WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility

We did it!

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

WHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2024, 1:30 – 5:00pm; ***ARRIVE AT 1:30pm!!

This is the second of two visits to MacLaren this spring: Friday May 17 and Friday, May 24.

Contact: Vanessa Bucio Chavez, Project Coordinator, HOPE Partnership

“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.

We’re also getting a tour of PROJECT POOCH!

Learn more about NW Noggin at MacLaren at these links:

Listening at MacLaren

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. Natalie P Robison, PSU
4. Angrich Brophy, PSU
5. Becky Callos, PSU
6. Cat Swallow, PSU
7. Elizabeth DeGraw, PSU
8. Emilee Brnusak, PSU
9. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU
10. Cece Austin, PSU
11. Isabel Fleischman, PSU
12. Xander Hawkins, PSU
13. Pearl Ton, PSU
14. Hannah Hauser, PSU