May 3, 2024 | Digital Showcase | Humboldt Library
All Presenters & Abstracts
Foundation and Development of Satellite Case Manager Position at Transitional Residential Treatment Facilities
Presentation Year: 2017
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
Presentation Year: 2017
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
Presentation Year: 2017
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
Presentation Year: 2017
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
Presentation Year: 2017
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.
Harm Reduction Training for Residential Facilities
Presentation Year: 2017
This project aims to educate staff and participants in residential facilities about the practices of harm reduction through open dialogue. The essence of having this discussion is to highlight the ways in which these programs already implement these practices and can further develop harm reduction methods to best support their population. The topics are framed around the concepts of self awareness, safety (physical & emotional)concerns, best practices, and lasty defining harm reduction as whole through team building activities. By collectively choosing a harm reduction philosophy we can begin to address the risks and work together in developing safer and healthier ways to minimize harm.
Health attitude change associated with health education among college students
Presentation Year: 2017
Drawing from stages of behavioral change framework, the goal of this research study is to examine changes in importance and confidence ratings for health behavior change associated with the course ‘Health Psychology.’ We hypothesize that self-efficacy for behavioral change will be associated with greater importance ratings. We further hypothesize that ratings of importance and confidence for diet and exercise change will increase from the beginning to end of the semester. A survey was administered to 227 undergraduate students in Health Psychology during the first and last two weeks of class. Results suggest that health curriculum may be associated with health behavior attitude change.
Histories of Chinese Communities in Humboldt County: A Source Collection
Presentation Year: 2017
This research project examines the historical experience of Chinese communities living in Humboldt County in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with particular focus on the 1885 Chinese expulsion from Eureka. Offering a broad survey of primary sources, the project delves into personal letters, court cases, retrospective reports, newspaper articles, maps, and photographs to piece together a multi-faceted picture of the Chinese experience in the region. Newspapers from the time also shed light on the expulsion of the majority of the Chinese population from Eureka on 8 February 1885, a tumultuous event that dramatically transformed the culture and history of the county.
Housing Displacement & HSU Former Foster Youth: A Policy Brief
Presentation Year: 2017
In addition to many other barriers to degree completion, former foster youth may also have fewer financial resources to cover the high cost of attending college because they may not have as much family support as students who have not been in the foster care system. This presentation summarizes the work from my MSW community project and aims to describe how former foster youth attending Humboldt State University (HSU) may be experiencing housing displacement. Transitional Housing Placement Plus (THP-Plus) and Transitional Housing Placement Plus Foster Care (THP+FC) are supportive living environments for college-aged youth who were in foster care or probation.
HSU River Otter Citizen Science Project
Presentation Year: 2017
We are interested in describing the distribution and demography of otters on the coasts, wetlands, and watersheds in Humboldt, Del Norte, and surrounding counties. The river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a key bio-indicator of the health of our environment as they sit at the top of this water-based food chain. Unlike most otter habitats around the world, it is thought that the Pacific north coast still supports a thriving otter population. The initial goals of the study are to: establish a network of otter observers; assess spatial and temporal variation in otter distribution; conduct observational studies on otter foraging; assess diet, home range, and site faithfulness.
HSU SkillShops: Campus Collaborations that Motivate Student Learning
Presentation Year: 2017
Our poster discusses SkillShop development from Fall 2013 - Fall 2016 and our focus on student learning and motivation. We have adapted John Keller’s ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) Model of Motivation Theory for designing SkillShops workshops. Learn about the lesson planning questions that SkillShop facilitators use to design lesson plans for 50-minute drop-in workshops, to ensure that workshop content connects the learner to their coursework, personal and professional growth, and supports independent learning. This poster will share the data on SkillShop themes and attendance compared to campus data and the partnerships that have expanded HSU SkillShops.
HSU VETS Outdoor Program
Presentation Year: 2017
HSU VETS Outdoor program is a recreational based program designed to assist student veterans in their transition for military to civilian/student life. Recreation has long been shown to provide therapeutic benefits to those who engage in it. The HSU VETS Outdoor program is no exception and increases the overall wellbeing of veterans on campus by creating support networks and reestablishing bonds familiar to those who have served in the military furthermore assisting the veterans ability to be a successful student. The HSU VETS Outdoor Program runs year around and participates in a variety of recreational outings from skiing/snowboarding in the winter to rafting in the summer.
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Issue 39 Diversity and Social Justice in Higher Education
Presentation Year: 2017
This special issue of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations (HJSR) captures work and experiences in
higher education as they relate to changes and challenges around diversifying U.S. college campuses.
Race, class, gender, sexuality, able-bodiedness, and citizenship shape contemporary conversations about
campus climate, curricular content, organizational structures, decision making and the disparate impacts
of related policy changes or stagnation. These conversations shape the everyday experiences of faculty
and staff, and ultimately are linked to student success.
Humboldt's Homeless
Presentation Year: 2017
Understanding how limited funding for public health services impacts the homeless population of Humboldt County, California. This includes the demographic of the homeless population, the types of local public health services, and the current and future problems of the homeless in regards to access to public health services. Finally, considers local and national policy options to address the issue.
Implementing the Sources of Strength program with Indigenous Youth on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation.
Presentation Year: 2017
My project will directly serve the American Indian population located on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. The Hoopa community suffers from numerous traumatic issues. I am fortunate to not only to be aware of the issues, but I am dedicated to create positive opportunities for the Hoopa community. My project will be creating a strong group of positive role models to help implement the Sources of Strength program with the Indigenous Youth of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Implementation of this program will decrease suicide rates and idealizations.
In the Face of Drought: Do Fuel Reduction Treatments Promote Drought Resistance at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area?
Presentation Year: 2017
In this study, we investigated the influence of thinning and prescribed fire on tree growth responses to multi-year drought conditions in the dry forests of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in northern California. Specific questions include: 1) Do fuel reduction treatments influence forest resistance to drought stress? 2) What individual tree-level and site-level factors (i.e. size, crown height, competition, pre-disturbance tree growth) influence tree growth responses? 3) Do tree growth responses change over years of successive drought stress?
Indian Child Welfare Act Training
Presentation Year: 2017
Training curriculum and presentation on the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Integration and Supports for MSW Advance Standing Students
Presentation Year: 2017
The HSU Social Work Department is interested in better integrating the AS students into the existing two-year MSW program by considering instructor knowledge and awareness of the introduction of AS students, the importance and development of interpersonal relationships between the two cohorts, how AS students adjust to graduate-level work and how prepared AS students are for graduate-level work. The purpose of this project was to evaluate what changes have been made since the initial report by Assistant Professor César Abarca, MSW, Ph.D. conducted in 2014 and what recommendations could be made from the experience of the 2016-2017 on-campus advanced year cohort and existing instructors.
Keep on Truckin': The Social Life of a Log Trailer in Eureka, CA between 1880-1940
Presentation Year: 2017
Eureka Ironworks, located in Old Town Eureka, was an iron manufacturing and fabrication company that was in business from the late 1800's through the 1940's. This project investigates the local economy and manufacturing process in the late 1800's through early 1900's, by focusing on the fabrication of log trailers. Through archival research in the Eureka Ironworks Historical Collection and Humboldt Room, this project aims to examine the social life of a log trailer in order to understand how this product fit into the Humboldt County economy. This research traces the log trailer from schematic, through fabrication, to its use in the local lumber industry.
Kriging Interpolation of Understory Light for Prediction Modeling of Stump Sprout Growth in Mixed Multiaged Stands in California
Presentation Year: 2017
We studied conifer and hardwood regeneration response to experimental harvest treatments conducted ~100 years after the first harvest (clearcut). We examined relationships between understory light, varying overstory tree retention, and growth of coast redwood and tanoak stump sprouts arising after complete and partial harvest. First, we quantified understory light throughout this 30 ha experiment comparing four different retention treatments repeated at four sites. Then we related understory light to post-treatment stand density, treatment type, and regeneration. Redwood sprouts outperformed tanoak by different margins, and grew most rapidly in high light.