[Prevscilist] Reminder, today at 10 am: “Nurturing Minds and Spirits: The Role of Cultural Resilience for Indigenous Child Behavioral and Cognitive Health” | Ballmer Colloquium by Dr. Alexis Merculief

[Atika Khurana]

Dear all,

A friendly reminder of colloquium today at 10 am.

On 12/1/23 8:10 AM, Atika Khurana wrote:
>
> 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. Alexis Merculief
>
> Date & time: *Tues. 12/12 @ 10am-11:30am (PST)*
>
> Zoom link: 
> https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92309864521?pwd=Zy9TclFEOVh1M1ZOTFYzdm5PV2x2Zz09
>
> *Colloquium Title*: Nurturing Minds and Spirits: The Role of Cultural 
> Resilience for Indigenous Child Behavioral and Cognitive Health
>
> *Colloquium Abstract:* Children from American Indian/Alaska Native 
> (AI/AN) and other underserved backgrounds are raised in environments 
> rich with supportive community relationships and cultural connections. 
> At the same time, historical trauma and resulting poverty have brought 
> systemic barriers to healthy development, including risks in the built 
> and social environment. These risks present persistent stressors that 
> negatively impact child behavioral and cognitive health. However, 
> individuals, families, communities, and cultures bring their own 
> sources of resilience. One well known individual resilience factor, 
> and predictor of mental, physical, and socioemotional health, is 
> strong self-regulation. Yet, little is known about how features of 
> cultural resilience develop alongside and even support emerging 
> self-regulation and executive function skills in preschool. With a 
> focus on Indigenous theory, Alexis will unpack reconceptualizations of 
> environmental risk, resilience, and self-regulation and how these can 
> move the field forward with the goal of supporting Indigenous child 
> behavioral health. Alexis will also share novel findings from her 
> current work that demonstrate cultural and language socialization 
> practices by parents as promoters and protectors of child cognitive 
> health.
>
> **
>
> *Candidate Bio:*Alexis Merculief is a developmental scientist 
> interested in how features of the built and social environment 
> influence early childhood behavioral and cognitive health 
> (specifically, executive function); as well as how aspects of 
> community and cultural resilience can promote long-term health and 
> academic achievement for children from American Indian, Alaska Native, 
> and other underserved populations. Alexis received her Ph.D. in Human 
> Development and Family Studies from Oregon State University in June of 
> 2023, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Equity in Early 
> Education (E3) postdoctoral fellowship program at Stanford University. 
> Alexis is an Aleut (Unangax) tribal member and previously worked to 
> promote education, health, and cultural connection in American 
> Indian/Alaska Native children through youth program development at an 
> Urban AI/AN health organization in Seattle. 
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