WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility

We did it! LEARN MORE at the link…

Myelinating @ MacLaren!

WHERE: MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility, 2630 N Pacific Hwy, Woodburn, OR 97071; go first to the Gatehouse to check in.

WHEN: Wednesday, September 25, **1:00pm – 5:00pm**

“Because the brain is undergoing such rapid, fundamental changes at this stage of life, adolescents have a heightened capacity to learn and to [grow] out of risky behavior. Given an environment and supports appropriate to their developmental stage, most young offenders have the potentialto become law-abiding adults.” — The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience

We are excited to return to MacLaren, and meet with more young people curious about the brain, and the policy implications of ongoing neuroscience research on adolescent development, bias, trauma, drugs, and mental health in terms of education, healthcare, criminal justice and the law…

Our plan for the afternoon is as follows…

1:00pm Arrive @ MacLaren
1:30 – 3:00pm: Group One (10 – 15)
3:00 – 3:30pm: Coffee break 🙂
3:30 – 5:00pm: Group Two (20 – 25)

We’ll start with introductions, informally ask what youth already know, and would like to know, examine specimens  –  and make art. We’re thinking about drawing brains  –  the brains we’ll bring, our own brains as we see them, what we might like them to be, and/or how we think others see them.

Later in the year we hope to share some of these works with public high school students, get their impressions, and offer them an opportunity to draw their own brains too  –  and then return both the art and student responses to youth at MacLaren.

The HOPE Partnership is providing pens, markers and paper for drawing, and we’ll bring along pipe cleaners, nitrile gloves, extra noggins and plenty of grads, post-docs and undergrads who study the brain…

Learn more about NW Noggin at MacLaren at these links…

All is in motion, is growing, is you

LEARN MORE: Youth get visual, hands-on experience with the brain

Corrections, Bias & Brains

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
Gail Stonebarger, OHSU
Aaron Eisen, National University of Natural Medicine
Michael Deveney, PSU
Cam Howard, PSU
Taylor Stewart, University of Portland
Sai Kiersarsky, PSU
Ali Mirzazadeh Javaheri, PSU
Heather Hamilton, OHSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
Evan Segura, Portland Community College
Sara Moreno, PSU
Tracy Gomez, PSU
Maria Galvan-Bravo, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Mar Borrego, OHSU