YDP 8880: Individual Artifact

This serves as the individual artifact for YDP 8880: Special Topics: Youth Development and Nature. Through this course, we examined nature-based experiences with a youth development lens. This artifact's purpose was to identify a nature based issue and analyze it. I chose to examine the well-being that results from nature exposure-particularly through dosage modeling. Research helped me better understand what well-being meant for youth, because it is such a broad term. It gave me a way to further understand application of developmental outcome domains. The analysis also helped me to come up with creative solutions to make nature accessible to help break the nature-deficit many youth are facing today.