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Affinity & Affection: Adolescent Relationships, Andrea Lopez Dec 2020

Affinity & Affection: Adolescent Relationships, Andrea Lopez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The Epicenter is a resource center that serves LGBTQ, system affected, and at-risk youth in Monterey County. The problem being addressed is the misconceptions about healthy and unhealthy relationships among youth. Many young people fall into unhealthy relationships or behaviors due to not understanding the healthy characteristics of relationships. A contributing factor to unhealthy relationships is youth seeing examples of unhealthy relationships in their home. This leads them to practice or seek out similar unhealthy behaviors that they have witnessed. Unhealthy relationships harm a young person’s perception of relationships and the behaviors they will exhibit later in life. The consequences …


Educating Fourth Graders On The Benefits Of Practicing Yoga, Anahi Castaneda May 2020

Educating Fourth Graders On The Benefits Of Practicing Yoga, Anahi Castaneda

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Many elementary school age students have not yet developed sufficient strategies for stress management, and particularly may be unaware of the benefits of yoga. Because they do not have well-developed strategies, they are more vulnerable to negative effects of stress such as poor behavior problems or low school performance. Yoga may help these children better manage stress. Therefore, I created a three-day lesson for fourth graders at Virginia Rocca Barton Elementary School in Salinas, California.


The Importance Of Nutrition Education In Kinder, Guadalupe Bravo-Estrada May 2020

The Importance Of Nutrition Education In Kinder, Guadalupe Bravo-Estrada

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This paper attempts to provide a complex understanding of the importance of exposing nutrition education to children at an early age.