help them get services to enroll for Medi-Cal, get transportation, or obtain a translator to obtain dental care. The intern was responsible for creating two videos with voiceovers. Those videos are in both English and Spanish and pamphlets with QR codes direct people to the video to make the materials accessible for individuals who have low literacy. The Oral Health program should partner with more school districts and clinics that accept Medi-Cal and provide them with information about assessing dental services
Two Stories to Tell: Different Student Outcome Measures Correlate with Different Instructor Adaptations to COVID-19
Get PDFThe coronavirus pandemic severely disrupted college students’ learning experiences. A growing body of research is attempting to examine the impact of faculty efforts to support students during this difficult time. However, different outcomes measures might lead to varying inferences about the impact of instructors’ adaptations to their pedagogy. We explore this potential for varying inferences through a mixed-methods study of 11 courses taught at a Hispanic-Serving Institution in the United States in Spring 2020. First, using qualitative analytical methods, we identify five types of instructional adaptations made by faculty. Second, we use quantitative methods to uncover associations between these instructional adaptations and a variety of course outcome measures. While all of these instructional adaptations were perceived as beneficial by students, only one--ensuring access to instructor time--was significantly correlated with students’ reported motivational and personal gains from their coursework. However, only a different adaptation—ensuring access to class resources—was significantly correlated with reduced equity gaps measured through course grades. We discuss the implications of these findings for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers
Predictive Ecology and Management of Phyllosphere Microbial Communities Through Cross-Scale Synthesis
Get PDFIn this article, we summarize the main takeaways from a symposium and hybrid virtual and in-person participatory discussion focused on the challenges of scale in understanding the ecology and management of phyllosphere microbial communities. We provide an overview of the confounding effects of spatial scale on inference in microbial ecology, the spatial organization of microbial interactions in the phyllosphere, advances and remaining gaps in measuring phyllosphere colonization across scales, and the epidemiology in the phyllosphere. We hope to motivate further discussion and the development and adoption of creative approaches to solving the challenges of scale to enhance fundamental understanding and practical management of the phyllosphere microbiomes
Connectivity between white shark populations off Central California, USA and Guadalupe Island, Mexico
Get PDFMarine animals often move beyond national borders and exclusive economic zones resulting in a need for trans-boundary management spanning multiple national jurisdictions. Highly migratory fish vulnerable to over-exploitation require protections at international level, as exploitation practices can be disparate between adjacent countries and marine jurisdictions. In this study we collaboratively conducted an analysis of white shark connectivity between two main aggregation regions with independent population assessment and legal protection programs; one off central California, USA and one off Guadalupe Island, Mexico. We acoustically tagged 326 sub-adult and adult white sharks in central California (n=210) and in Guadalupe Island (n=116) with acoustic transmitters between 2008-2019. Of the 326 tagged white sharks, 30 (9.20%) individuals were detected at both regions during the study period. We used a Bayesian implementation of logistic regression with a binomial distribution to estimate the effect of sex, maturity, and tag location to the response variable of probability of moving from one region to the other. While nearly one in ten individuals in our sample were detected in both regions over the study period, the annual rate of trans-regional movement was low (probability of movement = 0.015 yr-1, 95% credible interval = 0.002, 0.061). Sub-adults were more likely than adults to move between regions and sharks were more likely to move from Guadalupe Island to central California, however, sex, and year were not important factors influencing movement. This first estimation of demographic-specific trans-regional movement connecting US and Mexico aggregations with high seasonal site fidelity represents an important step to future international management and assessment of the northeastern Pacific white shark population as a whole
Badly Licked Bear Steps Up to Drive a Van of Supplies to Navajo Nation During Covid-19
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Victims of Crime: System Navigation
Get PDFSanta Cruz County’s Shared Safety Workgroup, a collaborative chapter of United Way Santa Cruz, is working to better meet the needs of survivors and victims of crime. Due to the complexity of their trauma and the systems they navigate many survivors of crime are experiencing re-victimization. UWSCC attempted to create a comprehensive system mapping process for Santa Cruz County’s survivor-serving system with the assistance of community agencies. The expected outcome of the system mapping project is to create the first-ever system mapping tech platform that uniquely autogenerates services for survivors of crime while eliminating specific barriers based on their individual needs. This level of system mapping had never been done statewide or nationally which prolonged the completed project. The project shifted to focus on three agencies that helped to develop three infographics used to distribute to survivor-serving agencies to connect survivors of crime to resources and avoid re-victimization
Increasing Nutrition Education For Collegiate Athletes
Get PDFWhen collegiate athletes do not have nutritional education, they do not properly fuel their body for peak performance on the field and in the classroom. This can lead to disordered eating habits, muscle injuries, and mental health issues. When student- athletes have nutritional intervention and education, they can properly fuel their bodies resulting in faster muscle recovery, higher energy levels, as well as higher GPAs. Therefore, I have created a two-hour workshop on nutrition for the members of the CSUMB women’s soccer team