The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in healthcare staff turnover. High turnover rates have a detrimental impact on hospitals, staff, and patients. Healthcare turnover causes stress within facilities to find replacements for terminated or resigned nurses. This project is focusing on finding solutions to mitigate healthcare staff turnover rates. The narrative research will focus on interviewing healthcare workers in search of solutions they would like to see be implemented, and to better prepare for the future.

Groups spark social movements for equality and equity, in a system historically designed to exclude them, leading to several obstacles to social progress. Art has an opportunity to reach beyond these obstacles. Using a historic and narrative based inquiry approach, this project will examine social movements to determine whether their artistic or non-traditional methods of protest yielded effective results.

For decades, voter turnout among minorities has significantly lagged behind that of caucasians in the United States. This project will examining whether or not Transit Oriented-Development, an urban planning concept in which housing surrounds a major transportation hub, can help improve voter turnout among minorities.

In the US there is an average of over 3.8 million sports related concussions a year (CDC 2007). Concussions do not just affect you on the field but will affect your well-being in the classroom too. If not given the right treatment or accomodations, students will be at a major disadvantage in school. Concussions can cause individuals to be more distracted, tired, suffer headaches and even have a hard time just understanding the school work. This project will analyze whether athletes with major brain injuries/concussions impact school performance and what exactly we can do about it.

The health disparities that have formed in our society, have adversely affected groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group.The large disparities that are present in health insurance coverage related to race and ethnicity have been a part of the United States for a long time, also being a cause for concern among policymakers and health care professionals. As a result Native American communities face significant inequity in health care and health status compared to other U.S. populations and indigenous Americans continue to die at higher rates than other Americans in many categories of preventable illness.This information will be collected using anything that is easily accessible like texts, databases, such as the Indian Health Services and the American Bar Association, and documents to help understand the problem as thoroughly as possible, for anyone reading.

Hostile/anti-homeless architecture is prevalent all across the globe. This architecture specifically targets the homeless with surgical precision as its creators see those without housing as blights upon cities. This practice contributes to an already massive stigma against homeless people. This project will explore the impact this type of architecture has on homeless populations.

Action Research Project through Changemaker Project. Without a privately hired college counselor or a parent/guardian who has attended college, navigating the college application process can be confusing and complicated. There are online resources, but none that pull all the information together in a clear and easy to navigate way. We want to create a website to simplify and streamline the process of finding information about the college application process for those who might not have the privilege of adequate assistance. Additionally, we will also organize live workshops with college counselors.

Action Research Project through Changemaker Project. In order to shorten the gaps in education between high and low-income schools, we will create a free, group-based tutoring service. We will work in low-income communities and recruit other high-school age tutors to help us run the program. In addition, we will create a website and a social media page to bring awareness to the issue and also advertise our program.

In the Hispanic community, speaking out about your mental illness is looked down upon as reflected by research from National Alliance on Mental Health. This project will explore the importance of understanding cultural differences in the Hispanic Community and why some might not speak out if they tend to suffer.

The foster system has served as a great way to keep children safe in homes under trusted adults, however, the flaws surrounding this system have yet to be addressed. As a result, a fraction of vulnerable children become victims. Some victims feel silenced. This research project aims to discover the main cause of this issue and how it can be improved, including giving children under the age of 18 in foster care a voice.