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Jun
29
2017

The State of LGBTQ Youth Health and Wellbeing: Strengthening Schools and Families to Build Resilience

When: Thursday, June 29, 2017
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM CT

Where: Arthur Rubloff Building, Aspen Hall, 375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Beth Ann Hamilton   (312) 503-0049

Group: Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)

Category: Academic

Description:

ISGMH is excited to invite you to our second Annual Symposium entitled “The State of LGBTQ Youth Health and Wellbeing: Strengthening Schools and Families to Build Resilience.” Organized by ISGMH, the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology, and Advocates for Youth, the symposium will be held on June 29th from 2:00-4:30 with a reception to follow. Please RSVP on our website by clicking "More Info" above!  

Keynote Speaker: Dr. David Purcell, JD, Ph.D., Deputy Director for Behavioral and Social Science, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Panel Presenters:

Dr. Guillermo (Willy) Prado, Leonard M. Miller Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Division of Prevention Science and Community Health at the Miller School of Medicine, and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Miami

Dr. Dorothy Espelage, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Florida.

Dr. Brian Mustanski, Ph.D., Director of Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, Professor of Medical Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

Youth leaders from the Illinois Coalition for Adolescent Health

Remarks:

Dr. Karen Parker, Ph.D., M.S.W., Director of the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office, National Institutes of Health

Debra Hauser, President, Advocates for Youth

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