Northview PAH

05/19/2025

A huge thank you for a great event!!! I am so grateful for all of the vendors, volunteers, and guests who all made it happen!!! Couldn’t do it without you!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

05/16/2025

https://www.fox17online.com/news/morning-news/northview-high-school-hosts-pah-event-for-deaf-hard-of-hearing-students

Northview High School is hosting the third annual PAH! event Saturday, May 17. There are 60 booths at the event featuring colleges, vendors and resource programs.

05/15/2025

https://www.wzzm13.com/video/news/local/deaf-expo-brings-community-together/69-5c76a8b4-9245-420c-bf70-f6fd0dfd3627

Now in its third year, the expo drew hundreds from across the state to Northview High School.

05/13/2025

Only a couple days away!!! Come on out!! Let’s have a great event!!!

05/07/2025

Hey everyone!! PAH is coming up quick!! If you’d like to pre-order some merchandise, click the link below! They will also have a booth at the event for on-site orders as well!!

04/28/2025

Coming up in 20 days!!! Please share!! Let’s get the word out and have a great turnout!!

04/22/2025

04/14/2025

Looking for one more sponsor for this year’s event! Please let me know if your company or a company you know would like to sponsor! Any amount helps!

04/12/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who made it out to Bud and Stanley’s!!! Your support is so appreciated!!!

04/09/2025

Please come out and support Northview PAH!! Make sure you show this to the server!! We want to make sure that we put on a great event and a big part of it is made possible with help and support from these events!!

10/08/2024

Congrats, to Justine Bryant on earning a 40 Under 40 recognition for her work to raise awareness about the Deaf community through education, resources and communication.

Bryant, the owner of consulting firm Access to ASL and an assistant professor at Grand Rapids Community College, said career success wouldn’t have been possible without the local Deaf community and the mentors who have been a “cornerstone in her life’s journey.”

“It’s those inequities that I’ve seen between the hearing world and the Deaf world that inspire me to make sure that there’s less of a gap, if not total equity, between these communities,” Bryant said.

Bryant’s interest in ASL started while volunteering in high school at a check-in table and was approached by deaf person. After facing a communication barrier, she was inspired to learn sign language and get involved in the Deaf community.

Bryant enrolled in ASL classes at GRCC and fell in love with it. She went on to become a national certified ASL interpreter and has been a professor at GRCC for two years.

As an assistant professor, Bryant grew GRCC’s ASL program by increasing course enrollment by nearly 20%, establishing a partnership for credit transfer between GRCC to Lansing Community College, and conducting high school outreach to promote dual enrollment.

Additionally, Bryant helped the ASL One course count as a general education course rather than an elective. This fall semester, all four sections are full, with about 108 students enrolled across the sections.

Outside of the college, Bryant is working with her long-term mentor, Rowan O’Dougherty, a GRCC colleague and one of her first deaf professors who recruited her to teach at GRCC, to further promote ASL resources in Grand Rapids. Bryant and O’Dougherty are creating training videos to help law enforcement and emergency services better interact with and serve people with hearing loss.

“We have been seeing some issues within the Deaf community of not being able to communicate with police and what happens, and there’s a fear that’s associated with that,” Bryant said. “(The training videos aim) to alleviate some of that stress within the Deaf community, but also to educate our local officers so they know how to best work with somebody who does have hearing loss.”

— Elizabeth Schanz (Crain's Grand Rapids Business)

05/20/2024

Aerial view of the expo!