The Adler School’s Tiffany McDowell, Ph.D., M.F.T., Program Manager and Research Associate for the Institute on Social Exclusion, traveled to London this month for the opening conference of the 2012 University College London’s (UCL) Health and Society Summer School on the Social Determinants of Health. She attended the program in advance of the ISE’s own … Continue reading »
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New EEOC guidance on arrest records and hiring decisions: Working with communities on their rights to accessing jobs
After more than 20 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this spring revised its policy guidance on employers’ use of arrest records in making hiring decisions. The announcement received a great deal of media attention. In communities like Chicago’s underserved Englewood community, a significant number of residents are arrested in police sweeps but … Continue reading »
Examining sexuality, identity, culture, and race: The 2012 Multifacted Themes of Diversity Conference
Do social movements need icons? How do race, class, gender, and sexuality dictate who becomes an icon, who is a foot-soldier, and who makes movement really function? Guest speaker Dr. Kimberly Springer addressed these timely questions and issues related to the use of fame and celebrity in movements toward social change, at the annual Multifacted Themes of Diversity Conference … Continue reading »
Arrests, Hiring, and Community Impact: The EEOC’s Updated Enforcement Guidance
For more than a year, the Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) has focused its pioneering Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) on a proposal of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to amend its Policy Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest Records in Employment Decisions. Through its MHIA work, the ISE team has been examining the impact on … Continue reading »
Mark your calendar for discussion on ‘Religion: The Black LGBTQ Experience’
On May 21, the Adler School’s LGBTQ Mental Health and Inclusion Center and Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) will present “Religion: The Black LGBTQ Experience.” Join us for discussion on internal and external conflicts for African-American sexual minorities that are created when religious and sexual orientation identities do not reconcile with each other. Learn about … Continue reading »
Mark your calendar: ISE hosts ‘The Holocaust and the Marginalization of Collective Memories’ on May 9
The Nazi regime banned abortion, attempted to cure homosexuality, and sterilized almost all Germans of part-African descent. Our mainstream narratives of the Holocaust usually exclude those histories. Yet some of the same groups targeted under Nazism — including people with mental disabilities, women, people of African or Roma descent, gay and lesbian people — continue to suffer … Continue reading »
Institute on Social Exclusion: Upcoming events on mental health impact, urban mental health and more
The Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) has a busy series of events and presentations coming up, beginning this week with Executive Director Lynn Todman’s panel presentation at the first-ever National Health Impact Assessment Meeting in Washington D.C. Here is the schedule: April 3-4: Inaugural National Health Impact Assessment Meeting, Washington, D.C. Lynn Todman, Ph.D., Executive Director … Continue reading »
Conference announcement: ‘The Social Determinants of Urban Mental Health: Paving the Way Forward,” Sept. 19-20
Today, more than half of all global humanity lives in urban areas. That figure is projected to grow to more than 60 percent by 2050. Although cities possess conditions that promote good mental health, they also possess conditions — poverty, conflict, and social isolation — that are harmful to mental health. In fact, research shows that city … Continue reading »
Institute on Social Exclusion: Upcoming national lectures, innovation talks & more
Mark your calendar: Our nationally recognized leadership and faculty with the Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) will be speaking at these upcoming conferences and programs: “Social Exclusion: The Marginalization of African Americans in Health Care, Housing, and Employment” Symposium Keynote Address The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) Saturday, Feb. 18, Chicago … Continue reading »
Nationally recognized ‘Theater of War’ in Chicago: Adler School panelist & veteran discusses the macro mental health issues
While the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) did not become widely known until after World War I, when it was known as shell shock, it’s in fact been recognized since the time of Sophocles in Ancient Greece. Sophocles was a Greek military general as well as a playwright, in an age when war was … Continue reading »
A reflection on conversation on hierarchies of identity, coming out, racism, and colorism
In today’s post, guest blogger Katrina Sanford, MA, a doctoral student here at the Adler School, reflects on an event hosted last term by the School’s Institute on Social Exclusion. The panel discussion “A Conversation: Hierarchies of Identity, Coming Out, Racism and Colorism” was the first in a series of events intended to reframe mainstream LGBTQ discourse on salient … Continue reading »
Update: WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified to air roundtable on planning & health outcomes feauturing ISE executive director
Updating our Nov. 11 post on the upcoming Improving Health Through Planning presentation: This significant discussion will be featured on WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified, which distributes public programming on important events throughout Chicago available via the web. Tune in after Dec. 7 for the inside listen of panelists discussing the role of health outcomes in early planning decisions. Among the … Continue reading »
2011 IPA update: Adler School ISE team wins poster section award
The Adler School community congratulates Adriana Brodyn and the rest of the Insitite on Social Exclusion (ISE) team on receiving the Academic Section Award for their poster presentation at the Illinois Psychology Association 2011 Annual Convention! Click here to read more about the convention and the poster presentation. The poster is now on display in the ISE offices at the … Continue reading »
Employers’ use of arrest records & mental health impact: On the agenda at next week’s CARRE Conference
Employers commonly use arrest records as a basis of hiring decisions. What is the mental health impact of that practice? This Monday (October 24), Dr. Lynn Todman, Executive Director of the Adler School Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE), will explain it on a panel for the 10th Annual CARRE Policy Conference: “New Directions in Advocacy,” hosted by … Continue reading »
A Conversation: Hierachies of Identity, Coming Out, Racism and Colorism
On Oct. 19, the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School will host “A Conversation: Hierarchies of Identity, Coming Out, Racism and Colorism,” the first in a series of events intended to reframe mainstream LGBTQ discourse on salient issues that confront QPOC (queer people of color). Historically, critical issues in QPOC communities are all but overlooked … Continue reading »
