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Experiential Education: Exploring More Effective Ways to Address Social and Environmental Justice with Children and Young Adults
- Amara E. HansEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Experiential education incorporates approaches such as service learning, place-based education, and student-centered learning into traditional and nontraditional education settings. Based on my research paper on experiential education’s role in addressing climate change and justice (“Experiential Education: Preparing Our Climate Change Combaters of The Future”), I am also using my experience with service learning at SCRAP Humboldt to further explore how these forms of education can effectively teach social and environmental justice. These approaches provide children and young adults with better toolkits for becoming future leaders and active citizens in our rapidly changing world.
Factors Influencing Longevity and Wellbeing for CalSWEC Title IV-E Stipend Recipients Working in County Child Welfare Agencies in California
- Erica A. AshbySocial WorkGraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
Social workers employed in county child welfare agencies experience large and complex caseloads, high rates of burnout and consistently high rates of turnover. The California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Project provides BSW and MSW students with additional training in child welfare and a stipend of $18,500 per year in exchange for a year’s work in a county or state child welfare or Tribal agency upon graduation. Data was collected through an electronic survey, completed by county and state child welfare social workers who had participated in the Title IV-E program in order to assess their wellbeing, preparedness and longevity in the position.
Financial Capacity of Local Nonprofits
- Jason JonesMBAGraduate Student
- Chase CookMBAGraduate Student
- Seth FrielMBAGraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
There are currently a variety of nonprofit organizations operating in and serving the needs of Humboldt County. The purpose of this project is to assess the financial needs of these organizations and develop a report to help them expand their capacity. We conducted an extensive literature review of best financial practices at nonprofit organizations, reviewed three years of IRS 990 forms for local nonprofits, and analyzed survey results from a previous local study. Using the best practices we identified during our literature review and the data from our two analyses we developed an action plan for local nonprofit organizations.
Food at School
- Elizabeth PhillipsCommunication StudiesUndergraduate Student
- Michael S. BrunerCommunication StudiesFaculty
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
This chapter explores the intersection of food and place in one of the most important places in the lives of children and youth -- school. The critical rhetorical analysis examines school menus, but makes it clear that food at school involves more than school lunches. Food at school has included breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as vending machines and campus gardens (Duram & Klein, 2015). In the broader society, food at school is at the center of public argumentation about agriculture, citizenship, economics, government, health, power & empowerment, religion, sustainability, and values.
Food Justice Through Decolonization
- Hannah ZivolichEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Food Justice offers a reactionary approach to empower a person and communities’ rights to fresh and healthy affordable food. The Potawot Community Garden not only embraces this approach, but goes further through decolonial practices. In addition, the process of growing an cultivating one’s own food is shown to help heal certain varieties of trauma. Potawot offers its community a unique opportunity by providing fresh, local, and organic produce to local tribes in the greater Humboldt area. Furthermore, Potawot displays a primary example of promoting food justice by promoting justice for indigenous and native peoples by providing access to education and growing one's own food.
Foundation and Development of Satellite Case Manager Position at Transitional Residential Treatment Facilities
- Dustin HaywoodSocial WorkGraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
A foundation was needed for the Satellite Case Manager position at Transitional Residential Treatment Facilities. To address the issue, an employee guidebook was created to define the position and act as a training tool for new employees. Institutional knowledge, experience, and current literature guided the development of a Satellite Case Manager handbook that acts as a foundation for the position. An executive summary was also completed recommending next steps to increase collaboration with stakeholders , clearly define roles of Satellite Case Manager, and to expand the scope of the Satellite Case Manager to better meet the needs of clients and other stakeholders.
Garden Collaborative: Addressing Food Insecurity
- Sam WicksEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
My service learning project addresses the issue of food insecurity in Arcata. Through the benefits of community gardens, greater socio-economic development can be achieved. At Open Door Health and Wellness Garden, I am maintaining and managing the beds in the garden for spring harvest, for the people of Arcata, so they can have easier access to organically grown healthier foods. I am interested in support networks of community gardeners as resources to sustain locally grown organic food and the health benefits that community gardens offer.
Gardening for Change
- Ciera Townsley-McCormickEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
- Madi WhaleyEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
In Spring Semester 2017, we dove into a service learning project with Pacific Union School. We are contributing to the garden coordinator’s vision for an interdisciplinary, garden-based learning program that incorporates aspects of social and environmental justice. We have worked to create a reciprocal learning environment, such as described by authors in the Environmental Studies curriculum. We believe this is one step toward addressing the inequalities, environmental degradation, and corruption inherent in the global industrial food system. These injustices span issues such as race, class, gender, health, and the environment, which we have been exposed to throughout our journey at HSU.
Getting Fit with Athletes
- Daniel CoxChild DevelopmentUndergraduate Student
- Danielle PfeiferChild DevelopmentUndergraduate Student
- Elizabeth TaylorChild DevelopmentUndergraduate Student
- Rochelle CraigChild DevelopmentUndergraduate Student
College of Professional Studies
The four of us volunteered for the HSUfit program. In this program we meet every Friday for three hours and try to work and be with the kids any way we can. We run adapted physical education activities with children with special needs. At the end of the day we record the progress the child made that week towards their goals. Through this project we essentially are describing what we do, why it's important, and how it's impacting these kids.
Greenway Partners: A Residency for HSU Graduates in Downtown Eureka
- Rebecca Ron and James BradasEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
In growing need to accommodate graduate students' housing issues from Humboldt State University as well as the need for urban revitalization projects in Old Town Eureka, ENST seniors James Bradas and Rebecca Ron partnered with Greenway Partners: an Arcata-based engineering design, consultancy, and facilitation firm to continue with the lead on this project. Through research within the Old Town quarter of Eureka, research in city, county, and state municipal code, and using the lived experiences of the Humboldt State domestic experience with the current housing market, a conceptual framework grew from a critical understanding about the community, place, and placement of prospective housing.