Classes This Week

This page shows classes for the current week. The information is taken from the weekly email that is sent to ALL members. However, here we do not provide the credentials needed for attending via Zoom. If you are not a member, contact our Program Coordinator to obtain credentials.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – HYBRID
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

The Role of Language Access
in Addressing Health Equity and Inclusion

Presented by Rocio Munoz, Interim Healthy Communities Division Manager / Health Equity, Engagement, and Communications Manager, and Sarah Siddiqui, Benton County Health Equity Coordinator

Whether it’s for health care or other social services, creating opportunities for our community members to receive important information in the language that is most accessible for them builds overall community resiliency and impacts the social determinants of health. Language access is a way to improve the health of our community. It’s important we continue developing our capacity and cultural competency in order to support our community in equitable ways. Come learn about this topic from Benton Health staff!

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – HYBRID
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Through Other Eyes:
How Animals Sense a World We Don’t Even Know Exists

Presented by Scott Heppell, Assoc. Professor, Agricultural Sciences, OSU

How we perceive the world drives how we interact with it. And we think we’re pretty good. But there’s An Immense World out there, and we sense but thin slivers of the milieu on this planet we call home. Ed Yong, in his book by that name, leads us through the ways in which life on this planet has developed, adapted, and improved sensory systems to see things we can’t see, hear things we can’t hear, and to smell, taste, touch, electro- and magneto sense stimuli we, as humans, don’t even know exist.

Thursday, October 10, 2024 – ONLINE ONLY
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m

Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley:
Reconstructing Valley Environments

Presented by Dr. David G. Lewis, Member of the Confederated tribes of Grand Ronde, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at OSU

The presentation will address the Kalapuya tribes and their culture. Dr. Lewis will introduce his new book. “Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley” and discuss further research into the environmental water histories of the valley that show us what the original character of the Willamette Valley was previous to the removal of the tribes.