WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility

We did it!

Listening at MacLaren

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

WHEN: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023, 2:00 – 5:00pm

2:00pm: Arrival at gate
2:15 – 2:45pm: Brain/art material set up
2:45 – 4:00pm: Meeting with UNIT 1
4:00 – 5:00pm: Meeting with UNIT 2

“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 potential to 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.

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:

Myelinating @ MacLaren!

All is in motion, is growing, is you

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

Corrections, Bias & Brains

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Alexandria Bills, PSU
4. Emilee Brnusak, PSU
5. Angela Hendrix, NW Noggin
6. Martin Lemke, PSU
7. Julian Rodriguez, PSU
8. Conner Corbett, PSU
9. Brooke Hyland, PSU
10. Khelen Walsh, PSU
11. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU