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California Human Relations Commissions: A Survey of Needs, Capacities, and Interests
No full textResearch was conducted as a service-learning capstone project in partnership with the California Association of Human Relations Organizations (CAHRO). The purpose was to gather information relevant to CAHRO’s mission of serving and strengthening our state’s local human relations commissions (HRCs), and to explore the feasibility of creating service-learning partnerships between HRCs and California State University campuses (through their respective Centers for Community Engagement). Responses to an online survey were received from 30 of California’s 43 active HRCs. Key findings are presented in the area of resources, key issues addressed, populations served, and interest in engaging in specific statewide initiatives (including an anti-hate crime network, CAHRO’s statewide bulletin, and proposed human relations / service learning partnerships). 
Commuter Student at CSU Channel Islands: Transportation, Time, and Engagement
No full textThis research was conducted to better understand commuter students at CSUCI – focusing on patterns of transportation and time use, and actual and desired campus engagement. The purpose was to collect and report on systematic data that to assist in the development of programs to better serve the needs of commuter students. The project includes two components: a survey conducted in the spring of 2013 and a series of micro-interviews (designed to be 2-3 minutes each) conducted in the spring of 2014. The survey was conducted online, and includes data from 113 respondents. Interviews were designed to cross-check and expand on the survey findings with open-ended responses, and include data from 78 respondents. Findings are presented in the following areas: commuter student demographics; patterns of transportation; time use on and off campus; and interests in campus engagement
Camarillo Certified Farmers Market Patron Survey Report
No full textResearch was conducted as a service-learning project by Sociology students from California State University, Channel Islands, for the benefit of Camarillo Hospice (which sponsors the Camarillo Certified Farmers Market). Analyses are based on a sample of 162 market patrons completing questionnaires during the first two weekends in March. Findings include data regarding patron demographics; patterns of patronage; satisfactions and preferences; and patrons’ awareness regarding Camarillo Hospice
CURES: Ventura County Prescription Data
No full textCURES is a database of Schedule II, III and IV controlled substance prescriptionscommitted to the reduction of prescription drug abuse without affecting legitimate medicalpractice or patient care. Given a subset of data from California’s Prescription Drug MonitoringProgram, we are focusing our efforts on Ventura County. With general patient information suchas age, zip code of pharmacy where the prescription is filled as well as the prescription itself, weare analyzing our dataset in order to spot potential drug abuse. We are interested in finding acorrelation, if it exists, between age, zip of pharmacy, or gender and how this relationship mayaffect prescriptions provided within our county. Through creating classification targets in orderto simplify our given attributes of zip code of pharmacy, prescriptions provided, and drugstrength, we aim to fit a set of attributes to a linear regression model
Developing a Model for Effective Community Organizing Training
No full textThis study is based on research conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a three-day community organizing training workshop involving 38 organizers based in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The training was co-sponsored by the McCune Foundation, Fund for Santa Barbara, Kaiser Permanente Foundation and Weingart Foundation. Data were collected through baseline surveys conducted with training participants and the Executive Directors of their organizations, as well as field observations by researchers from California State University Channel Islands during the training in April 2017. Descriptive statistics and t-tests were used to analyze survey results, and thematic analysis was performed on the field observation data. The analyses led to a list of recommendations for foundations interested in hosting similar events in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and beyond in the future
Achieving Reading Equity
No full textIn 2012, Laguna Vista School in the Ocean View School District, Ventura County, implemented a program of reading intervention services to struggling readers. The program provides a mix of push-in and pull-out services led by a credentialed teacher and several instructional assistants. This program evaluation was designed to determine the impact of the program created for students who were not reading at grade level. Five years of reading achievement data from the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and three years of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) English Language Arts/Literacy were analyzed to determine program impact. The study found that basic reading skills of students who received reading intervention services grew significant with some effect sizes exceeding two standard deviations. Growth on Common Core State Standard assessments, however, were not as impressive. Recommendations for reading comprehension improvement are provide
Foster Youth Mentorship
No full textResearch was conducted as a partnership between Casa Pacifica and the CSUCI Sociology Program as a senior capstone project. The research goal is to develop a better understanding of the experiences and motivations of volunteers serving foster youth, with specific interests in encouraging more volunteers to take on mentor roles. Research was based on qualitative interviews conducted with twenty volunteers who serve foster youth at Casa Pacifica – including ten members each of the Casa Pacifica Amigos and the California Youth Connection Adult Supporters. Members of both organizations were chosen in order to broaden the range of volunteer experiences and to facilitate informal comparisons. Interviews help us to understand volunteers’ understandings of mentorship and the sources of satisfaction in that activity; pathways to deepening involvement; and suggestions for encouraging more mentorship
Assessing the Impacts of a Helping Hand
No full textThis research study was conducted by students in the Sociology Program at CSU Channel Islands as a service-learning project for the senior capstone course. Research consists of 34 qualitative interviews conducted in a one month period at Project Understanding (in both English and Spanish). Findings address the following areas: demographics of clients; patterns of public assistance; circumstances leading to pantry use; sharing of food with community members; components of respondents’ food supply; preferences regarding supplies at pantry; and impacts of the pantry on clients and the community
Graded Events
No full textThe purpose of this presentation is to present a platform that promotes equitable grading practices. The legal implications for grading is first introduced to provide the justification for grading practices that do not impinge of the liberty of students. Topics of late work, due dates, homework, grade inflation, and confidentiality are addressed through equitable lenses