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Kroc Fit Kids Needs Assessment, Brandon Dotts, Jason Jarvinen, Maria Todaro, Morgan Wilson
Kroc Fit Kids Needs Assessment, Brandon Dotts, Jason Jarvinen, Maria Todaro, Morgan Wilson
Program Design and Evaluation
The Salvation Army Kroc Center, a 12.4-acre family support, education, recreation, and cultural arts center located in the Rolando neighborhood of San Diego, is interested in designing an intervention program to alleviate the issue of low levels of physical activity and combat the childhood obesity problem. The Kroc Center is well suited to designing such an intervention because it works closely with six partner elementary schools in its surrounding neighborhoods. To assist the Kroc Center in developing an intervention, this needs assessment examines factors that may lead to low fitness scores, and the potential dangers to students, and the community, …
A Career Development Program For At-Risk Youth Created For Writerz Blok, Anjanette Maraya-Ramey, Nicole Miller-Coleman, Kathy Myrers, Sharon Van Bruggen
A Career Development Program For At-Risk Youth Created For Writerz Blok, Anjanette Maraya-Ramey, Nicole Miller-Coleman, Kathy Myrers, Sharon Van Bruggen
Program Design and Evaluation
Research indicates at-risk youth (ages 15-24) in Southeast San Diego are likely to be unemployed or underemployed, and lack the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue meaningful living-wage (or better) employment. A review of the literature and primary data collection is presented and suggests an individualized career development program, supported by family members, community mentors and peers, would improve the opportunity for these youth to secure meaningful living-wage (or better) employment. The researchers propose the implementation of such a program, utilizing a quasi-experimental study design to determine program effectiveness. Program objectives, work plan, assessment, social marketing, program evaluation, and proposed …
Research Project For Rokenbok Educational Foundation, Brian Becker-Tirrill, Paul Eichen, Stefanie Kurtz-Harris, Jennifer Tracy
Research Project For Rokenbok Educational Foundation, Brian Becker-Tirrill, Paul Eichen, Stefanie Kurtz-Harris, Jennifer Tracy
Program Design and Evaluation
Research project on Equipo de Ingenieros en Accion (Team of Engineers in Action), a collaborative program of Rokenbok Educational Foundation and Center for Academic and Social Advancement.
Natural High Prevention Platform: A Search-Based, Substance Abuse Prevention Program For Sundt Memorial Foundation, Jennifer Martin, Kay Costilow, Rose Baxter, Maureen Guarcello
Natural High Prevention Platform: A Search-Based, Substance Abuse Prevention Program For Sundt Memorial Foundation, Jennifer Martin, Kay Costilow, Rose Baxter, Maureen Guarcello
Program Design and Evaluation
Research project for Sundt Memorial Foundation on Natural High Prevention Platform: a research-based, substance abuse prevention program.