[Prevscilist] "Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Services for Neurodiverse Children and their Families" | Ballmer Colloquium today at 10 am by Dr. Olivia Lindly

[Atika Khurana]

Good morning all,

A friendly reminder of colloquium today (11/27) at 10 am by Dr. Olivia 
Lindly. See details below.

On 11/17/23 10:28 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. 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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