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We are 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, Advocates for Youth, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the symposium will be held on June 29th from 2:00-4:30 with a reception to follow. This event is supported by the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance.
This event will be live streamed. If you wish to attend this event remotely, please visit https://bluejeans.com/579239263
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 the 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 Caucus 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
