Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference: Full Schedule

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8:30am PDT

Self-Attuning- Tending to Emotional Activation: Healing our Own Wounds while Providing Care to Others

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:30am - 9:30am PDT

This workshop offers school-based or connected service providers engagement in reflective inquiry around how the experiences we’ve lived through impact and inform our ability to provide responsive mental health services for others. We examine the ways in which we might alchemize harmful accounts into emotionally corrective experiences for ourselves and our communities, promote our relational interdependence and cultivate the conditions within our school communities that allows us to be human AND boundaried.

The workshop is founded upon three essential questions: How might we might use our lived experience to positively inform the ways we lead through and amidst crisis? How might we increase self-awareness and inquiry into the therapeutic dynamics and situations that activate us? How might we be able to support our own emotional needs and healing to better support the therapeutic needs of our colleagues and the young people we serve?

-Create a brave, generative, and regulating space for educators to explore the interconnection between lived experience and their current ability to uphold trauma informed engagement.
-Engage in community valued, trauma informed regulation strategies that positively impact the process of recovery and renewal.
-Imagine new ways of incorporating recovery and renewal activities into therapeutic intervention, classrooms and curriculum, peer and student interactions, meeting structures and personal lives.
-Identify individual and collective protective factors, community assets and stressors, significant loss, trauma and opportunities for growth

Speakers

Oriana Ides

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
210C

Student and Community Mental Health

12:30pm PDT

Wellness Together's On-Campus School-Based Therapy Program: Supporting Your Students & Empowering Your Staff

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT

210C

Educators and school leaders often carry the weight of their students’ struggles, alongside the pressure of their important work. The session will highlight how schools partner with Wellness Together to not only address student mental health but also expand staff’s effectiveness, not their workload.

Wellness Together’s turnkey program places culturally responsive mental health clinicians directly in schools, offering in-person counseling services and crisis intervention on campus, all while collaborating closely with school staff.

Session participants will hear from Wellness Together leaders and partners about the program’s data-driven, evidence-based interventions, which support students' emotional well-being through a trauma-informed, on-campus approach, without insurance requirements or other qualifiers.

Learn how Wellness Together’s integrated model improves overall school climate by providing timely, professional support, helping all students reach their full potential.

Speakers

Gillian Flowers

Assistant Director of Program Partnerships, Wellness Together

Tayler Trotter

Program Director, School-Based Services, Wellness Together

Robert Garcia

Senior Director of Operations, Wellness Together

With over 15 years of experience in education and mental health, Robert Garcia leads operations at Wellness Together School Mental Health, the leader in on-campus, in-person, school-based mental health services in California. As Senior Director of Operations, he manages strategic... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
210C

School & District-Wide Leadership

3:30pm PDT

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Model and Strategies to Support Student Mental Health

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

210C

In this workshop, our Mental health Access Program (CAL-MAP.org) team will describe a systematic framework for piloting interdisciplinary consultation efforts between school-based stakeholders and pediatric mental health access programs.  As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to describe a collaboration model featuring ongoing needs assessment, as well as describe a menu of strategies aligned with this model, designed to support students with mental and behavioral health concerns.

Speakers

Michelle Riederer

Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, University of California San Francisco

Dr. Lauren Haack

Associate Professor & Clinical Psychologist, UCSF

Dr. Haack, associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DPBS), is a licensed clinical psychologist with interests focused on 1) cultural influences to mental health conceptualization, assessment, and treatment, 2) accessible and culturally attuned... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
210C

Student and Community Mental Health

Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference