Current events: 

Due to the coronavirus, we are not currently scheduling in-person community events, but we are working with local partners to create virtual opportunities. Check this space for new in-person events in 2021! Meanwhile, we are planning to link online to the international celebration of neurodiversity in March 2021 (see flyer above). Check back for details!!

Community & professional engagement:

• November, 2020, Virtual community presentation by Vermont Afterschool on creating a culture of youth voice, sponsored by YAC Steering Committee. Future presentations on this subject are planned.
• July, 2020, First Youth Advisory Council meeting! Now virtual meetings weekly. The YAC is still small, but mighty in potential! New outreach effort specifically to virtual learners and homeschoolers made in September.
• May, 2020, Initial YAC Outreach from Steering Committee to area schools; the first youth-leadership group is currently forming. Outreach materials: YAC introduction (PDF); YAC YouTube video; YAC Instagram link (@yacisback2.0)
• January, 2020, Caledonia & So. Essex Counties Youth Advisory Council (YAC) Steering Committee formed. A seven-organization local coalition behind a community-based youth leadership initiative.
• May, 2019, "Can People Living with Autism Save our Planet?" A conversation with the Greater Greensboro community.
• April, 2019: Neurodiversity & Mental Health Conversation. A presentation for professionals about neurodiversity in the context of mental health from a panel of college students from Landmark College in Putney, Vermont.
• February-April 2019: Neurodiversity Film Series, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury. Series of six public screenings, with conversations.
• October, 2018, Dislecksia: The Movie. Public screening, Sterling College, Craftsbury, VT. Partnership w/ WonderArts.
• September, 2018, Life, Animated. Public screening, Heartbeet Lifesharing, Hardwick, VT. Partnership w/ WonderArts.
• August, 2018, Autism in Love. Public screening, Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, VT. Partnership w/ WonderArts.
• June, 2018:  "Neurodiversity in Mentoring" A workshop for mentoring professionals, Vermont Mentoring Symposium, Waterbury, VT. Co-presenter Corey Richardson.

Current newsletter:

• End of Summer 2020

Previous news:

• Giving Tuesday (12/1/20) Exchange
  
• Late Spring 2020
• From the Trees (for the pandemic), Earth Day, 2020
• Autumn 2019
• Mid-Summer 2019
• Spring 2019
• Winter 2018-19
• Autumn 2018
• June 2018
• March 2018
• ​November 2017
• May 2017
• January 2017

VLSI in the news: 

• "Anxiety and school" (VTDigger, 11/14/19) 
• "The case for neurodiversity" (VTDigger, 4/13/18)
• "Bradford Smith named executive director of VLSI" (Vermont Business Magazine, 3/12/18)

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