I chose to initiate this organization because I have the passion, credibility, and experience to instruct and coordinate groups of people regarding anything to do with the game of golf. I have always yearned to play the game of golf with others of my age too, which made me believe that there must be students that feel the same. There are also limited opportunities for students who play the game of golf because there is no existing club or sports team associated with the university. Lastly, nearby golf courses have great discounts for college students that could be better utilized.

The market match program allows EBT/SNAP cardholders to use their benefits at local farmers market with an extra incentive. Through the market match incentive, customers will receive an additional $15 to spend at local farmers markets. The North Coast Growers Association is determined to building more sustainable food systems and robust communities. Help save this essential program and help our community.

The Health-Efficacy Scale for College Students (HESCS) assesses an individual’s belief in their capacity to change their own health. This investigation examined the psychometric properties of the HESCS by examining reliability and validity with a sample of psychology major students at a small University in northern California. Reliability was examined by utilizing internal consistency with a Cronbach’s alpha, rα=.82, and a test-retest separated by one-week on a subsample of 20 participants, rtt=.77. HESCS was shown to have convergent validity, R2=.32, F(2,98)=23.13, p<.01. These results show that the HESCS is a reliable and valid scale for measuring Health-Efficacy in College Students.

I developed a needs assessment for DHHS, North Coast AIDS Project. This was used to evaluate the needs of our clients and evaluate the program services that we provide. This assessment also helps to acquire any future funding for these services offered to Humboldt County residents living with HIV/AIDS.

This project is the creation of a training and continuing education manual for In Home Supportive Services, social workers. Gaps and barriers in training will be assessed through a survey to current staff. Results will be analyzed and considered in the development of new training materials. A variety of learning methods, as well as information on working with culturally diverse populations will be considered in the creation of the manual. The intended purpose of this project is to create equitable services to the clients, as well as providing extra education and resources to reduce burnout and turnover of staff.

An in depth description of what it means to be a Big for Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a local youth mentoring non profit. Connected to BBBS by the College CORP program, Fellows Ivory Rose, Kai Jones, and Emily Martin share their experiences. They each explain how their relationships with their Littles' have impacted their lives.

Throughout the Spring 2017 semester, I conducted my service learning at the Sunny Brae Middle School afterschool program. Using my experience from the Environmental Studies program, I led an environmental art class where students learned the importance of frameworks by looking giving a critical look at photographers work and also putting what they learned to practice by taking photos of their own. I hope that knowing how frameworks operate will allow the students to be critical about the produced world around them.

Serving in the community is a proven way for students to build a sense of belonging on campus and throughout the greater community while applying the things they are learning in their courses. As an intern in the Center for Service Learning and Academic Internships I have been able to put into practice the commitment to social justice and diversity from Sociology and the skills in Social Advocacy, Community Organizing, and service through nonprofit organizations through participation through training in activism at Berkely, creating the Humboldt Cares Club, and recruiting volunteers for the needs of Humboldt County.

Social judgments of faces predict important social outcomes, including leadership decisions. Some studies have even linked these face preferences to actual election outcomes, within one second using just facial cues. Facial dominance and trustworthiness have context-specific effects on leadership decisions, with facial cues linked to dominance being preferred in hypothetical wartime scenarios and facial cues linked to trustworthiness being preferred in hypothetical peacetime scenarios. Here, we report a conceptual replication of Spisak et al. (2012), using only female faces that vary naturally in perceived trustworthiness and dominance.

Interacting with cashiers is commonplace for most Americans. This study included exploration of the nature of customer-cashier interactions. The overarching finding was that social attitudes and expectations for cashiers create a climate in which cashiers are dehumanized and vulnerable. Ultimately, cashiers are expected to maintain a polite, enthusiastic, robotic persona while rules of conduct for customers are mostly unrestrictive. The results exhibit the importance of paying attention to one’s own attitudes and behaviors toward workers. Cashiers are human and attempting to look beyond their “customer service personas” is important to foster positive socialization and environments.