May 2, 2025
Reception & Presentations 2pm to 5pm
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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RAMP Up Your Courage 2021
Leslie Gonzalez Carrasco
Social Work
Undergraduate Student
Tracy Smith
Retention through Academic Mentoring Program (RAMP)
Staff
College of Professional Studies
RAMP Up Your Courage (RUYC) events were facilitated by peer mentors employed by the First-Year Retention through Academic Mentoring Program (FY-RAMP) and the Major Based Peer Mentoring - Retention through Academic Mentoring Program (MBPM-RAMP). It takes courage to explore academic identities. RUYC was intended to empower students to examine emerging academic identities by connecting them with the MBPM mentors of the same major. By leveraging existing relationships between FY-RAMP and the freshmen whom they serve, as well as partnering FY-RAMP with MBPM-RAMP for the presentations, a bridge was built between the two mentoring programs, benefitting both mentors and students they serve.
Friendship Circles Curriculum for Blue Lake Community Resource Center
Emily Agredano
Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
The Blue Lake Community Resource Center (BLCRC) was approached by Blue Lake Elementary School with a request to facilitate friendship circle-type peer support groups for its students. The BLCRC Coordinator, citing a lack of a formal curriculum/training manual for use by its AmeriCorp worker in the facilitation of these groups, asked for a curriculum manual to be used as a guide for future years’ programs. The curriculum will be designed to align with the cultural and social makeup of this rural community with a focus on developing positive self images and social skills for girls in grades 4 through 6.
Humboldt Tenant Landlord Collaboration (HTLC)
Katelyn Harris
Social Work
Graduate Student
Sonya Woody
Social Work
Graduate Student
Ashley Bradshaw
Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Humboldt Tenant Landlord Collaboration (HTLC) is an educational program designed to create positive working relationships between student tenants and landlord/property managers as a way to mitigate barriers to housing. In order to engage stakeholders in the development of the program, we held three town hall meetings where we facilitated conversations around housing issues in the area. The data that was collected during the town hall meetings is helping to inform the topics in the modules for the program. Our poster showcases our process, our outcomes, and the next steps for HTLC, which will be launched for tenants and landlords by Fall Semester 2019.
Self Determination Theory in Adapted Physical Education
Zachary
Norton
School of Applied Health
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
This research evaluates the success of utilizing Social Determination Theory (SDT) principles in an exercise program for disabled persons. According to SDT, social environments are essential for people to have autonomy, relatedness, and competence, which are essential for motivating exercise. In this study, the researcher looked into the exercise performance of an adult with Down Syndrome over a 6-week program held in a recreation facility in Northern California. The independent variables tested were walking, modified push-ups, and curl-ups. The findings of the study add to the existing literature on the efficiency of applying SDT for programming that caters to people with disabilities.
TCLT Internship Accomplishments
Tatiana Gillick
Environmental Studies
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Trinidad Coastal Land Trust is the organization I am connected with for my service learning project. I am tasked with many responsibilities to complete while in the office. To list a few of the tasks that I have been assigned while interning with Trinidad Coastal Land Trust. Some of the tasks are website review and making sure google maps has the properties under the Trust correctly marked. Being an Environmental Studies major I can use my view in certain situations that come up during meetings to broaden the viewpoints and get to an understanding. I am in contact with multiple people with their own goals in mind and we make collaborative decisions to make TCLT better for the future.
Bringing ADA Compliance to CAPS in the Era of COVID-19
Leta Perriello
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Kammi Loyd
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Kiandria Weaver
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Mathew Hernandez
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Paola Valdovinos
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Cassandra Hernandez
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Eden Hamilton-Flores
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Elli McCool
Psychology
Undergraduate Student
Arianna Neely
Psychology
Graduate Student
Benjamin Graham
Faculty
College of Professional Studies
HSU’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) promotes student well-being by making individual counseling and support groups free and easily accessible to students, which combats the widespread stigma associated with mental health services. As part of the campaign to improve student mental health, CAPS maintains an expansive website with a variety of self-help resources. Our team of Abnormal Psychology students collaborated with CAPS to increase website accessibility by updating slideshow presentations to comply with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA enforces access to civil life for people living with disabilities and, as relevant to this case, requires slideshow
Potawot Community Garden: Moving Beyond Land Acknowledgements
Chrys
Furrer
Other
Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Potawot Community Garden serves as an exemplary model of the environmental and social health impacts of returning Indigenous land to Indigenous hands. The College Corps program, with Potawot as a community partner, gives student fellows the opportunities to serve in support of Potawot's mission of enhancing Indigenous food sovereignty while mitigating food insecurity, restoring the land, and supporting the cultural healing of Indigenous community members as well as the broader community. This project invites readers to take action through volunteer involvement with organizations such as Potawot, making monetary donations to the Wiyot tribe, and advocating for Indigenous land rematriation.
Humboldt Tenant Landlord Collaboration Assessment
Chant'e Catt
Masters of Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
The purpose of this research is to identify the effectiveness of the administered education Humboldt Tenant Landlord Collaboration (HTLC) is offering. Further, if this program has any strong points or gaps in its curriculum. There are benefits to this research, particularly participants will be continued agents of developing a robust community education program around renting in Humboldt County. The participants of this assessment will be voicing their opinions & helping to identify further supports that will help our community. With this, one may feel a sense of pride and connection to their place of residence. I will be presenting the findings of the HTLC assessment.
Acts of Uncovering: Compiling Data on MMIW to Address a Hidden Crisis
Natalie Rose Engber
Social Work
Graduate Student
Toni Loera
Social Work
Graduate Student
Isadora Rivers
Social Work
Graduate Student
Rachel Ryan
Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI) maintains the largest and most comprehensive database of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in the US and Canada. Due to the high number of cases and the desire to have comprehensive information on each individual case, we were honored to work with SBI to compile case files for 107 MMIWG in Northern California. SBI will use this information to have a clearer picture of what is known, what is unknown, and what has been written about or publicly shared about each missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls in Northern California.
HSU Radical Leadership Development Project (RLDP)
Cesar G. Abarca
Social Work
Faculty
Ruby Aguirre
Social Work
Graduate Student
College of Professional Studies
The Radical Leadership Developed is a research and curriculum project aimed to assist these, and other groups, in adopting a leadership program based the interview of 23 HSU students leaders during the academic year 2016-2017. Based on in-depth, face-to-face interview, the researchers developed a 12 week leadership program aimed at students . The purpose of the project was two-fold: (1)t o learn from students leaders which leadership skills and knowledge helped the most while participating in social, cultural and political activities while attending HSU; and (2) to develop a 12-week curriculum to develop the next generation of students leaders.