coe-staff: "Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Services for Neurodiverse Children and their Families" | Ballmer Colloquium by Dr. Olivia Lindly

[Lisa Fortin]

The Ballmer Institute for Children’s Behavioral Health and College of Education invite you to attend the colloquium by open-rank tenure track faculty candidate, Dr. Olivia Lindly
Date & time: Mon. 11/27 @ 10am-11:30am (PST)
Zoom link: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/93482682027?pwd=bVlkdUUrRHJLVFBOQUNSSzNFY3Rtdz09
Colloquium title: Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Services for Neurodiverse Children and their Families
Colloquium Abstract: Autism affects a significant and increasing segment of the child population in the United States: 1 in 36 children is estimated to have autism. Autism is a lifelong and often complex condition that is commonly characterized by issues with social communication and restricted or repetitive behaviors. Autism frequently necessitates the use of behavioral and other services to help optimize health for children and their families; however, many challenges exist to accessing quality services. Relatedly, parents of autistic children may experience elevated stress and financial strain. This presentation will highlight a secondary analysis study using caregiver strain data collected from U.S. and Canadian parents of autistic children enrolled in the Autism Treatment Network Registry Call Back Study. Study findings point to the importance of parent-mediated autism interventions shown to improve child adaptive functioning and quality of life, as well as caregiver strain. Still, many parent-mediated autism interventions have not been culturally tailored for Indigenous children and their families, a historically underserved population. This presentation, therefore, will also highlight recent findings from the Parents Taking Action for Diné (Navajo) Children with Autism study, which has adapted and piloted an evidence-based parent education and training program over the past four years using community-engaged research methods. Implications and future directions of this work for advancing equity in behavioral health services in historically underserved populations will be discussed.
Candidate Bio: Since her early professional experiences delivering behavioral health services to young children in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Olivia Lindly has been passionate about advancing equity in behavioral health services for neurodiverse children and their families. She is an Assistant Professor in Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University, and she also holds a research appointment with the Oregon Center for Children and Youth with Special Needs at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Her academic background is oriented in psychology and public health with additional intensive pediatric health services research training through the predoctoral fellowship program at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the postdoctoral Harvard-wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship program. Dr. Lindly is a Principal Investigator on the recently funded National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01 study: Addressing Structural Disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorder through Analysis of Secondary Data (ASD3). She also leads an Organization for Autism Research applied research competition grant to adapt and pilot an evidence-based parent education and training program (Parents Taking Action) for Diné (Navajo) parents of autistic children. Dr. Lindly has published her work in peer-reviewed journals such as Pediatrics, Health Services Research, Autism, and the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. In 2021, she received the Academy Health Nemours Child Health Services Research award for promising early-stage investigators. Dr. Lindly primarily teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level public and interdisciplinary health courses, and she enjoys mentoring students in their many professional endeavors.
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