Upcoming events.
EMPOWERED PATHWAYS (Summit): Advancing Equity and Self-Determination for Neurodivergent Learners and Career Seekers
This one-day summit will center the voices and experiences of neurodivergent individuals while providing practical resources for neurodivergent individuals, their caregivers and service providers. Through inspiring lightning talks, collaborative workshops, and interactive sessions, attendees will explore strategies for self-determination, advocacy, and success in education and employment. The summit will emphasize partnership and community building to create sustainable pathways for equity and opportunity.
EMPOWERED PATHWAYS (Symposium): Advancing Equity and Self-Determination for Neurodivergent Learners and Career Seekers
Professional Development Symposium Goals
Deepen Understanding: Enhance participants’ knowledge of neurodivergence and the intersectional barriers impacting equity in education and employment. Discuss how movements such as Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and Chicana/Latinx futurism can advance culturally-responsive approaches that embed traditional cultural knowledge and culture with futuristic ideas, spaces, and places.
Promote Inclusion: Equip attendees with evidence-based strategies and tools to create inclusive environments that support neurodivergent individuals’ self-determination, success, and intersectional understanding.
Build Partnerships: Foster collaboration among educators, service providers, and community organizations to align efforts in addressing systemic inequities.
Develop Action Plans: Support participants in designing tailored culturally-responsive equity and self-determination action plans to implement within their schools, organizations, or communities.
Drive Systems Change: Inspire attendees to advocate for and implement policy and practice reforms to improve outcomes for neurodivergent learners and career seekers.