[Prevscilist] "Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Services for Neurodiverse Children and their Families" | Ballmer Colloquium by Dr. Olivia Lindly

[Atika Khurana]

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.

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Date & time: *Mon. 11/27 @ 10am-11:30am (PST)*

Zoom link: 
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/93482682027?pwd=bVlkdUUrRHJLVFBOQUNSSzNFY3Rtdz09

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*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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