Youth Leadership Webinar Series
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Over the next few months, the National Empowerment Center will be offering webinars on approaches to youth leadership in peer-run organizations.
Our next webinar in the series is Tuesday, August 8th, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
2:00 p.m. ET - 3:30 p.m. ET
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Supporting Neurodivergent Students in Higher Ed & Challenging Discrimination: Human Rights & Social Justice
Featuring the work of three lived experience activists, including Bowen Cho (founder of Neurodivergent U), Nev Jones (University of Pittsburgh), and Shira Collings (National Empowerment Center), this webinar will present on current barriers to inclusion and integration in higher education, including threat assessment and response protocols that in many cases target neurodivergent students, campus initiated involuntary commitment and involuntary/mandated leaves of absence. Lived experience will be woven throughout. The webinar will conclude with a panel discussion regarding transformative strategies for change.
Objectives:
1. Explain three ways in which campus threat protocols disproportionately single out and potentially harm students with disabilities
2. Describe the range of mandated leave policies across college campuses and how these can harm students
3. Articulate three strategies for transformative change
Presented By:
Nev Jones
Nev Jones, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, and has been a PI or co-investigator on numerous NIH, NIDILLR and PCORI grants. Her research has focused on public sector mental health services, including crisis response, early intervention, and intersections with the criminal justice system. She co-leads the initiative Transform Mental Health : Advancing User/Survivor Capacity & Leadership in Mental Health Research and serves as a lead editor/editorial associate at both Psychiatric Services and Community Mental Health Journal.
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Bowen Cho
Bowen is a neurodivergent, queer, and disabled scholar-activist with a
background in quantitative research methods. They are the co-founder of
Neurodivergent-U, a web-based project that ranks US colleges based on
how well they meet the needs of disabled and neurodivergent students.
They are currently working on a research project with Nev Jones
analyzing "Students of Concern" records at US universities. This
research investigates a widespread reporting mechanism used by
universities to surveil a broad range of student behaviors under the
lens of threat assessment and crisis intervention, purportedly to help
students, but often used to remove and disappear those exhibiting signs
of distress. Bowen is a 2023 Emerge Fellow with the Paul K. Longmore
Institute on Disability.
Moderator: Shira Collings
Youth Coordinator, National Empowerment Center
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This flyer was developed [in part] under grant number SM082648 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS. |
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