Disability Caucus Meeting Date: 9/9/24 Present: Jackson Morris, Raven McCoy, Ally Grimes
Agenda:
- Committee structure and leadership
- Student organizations and other partners to engage with as a caucus (ADA, DiSCO, DAPI, JHU4RARE, etc.);
- Social media/student recruitment
- What does the disability caucus entail?
Minutes:
- Committee structure and leadership
- Potential for molding structure to include liaison (DiSCO+ADA), social media coordinator, co-chair, etc as needed
- Making sure we stay involved in collaborating with other student groups
- DiSCO
- Diabetes Link (Ally can help coordinate correspondence with them)
- JHU4Rare
- Active Minds (mental health/suicide prevention oriented)
- Equal Access in Medicine (did Disability Pride Month events in June 2022)
- DSAGA (Raven is co-president)
- Heart and Stroke Awareness at Hopkins
- Volunteers for Medical Engineering
- Best Buddies at JHU
- Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program
- Morgan’s Message at Johns Hopkins
- Multicultural Leadership Council (potential leadership from disability caucus)
- Hop-on Harm Reduction
- oSTEM
- Poetry as Medicine
- Special Olympics
- Students for Health Humanities
- The Crisis Text Line Club
- Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
- Staff/Admin departments
- CDI
- ODI - Nathan Stenberg
- SDS - Cathie Axe
- Disability Research Center (SON) - Dr. Bonnie Swenor
- Student Outreach and Support - Christine Choi
- Counseling Center
- Melissa Smith: Associate Director of Assessment
- JHU Well Being
- Social Media outreach - Clare Lochary (clochar1@jhu.edu)
- Last year, had #hopkinsmoves, want to talk a specific student about their experience being disabled on campus.
- Put together list of disability work related orgs across Hopkins & Homewood to shared with DIAC to JMed, Nursing, Digital Accessibility branch, etc to have a comprehensive university wide list/network to collab on events, advocacy etc. (Jackson is a part of DIAC)
- CSC
- Other Schools
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Interest Group
- Student organizations and other partners to engage with as a caucus (ADA, DiSCO, DAPI, JHU4RARE, etc.);
- Social media/student recruitment
- Work with other caucuses to recruit
- Use SGA events to advertise
- GroupMe
- What does the disability caucus entail?
- Send email to the entire student body