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 9, 2024, 1:30 – 5:00pm

1:30-2:00pm – Check in Gatehouse/ Set UP
2:30-3:30 – Pooch Noggin
3:30- 4:00 – Lunch Provided (Subway)
4:00-5:00 – Unit Presentation Noggin/AMP

***IMPORTANT: PLEASE ARRIVE AT 1:30pm!! ***NO cellphones/cameras allowed.

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 neuroscience research on adolescent development, bias, trauma, drugs, and mental health regarding education, healthcare, criminal justice and the law.

We are VERY pumped to collaborate on this visit with the Artist Mentorship Program, an incredible nonprofit that for three decades has worked to empower young individuals, many without access to safe and secure housing, through music, mentorship and art. We’re also thrilled to reconnect with Project Pooch, an inspiring program that teaches dog training and rehabilitation to MacLaren youth! 

Learn more about NW Noggin at MacLaren at these links:

Listening at MacLaren

Brains Love Animals

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
(LIMITED OPPORTUNITY) (FULL)
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Will Kendall. Artist Mentorship Program
3. Janani Romero, PSU
4. Watson Kendall, Artist Mentorship Program
5. Sarah Vaillancourt, Artist Mentorship Program
6. Justin Thompson, Artist Mentorship Program
7. Cassidy Rickel, PSU
8. Jalen Marcil, PSU
9. Cody Walker, PSU
10. Joseph McKinney, PSU