Pipeline for Diverse Nutrition Students to Become Certified Lactation Counselors

The objective of the proposed project is to increase the number of underrepresented human and nutrition science undergraduate students pursuing a career as lactation professionals in rural areas of Ventura County. This collaborative large-scale project?s goal is designed to increase the number of diverse students entering the food and agriculture related sciences. In this project, California State University, Nort...

The CSU 5+ VITA Initiative

The CSU 5+ VITA Initiative is a collaboration among the California State University campuses and select community colleges in Los Angeles County focused on developing and integrated and coordinated free tax preparation services to low income taxpayers in Los Angeles County through the volunteer efforts of trained and certified student tax preparers.

Pathways to Lactation Consulting for Human Sciences Students

The goal of the proposed project is to enhance the human sciences education at CSUN by developing a curriculum to prepare diverse workforce to serve in an emerging profession in the human sciences as Lactation Consultants. This proposal would prepare our underrepresented students, particularly Hispanic students, from nutrition, family consumer sciences and health sciences to take part in an innovative human science curriculum and comple...

Pathways to Success for Hispanic Students as Registered Dietitians

The Pathways to Success for Hispanic Students as Registered Dietitians project (Pathways) develops a comprehensive cooperative pipeline for recruiting, retaining, and supporting undergraduate and graduate students in order to prepare them for careers as Registered Dietitians. Through a cooperative initiative between CSUN and Mission College, the two institutions plan to collaborate by developing and institutionalizing a pipeline o...

Advancing Professional Competencies of Graduate Nutrition Students in the Area of Lactation Education

The purpose of this project proposed by California State University, Northridge is to increase recruitment and graduation rate of Hispanic nutrition graduate students and to advance their professional competencies in the area of breastfeeding education. Our project aims to address the under-representation of Hispanics in the nutrition and dietetic profession and the corresponding under-represent...