ALT Our teammate Mallory Cyr was recognized as a de Beaumont 40 Under 40 in Public Health Honoree! Mallory wears a beige shirt with dark-colored blazer as she smiles at the camera.
ALT Graphic alerting of 2023 recruitment for Youth Voice Amplified. Our dynamic youth-led committee within the Association is seeking passionate youth and young adults committed to driving community/state level change, leadership development, and advocacy in state public health. Our purpose is rooted in the Jemez principles of democratic organizing, ensuring "nothing about us without us." Apply today at www.bit.ly/2023_YVA.
ALT Graphic promoting AMCHP's Youth Voice Amplified, highlighting the following: Join young people from all over the country, with different experiences, skills, and ideas to offer (including BIPOC, male, persons with disabilities, and LBGTQIA+). You will be compensated (paid in some way) for your time and contributions. Your participation will be supported by AMCHP staff and other professionals.
ALT Recruiting Participants for a Research Study Who is this study for? Autistic young adults who Are 18-29 years old and out of high school Can answer questions and communicate about their experiences with leaving high school and becoming an adult Are their own legal guardian We are very interested in participants who are Black, Brown or other people of color, LGBTQIA+, non-speaking, and female identified Parents or caregivers of autistic young adults (who are ages 18-29 years who have left high school) Providers or agency staff who serve autistic young adults and assist them through transition. why are we doing this study The purpose of this study is to listen to people’s experiences with the transition to adulthood and to gather ideas about priorities for research about the transition to adulthood for autistic youth if interested email [email protected]
ALT AMCHP is looking for submissions to their celebrating autistic joy opportunity. The rainbow colored infinity sign represents neurodiversity. The AMCHP and SPHARC logos show that they are sponsoring the opportunity.
ALT A young woman with pigtails wears a purple dress and fairy-like wings that are made out of rainbow color puzzle pieces. She sits next to a blue zebra with rainbow color strips. Above them it says "Soar to new heights! Being uniquely you is enough!"
ALT A lion's head is drawn on top of yellow, orange, red, and brown puzzle pieces. Above it reads "Someone needs to hear your journey. Roar to give them the strength to rise!"
ALT The word "AUTISTIC" is listed vertically with each letter in a different shaped puzzle piece as an acrostic. Each letter in "AUTISTIC" is the first letter in a list of lines that make new words. Authentic Unique Talented Inspiring Spectacular Tailor-made Irreplaceable Creative Below it reads "Remember you are a one-of-a-kind MASTERPIECE"
ALT A poem called Autistic Joy by Hari Srinivasan Be Supported to Joy Be supported to joy, is what we need Empowerment & Solutions, the seed. For happiness, our hearts will plead. True want in life, to live in joy. Can we autistics wake up to Joy… …every single day of our lives? Unconventional Intelligence An spectrum computer, to be exact Like lines of code, flawlessly extract Atypical network, unique way of thought Algorithms and patterns, precision wrought All in the Course of Human Events…. All in the course of Human Events Open your eyes… look within… see the possibilities The result…. a better human(e) society
ALT Lydia X.Z. Brown stands on the stage as they present a keynote address at the 2023 Autism CARES Meeting. They are a young East Asian person wearing a light blue suit, checkered shirt, and blue tie.
ALT Paige Falion, Project Director of the State Public Health Autism Resource Center (SPHARC), stands at the podium at the 2023 Autism CARES meeting. There is a slide shown to the audience that says "What is SPHARC" and includes a QR code to the SPHARC website and screenshots of the 4 core areas of SPHARC's work from their website.
ALT Paige Falion, Project Director of the State Public Health Autism Resource Center (SPHARC), stands at the podium at the 2023 Autism CARES meeting. There is a slide talking about SPHARC's Autistic Faculty including a recent MCH Bridges Podcast Episode called "The Joy of Autism: A New Way of Thinking"
ALT Paige Falion, Project Director of the State Public Health Autism Resource Center (SPHARC), stands at the podium at the 2023 Autism CARES meeting. There is a slide shown to the audience that talks about the celebrating Autistic joy opportunity (more information available on the SPHARC website).
ALT Dr. Alice Kuo is wearing a gold sweater and blue dress and she stands at the podium while she presents. Six other panelists sit at a long table next to two moderators for the panel.
ALT Amy is a white woman with shoulder-length blond hair. She stands at a podium as she presents a concurrent session at the 2023 Autism CARES Meeting.
ALT This slide from Amy's presentation shows four blue bar graphs from evaluations of trainings for providers who screen children for autism. The trainings increased the providers' knowledge of autism by 54.65%, increased awareness of indicators of autism by 59.3%, changed how they discuss autism with caregiver by 67.4%, and increased providers' ability to provide autism-specific recommendations to caregivers by 70.3%.
ALT AMCHP's CEO Terrance Moore stands at the podium at the Autism CARES Meeting as he welcomes attendees to the meeting.
ALT AMCHP's Associate Director of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and Director of AMCHP's State Public Health Autism Resource Center Paige Falion stands at the podium as she welcomes attendees to the 2023 Autism CARES Meeting.
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