Kessler-Freedheim Lecture Series
Integrating Early Care, Education, and Poverty Reduction: A Three-Pronged Approach to Supporting Child Development at Scale Featured Speaker: Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Courtney Sale Ross, University Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt.
April 25, 2023, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Fall Events
Community Health Research & Practice Seminar || Youth Risk Behavior Survey Featured Speaker: Jean Frank, Director of Adolescent Surveillance and Evaluation at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, and Dr. Hollinshead, MD, Bicultural Research Resident at Brown University
October 18, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
An International Discussion on Advancing the Rights of Children, Featured Panelists: Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People's Commission of Scotland, Brian Gran, Professor of Sociology, Law and Applied Social Sciences, CWRU, Karl Hanson - Professor of Law and Director of the University of Geneva, Centre for Children's Rights Studies, Ursula Kilkelly - Professor of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, Emily Logan - Commissioner, Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, Ágnes Lux - Research Fellow, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungary
November 16, 2022 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Lead Poisoning - A Health Problem with a Housing Solution: Forging a Collective Commitment for a Lead-Safe City || Co-Spnosored by the Health Advocacy Leadership Organization of the School of Medicine Featured Panelists: Ayonna Donald - Executive Director of Enterprise Housing; Kim Foreman - CEO of Environmental Health Watch; Roopa Thakur, MD - CLE Clinic Community Pediatrics and an advisor with Ohio AAP Lead Project; Matthew Tien, MD MetroHealth Pediatrics Co-Chair MetroHealth Lead Colation
November 14, 2022, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Building a Youth Crisis Care Response Featured Panelists: Erin DiVincenzo, ADAMHS Board Director of Prevention and Children's Behavioral Health Programs; Chava Harris, Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) Director, Bellefaire; Sgt. Magdaelena Crespo, Cleveland Division of Police; Kourtney Morgan, Young Adult Advocate
November 2, 2022, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Spring Events
Pediatric Grand Rounds || Promoting Health & Wellness through Collaborative Research-Practice Partnerships with Children & Youth Featured Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Benninger, CEO of Healthy Minds Healthy Communities Consulting LLC, Postdoctoral Fellow at CSU
January 26, 2023 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Community Health Research & Practice Seminar || Questions of faith: suicidality among adolescents & young adults Featured Speaker: Dr. Susan De Luca MSW, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychiatry and faculty at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities
February 7, 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Feature Speaker: Dr. Lisa Damour - Advisor to the Schubert Center for Child Studies, Author of numerous academic papers
April 3, 2023, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Community Partners for:
City Club of Cleveland || The Faults in Our System: Transforming Juvenile Justice Panelists: Piet van Lier, Senior Researcher, Policy Matters Ohio; Brooke Burns, Managing Counsel, Youth Defense Department, Office of the Ohio Public Defender; Stephanie D Howse, Ward 7 Councilwoman, Cleveland City Council; and Leah Winsberg, Staff Attorney, Children's Law Center, Inc.
Augusts 26th, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
City Club of Cleveland || The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Featured Speaker: Dr. Kristin Henning, Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law
November 18, 2023 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM