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My supervisor and I, helping for Honor Roll Recognition

During my freshman and sophomore years, I worked with the Educational Partnerships Center, part of UC Santa Cruz. This center offered four-year college preparatory programs. One of these was the Access Program, established at E.A. Hall Middle School in Watsonville. This program prepared middle school students for high school, gave them an understanding of the opportunities available when attending college, and provided them with tutoring support. Through this program, I connected with students, allowing me to assist them academically. I also translated for students and helped them learn to write, read, and speak English. In this community, I gained insight into the factors affecting the students I worked with, which helped me develop better strategies for their benefit.

I'm translating the introduction during the Huron training for Campo Sano

Being able to translate into Spanish has been a great skill through the promotora training. It allowed me to speak for communities, some of the citizens I worked with couldn't speak English, but I was able to voice them. By translating I was able to make connections with community members, and also prepared for further training.

Article Reporting the Project: news.ucsc.edu/2025/02/farmworker-health-climate-change.html

I’m presenting in Huron about Air Quality Contamination among farmworkers.

This experience enabled me to obtain training as a community health worker. I connected with the communities of Huron and Watsonville. This accomplishment was significant to me, as it allowed me to assist and educate community members about health issues they faced. Knowing I could share this information made me feel confident that we were making a positive impact. For my insights, I improved my public speaking, and teamwork and explained factors that can impact an individual's health.

Internship at 7th Avenue Center

My internship has taught me that my role in the community and the field of public health are important. Many of the patients I interacted with developed mental health illnesses due to the opioid pandemic, which let me realize that as a community health worker, more information about prevention should be shared to communities. Also, there's a shortage of health workers in the mental health department, it is not easy since there can be times when a patient can be difficult to calm down. Additionally, the pay is low, and the work that the CNAs and LVNs put in is heavy. However, they are essential, in my internship, patients would need nurses constantly, for medication and to be able to describe their symptoms. I can see how nurses guide these patients through rehabilitation, which supports again why nurses are important health workers.

Coming into the internship, I had set goals for myself and I can say now that I finished, I have accomplished these goals. An important goal for myself was to get familiar with medical procedures, and through nurse shadowing I was able to observe how to administer a shot, medical terminology, and more insight on medication. Another goal I had set for myself was to get more experience in working with patients. I was able to get this experience through my internship and also get comfortable with public speaking. These two goals were important because they are essential for nursing school and my future career. I'm grateful for the opportunity and the experience has definitely prepared me for my next academic journey.

Task Force Research Project

Through this research paper on creating educational pathways for farm workers, I gained experience in areas such as interviewing, data collection, and teamwork. Creating a white paper was a helpful experience for further research because not only did I learn to put together our group's research, but other two topics from other groups. Having this perspective allowed me to think about how I will connect with other's research and organize it in a way the reader can follow along. I was able to gather data, connect with community members, and assist them in ways that could support their future careers. Being part of a task force helped me acquire skills and knowledge that I can use for future research and my career, but more importantly, to advocate for farmworker communities.

Research Report: Task Force Research Paper

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