My favorite moments with NYS Farmers Market Nutrition Program was raising awareness about the program and connecting people with resources they could use to improve their diet quality and food security. It was the most important and rewarding part of my summer.
Read MoreAttending SCRA was an invaluable experience and has encouraged me to continue learning about how traumatic experiences in early childhood can inform the developmental process.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreTherapeutic 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.
Read MoreYouth 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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