12:30 pm - 1:15 pm: Lunch
Grand Ballroom
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm: Plenary: "Moving a Social Justice Research Agenda When Speaking the Truth is Not Enough"
Grand Ballroom
Speaker: Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm: Performance: "Moving Towards Rehabilitation and Healing: Arts in Prison"
Grand Ballroom
Performer: Judy Dworin, Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc.
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: BREAKOUT SESSION III (concurrent)
3.A. Autism Advocacy: A Long Way from Science to Practice
Connecticut Salon A
Panelists from diverse backgrounds (i.e. researchers, educators, advocates and parents) will discuss structural barriers to the early identification of autism; challenges in implementing science based interventions and advocating for appropriate services; and the potential for community based collaborative research to advance evidence based approaches.
Chair: JiangHong Li, ICR, Hartford, CT
Suzanne Letso, Connecticut Center for Child Development, Inc., Milford, CT
Thyde Dumont Mathiu, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT
Christina Foreman, Hope Speech and Language Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
3.B. Innovative Methods to Create Communities for Action
Connecticut Salon B
This panel discusses the use of art, storytelling, research and blogging to disseminate information, open dialogue and create communities to address environmental and social justice concerns.
Chair: Lynne Williamson, ICR, Hartford, CT
Laura Orleans, Working Waterfront Festival, New Bedford, MA
Clinton Nichols III, The Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, The Field School, Chicago, IL
3.C. Using Research to Support Advocacy and Policy Change
Connecticut Salon C
This panel will discuss research on policies that affect people living with or at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS and strategies to advocate for policy change.
Chair: Shawn Lang, CT AIDS Resource Coalition, Hartford, CT
Leif Mitchell, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT
Julia Dickson-Gomez, Mark Convey, Helena Hilario, ICR, Hartford, CT
Jerimarie Liesegang, CT TransAdvocacy Coalition, Hartford, CT
Marlene Schwartz, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Priscilla Canny, Connecticut Voices for Children, New Haven, CT
3.D. Perspectives and Experiences Translating CDC HIV Prevention Evidence-Based Interventions
Ethan Allen
This session will describe the history, context, and activities of the CDC’s diffusion project (DEBI) as well as perspectives and experiences of community agencies replicating an effective intervention.
Chair: Ann O’Connell, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Charles Collins, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
Barry Callis, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA
Katherine Fowler, Windham Regional Community Council, Willimantic, CT
Marie Agramonte-Gomez, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT
Melissa A. Davey-Rothwell, Karin E. Tobin, Carl A. Latkin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
3.E. Environmental Justice: Race, Place and Health
Silas Deane
This panel will discuss community based collaborative research to discover and address environmental causes of health disparities.
Chair: Edith Pestana, CT Department of Environmental Protection/Environmental Justice Program, Hartford, CT
John Stewart, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Mark Mitchell, Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ), Hartford, CT
Elizabeth Hayes, The Newhall Coalition, Inc. Hamden, CT
Tom Maziarz, Capital Region Council of Government, Hartford, CT
3.F. Living Histories: Incorporating Art, Ethnography and Reminiscence to Tell our Stories
Nathan Hale North
This session will present innovative programs that incorporate art, ethnography and reminiscence in a variety of community settings and involving multiple generations in the gathering, preserving and sharing of the histories of our community elders.
Chair: Kim Radda, ICR, Hartford, CT
Juliette Shellman, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
Alisha Winn, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Frank Mitchell (Discussant), Westside Works
Paloma McGregor, Urban Bush Women, Brooklyn, CT
3.G. A Revolution Conceived in the Most Unlikely of Places: A Community-Based Action Research Journal
Nathan Hale South
This round table discussion will discuss the challenges and synergies in the conception of a community based research journal that enlists community leaders and activists as research designers and editors in order to assure the relevance of research and create a dialogue between researchers and community representatives.
Chair: Doug Smith, Project Peacemaker, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Diana Julia Nastasia, School of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
Monique A. Myers, Human Communications, Stonehill College, Easton, MA
3.H. Challenges Conducting Research to Benefit Those Moving Through Correctional Facilities
Mark Twain
This session will explore the intersection of prisoner and community health, present data from recent studies on prisoners, and discuss challenges and strategies for engaging in research with this population.
Chair: Frederick L. Altice, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Anne Spaulding, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, GA
David Wohl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
3.I. Artist/Researcher Collaborations and Negotiations
Grand Ballroom West
This roundtable discussion will explore some of the challenges of integrating artists’ creative processes with the requirements of scientific research.
Chair: Colleen Coleman, ICR, Hartford, CT
Rey Bermudez and ICR Xperience Project Artist, ICR, Hartford, CT
Deborah Simmons, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
Orlando Velazco, ICR, Hartford, CT
Jean J. Schensul, ICR, Hartford, CT
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Film Screening
PT Barnum
Featuring:
A Chinatown Banquet, Mike Blockstein and the Asian Community Development Corporation. This film offers a glimpse into the history, culture, and character of Boston's Chinatown.
Madres Unidas: Parents Researching for Change, Andrea Dyrness, Trinity College.
This film tells two stories: one story of the parent researchers in Madres Unidas and the story of the new small school they helped found.
FIX: Story of an Addicted City, Ann Livingston, VANDU, Vancouver, BC.
This film tells the story of community activism and the struggle for an injection site in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Poster/Exhibitor Viewing and Reception
2nd and 3rd Floors
Complete list of poster presentations.
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm: BREAKOUT SESSION IV (concurrent)
4.A. Microbicides: Revolutionizing HIV Prevention
Connecticut Salon A
This session provides a brief introduction to microbicides - what they are, how they work, and why we need them. A short film will be shown followed by discussion. Come learn about this new tool for HIV prevention.
Facilitator: Clair Kaplan, Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT
4.B. New Directions in Health
Connecticut Salon B
This panel will present examples of community based collaborative research to improve health and health care.
Chair: Lucy Brakoniecki and Maria Caez, Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund, Hartford, CT
Susan J. Shaw, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Christine Cronk and Kate Costella, Medical College of Wisconsin, National Children's Study, National Institute of Child Mental Health and Human Development, Milwaukee, WI
Kate Ksobiech, Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
4.C. Who Do You Think You Are and What (in the World) Are You Doing?
Connecticut Salon C
Workshop participants will receive an experiential/didactic introduction to Ken Wilber’s AQAL (all quadrants, levels, lines, states and types) framework to assess themselves, their disciplines and models; apply the AQAL framework to a topic of their choosing; and leave with enhanced self-awareness, an invaluable interdisciplinary tool, and resources for further engagement.
Facilitator: Reggie Marra, Integral Journeys for Pilgrims, Poets, Fools and Saints, New Milford, CT
4.D. Up and Out of Poverty: An Activist Perspective
Ethan Allen
This session will feature a documentary film to explore the paradox of poverty and homelessness in the U.S. through the eyes and life of social activist Ron Casanova. Following the showing, the filmmaker, Jaime Gomez, and Ron Casanova will lead a discussion about the film and its implications.
Facilitators: Ronald Casanova, Artists for A Better America, Brooklyn, NY
Jaime Gomez, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
4.E. Popular Culture and the Media in Community Activism
Silas Deane
The media and popular culture play a significant role in shaping how we view the world around us. How can we effect change on it and what is the relationship to social justice issues having to do with race, class and gender? How has commercialization impacted hip-hop's potential as a social justice movement? Is the internet helping to maintain social movements worldwide? These questions will be explored from a historical and global perspective.
Chair: Damion Sincere Morgan, ICR, Hartford, CT
Andrew Marcum, University of New Mexico Research Service Learning Program, Albuquerque, NM
Joey Krebs, Graffiti Artist, Los Angeles, CA
4.F. Community- Based Collaborative Research for Youth with Disabilities
Nathan Hale North
This panel will explore various approaches to improving the lives of youth with disabilities through combined efforts of community-based researchers, service providers, youth with disabilities, parents and advocates.
Chair: Ellen Cromley, ICR, Hartford, CT
Maria Milazzo, State University of New York, Department of Neurology, Stonybrook, NY
Wade Gibbs, University of Connecticut Center for Students with Disabilities, Storrs, CT
4.G. Effective Community Strategic Planning through Participatory Research
Nathan Hale South
In this skills building workshop, participants will: be introduced to the ASPIRE database designed to store and manage community, economic, social and resource data; utilize a participatory research approach to conduct a data-driven needs assessment; develop a community strategic plan focused on addressing cultural disparities; and enhance understanding of community-research-policy collaboration.
Chair: Summer Wright, OMNI Institute, Denver, CO
Carole Broderick, OMNI Institute, Denver, CO
Jared Anthony, SAMHSA Fellow, Denver, CO
Jose Esquibel, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO
4.H. Culture, Tourism and Development on China's Lugu Lake
Mark Twain
80 meters explores the environmental, economic and social impact of the tourist industry in Lige, a small village on Lugo Lake in Yunnan province in China. A facilitated discussion will follow the film viewing.
Facilitator: Jennifer Dunn, ICR, Hartford, CT
4.I. Strengthening Communities through Youth Arts-Based Programs
Grand Ballroom West
This panel explores interventions and dissemination projects that have utilized young people’s artistic expression as a means of communicating youth perspectives, empowering youth, and strengthening communities.
Chair: Sarah Diamond and Maritza Lopez, ICR, Hartford, CT
Lisa Rathje, Institute for Cultural Partnerships, Harrisburg, PA
Irene Shaikly and Yvonne Mendez, New World Theatre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Laura McCargar and Youth, Youth Rights Media, New Haven, CT
9pm – 11:00pm: Open Mic
Grand Ballroom West |
