WHAT: Noggin visit to MacClaren Youth Correctional Facility

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

WHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024, 2:30 – 5:00pm; PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY ~ 2:00-2:15pm

Contact: Vanessa Bucio Chavez, Project Coordinator, HOPE Partnership

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

“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.

2:30pm: Tom Nelson Conference Room, Maclaren Youth Correctional Facility
Granite: 3:00- 3:45pm
Boulder: 4:00 – 5:00pm

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. Alyssa Showalter, PSU
6. Alexandria Bills, PSU
7. Elizabeth DeGraw, PSU
8. Emilee Brnusak, PSU
9. Pearl Ton, PSU
10. Kadi Rae Smith, PSU
11. Cece Austin, PSU
12. Isabel Fleischman, PSU
13. Xander Hawkins, PSU
14. Becky Callos, PSU