Agenda
1:30 - 3 pm: Keynote + Panel
Keynote opening talkon the intersection of technology, innovation, and transformative systems change for wellbeing featuring: Rosalind Picard, Director of Affective Computing Research at the MIT Media Lab and Marie Zemler Wu, Executive Director of Foster America.
Panel discussion featuring: Anthony Barrows, Managing Partner and Founder, Center for Behavioral Design and Social Justice; Ila Kumar Research Assistant and PhD student, Affective Computing group at MIT Media Lab; Takkeem Morgan, Founder of Mosaic ParentHub and Co-Founder of LEAD; Beth Ryan, Executive Director and Founder, Stepping Forward LA; and Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab.
3:00 - 4:30 pm: Co-design Workshop Showcase
Lived experts will showcase outcomes from a series of youth and family co-design workshops that were held across the United States (New York, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Colorado) and discuss how key stakeholders can act on these ideas to enable real-world, positive change.
Presented concepts include:
- Goal Booster: A platform that supports youth to create and work towards their self-determined goals for the future.
- Caregiver Matching System: A platform where youth can assess their compatibility with potential placements and share their experience with past placements.
- Community Gaming: A virtual space where youth can come together to play games and connect with others in an authentic way.
- Universal Record System: A youth-facing digital wallet that houses all of their documents and makes it easy to find and correct their records.
- Transit Central: An application that serves as a supportive rideshare app for youth in foster care, and provides a way for youth who have aged out of foster care to make money and work towards owning their own vehicle.
4:30 - 5:30 pm: Poster Session + Reception
In this interactive session, presenters will be available for questions and conversation on their projects and attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy refreshments, meet one another, and discuss the day.
This forum is funded by Foster America and co-hosted by the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing research group and Foster America.