Room to Grow: Journey to Cultural and Linguistic

           Competency Mini-Conference                                       

 Date:       Tuesday, December 2, 2014

 Time:       8:00AM-8:30 AM          Registration and Light Breakfast 

                  8:30AM to 11:45AM     Keynote Speakers (3 CEUs)

                  12:00 N to 1:00 PM      Lunch for Professional Staff and Faculty

                  1:00 PM to 2:00 PM      Interactive Lecture and Workshop (1 CEUs)

with Tawara Goode, MA 

 Location: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

                  615 N. Wolfe St., Feinstone Hall, 2^nd floor Room E2030

                  Baltimore, MD 21205

Admission Free of Charge following Registration

Registration Closes on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014

 Keynote Speakers

8:30 AM to 9:30 AM     Viewing Disability through a Lenses of Culture, Social Determinants,        

                                       and  Life Course

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD is a Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute.  Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. Dr. Jones received her BA (Molecular Biology) from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, and her Master of Public Health and PhD (Epidemiology) from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Jones' research broadens the national health debate to include not only universal access to high quality health care but also attention to the social determinants of health (including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism). 

9:30 AM to 10:30 AM Public health Leadership and Learning Undergraduate Student Success (PLLUSS) Program Scholars

• Patrick Smith:  “Pain, Depression, and ADL Limitation among Low-income, Functionally-Challenged

  Older Adults”

• Sarah Hill: "Differences in Obesity among Men of Diverse Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds"

• Deanna Loh:  “Investigating Associations between School Climate, Professional Burnout, and Staff Openness to Innovation”

10:45 AM to 11:45 AM:  Schools as Developmental Contexts:  Implications of Racial Inequity in

                                        Adolescents’ School Experiences

 

Jessika H. Bottiani, PhD, MPH completed her PhD in Mental Health in 2014 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her MPH in Maternal and Child Health in 2008.  Dr. Bottiani’s expertise is in the area of culturally responsive mental health promotion and healthy built and social environments in under-resourced communities. Her goal is to develop school, community, and health systems-based approaches to reduce disparities in health and mental health outcomes and support more equitable, integrative, and culturally sustaining organizational practices.

Noon to 1PM:            Lunch for Professional Staff and Faculty

 1PM to 2PM:             Interactive Lecture and Workshop:  Mentoring, Culture, and Leadership

  

Tawara Goode,MA is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.  She has been on the faculty of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) for 30 years.  Assistant Professor Goode has degrees in early childhood education and education and human development. She is the director of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at GUCCHD and Associate Director of the GUCCHD’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities where her work focuses on national level efforts to advance and sustain cultural and linguistic competence in this field.   

 Learning Objectives: After participation in this seminar, psychologists will be able to:  1) Identify social determinants that are associated with poor health outcomes and health disparities 2) Describe challenges along the life course that pose barriers to optimal health 3) Describe the role and culture and environment in access and engagement in health care for individuals with disability 4) Develop strategies to address challenges to health equity

 Level: Intermediate

Kennedy Krieger Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Kennedy Krieger Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 4 CE Credits will be granted to licensed psychologists. This seminar reflects program content and is intended to meet the Maryland license requirement to enhance competence in the provision of psychological services to culturally diverse populations.

 All registered attendees will receive email notification by 5 AM (EST) on December 2, 2014 in the event of changes or cancellation due to inclement weather. 

  

Conference Sponsor Maryland Center for Developmental Disabilities In Partnership with Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program, Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH), Population, Family and Reproductive Health Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Department of Pediatrics and the DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities, and Kennedy Krieger Institute

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