The Consortium invites you to Bridging the Gap: Health Justice and Exclusionary School Discipline on February 28, 2025. The conference will feature researchers, public health practitioners, clinicians, attorneys, and community advocates whose research agendas and practice examine exclusionary school discipline’s implications for health equity. A central goal for conference is to advance an interdisciplinary research and policy agenda to diminish disparate exposure to exclusionary school discipline and promote positive childhood health and wellbeing. RSVP here. For those who are only able to attend virtually, please complete the RSVP form for more details.

 

8:30 AM PST / 11:30 AM EST: Light breakfast available

 

9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST: Welcome

 

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM PST / 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM EST: Session 1

The Mechanisms and Harms of Exclusionary School Discipline: A Case Study of Philadelphia, PA

Panelists: Kathi R. Elliott, DNP, MSW, CRNP, Tawanna Jones, EdD, Ashley Sawyer, JD, Paige Joki, JD, and Daniela Brissett, MD

Moderator: Thalia González, JD; UC Law SF, Co-Director Center for Racial and Economic Justice; Senior Scholar, UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

 

Break

 

10:25 AM – 11:25 AM PST /1:25 PM – 2:25 PM EST: Session 2

The Health and Mental Health Harms of Exclusionary School Discipline

Panelists: Kathleen H. Krause, PhD, Charles Bell, PhD, Danielle McBride, MD, Thalia González, JD, and William Martinez, PhD

Moderator: Camila Cribb Fabersunne, MD, MPH, UCSF Medical Hospital, Department of Pediatrics

 

Break

 

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST / 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EST: Session 3

Current Health Justice Collaborations and Identifying New Interventions to Eliminate Exposure to Exclusionary School Discipline

Panelists: Tenaj Moody, Cesar De La Vega, JD, Crystal Grant, MSW, JD, and Eric Guthertz, MEd

Moderator: Camila Cribb Fabersunne, MD, MPH, UCSF; Medical Hospital, Department of Pediatrics

 

12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PST / 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST: Lunch (outside, weather permitting)

 

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PST / 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST: Working Roundtable and Closing

Facilitator: Thalia González, JD; UC Law SF, Co-Director Center for Racial and Economic Justice; Senior Scholar, UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

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Conference Speaker Information

Charles Bell, Ph.D.

Associate Professor – Department of Criminal Justice Studies

 

Daniela Brissett, MD

Faculty Scholar at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

 

Camila Cribb Fabersunne, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – University of California, San Francisco, Hospital Medicine

 

Cesar De La Vega, JD

Senior Policy Analyst at ChangeLab Solutions

 

Kathi Elliott, DNP, MSW, CRNP

Chief Executive Officer of Gwen’s Girls

 

Alexis Etow, JD

Managing Director at ChangeLab Solutions

 

Angela Gallegos Castillo, PhD

Community Builder at Instituto Familiar de la Raza, Inc, Roadmap to Peace

 

Thalia Gonzalez 

Professor of Law and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, Co-Director of the Center for Racial and Economic Justice, UC Law SF

 

Crystal Grant

Associate Clinical Professor of Law & Director of Children’s Law Clinic

 

Eric Guthertz

Assistant Superintendent of Student Family Services – San Francisco Unified School District

 

Paige Joki

Staff Attorney at the Education Law Center

 

Tawanna Jones Morrison

Associate Director of Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program, Elementary and Middle Years Cohort at Penn Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

 

Kathleen H. Krause, Ph.D. MSc

Acting Team Lead and Epidemiologist in the Scientific Support and Innovation team at the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health

 

William Martinez, PhD

Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry – UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

 

Dannielle McBride, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics – School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

 

Tenaj Moody, MS, LBS

Director of Capacity Building & Learning – National Black Women’s Justice Institute

 

Meghan Morris, MD

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics – School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

 

Ashley Sawyer

Senior Staff Attorney, Opportunity to Learn