“As a 4-H alumna myself, facilitating this Youth Summit as part of the 4-H Career Explorations summer program highlighted the importance of empowering young people.”
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My summer turned out to be a completely different experience than I was expecting due to the IRB approval for the project taking much longer than anticipated. However, the change of plans gave me the opportunity to develop another skill that was essential to my translational research training: learning how to effectively communicate about our program’s goals to our community partners.
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Therapeutic Crisis Intervention specifically trains staff members to proactively prevent crises from occurring. My internship opened my eyes to the importance of applying TCI strategies at schools.
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Youth Investigators should have felt magical. After all, it was the needed counterpart to all the petri-dish propaganda and exploding volcano experiment ads. Youth Investigators was foundational in increasing youth understanding around social science. And yet, I didn’t click with it at first.
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Looking back on this past summer experience where I got the chance to work on PRYDE’s Youth Investigators team, I’m still so grateful that such a perfect opportunity arose. Not only was it my first time to truly implement the social science concepts I’ve learned in my classes, but it also allowed me to take on a mentoring role that I was so badly missing from my lifeguarding days.
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I feel that the purpose I am working towards is to improve the wellbeing of youth by working with them and translating research into practical applications for them. Working with PRYDE this summer gave me the incredible opportunity to work hands-on with youth using evidence based practices.
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