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

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8:30am PDT

Sponsored Breakout: Growing Community: Increasing Connectedness for Oakland USD's McKinney Vento, Foster, and Newcomer Youth

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

213A

Oakland USD is a pioneer of community schools and empowering student voices. The district displayed this in its Equitable Design program to increase school connectedness among MKV, Foster, and Newcomer youth, as measured by school attendance, self reported SEL wellbeing, and academic identity. Join us to learn how this relationship-centered approach lifted up student ideas for increasing engagement and allowed the district to understand the root causes of absenteeism.

Speakers

Zaia Vera

Consultant, Sown To Grow

Thursday October 10, 2024 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
213A

School & District-Wide Leadership

12:30pm PDT

How Play Can Save the Day

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

213A

With the ultimate goal of consistently improving and promoting positive mental health, Playworks provides safe and healthy play practices, easily be implemented at your sites, that ultimately makes for a positive and inclusive healthy school community/environment.

Participants will learn how to:
- Teach leadership skills by creating a safe and welcoming play space that allows all kids to get into the game
- Embrace clear rules and conflict resolution tools that move students past the awkward and sometimes intimidating feeling of exclusion and chaos during recess that makes transitioning back into the classroom challenging

Speakers

Calvin Hamilton

Regional Partnership Director, Playworks

Bertina Denogean

Thursday October 10, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
213A

Student and Community Mental Health

3:30pm PDT

Sponsored Breakout: Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program: Lessons Learned and Strengthening Partnerships between Education and Health Plans to Support School Health

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

213A

The Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program (SBHIP) has created a unique opportunity for education partners and health plans to collaborate and meaningfully support the behavioral health needs of students across California. Featuring Anthem Blue Cross and Kern County Superintendent of Schools, this presentation focuses on SBHIP’s impacts, challenges, successes, lessons learned, and opportunities. It highlights students and staff in Kern County but represents a shared experience among SBHIP education partners.

Speakers

Dieumi Nguyen

Program Director of CYBHI, Anthem Blue Cross

As Anthem Blue Cross’s Program Director of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI), Dieumi Nguyen oversees the Student Behavioral Health Incentive Program (SBHIP) and the Statewide Multi-Payer Fee Schedule implementation. In her work, she partners closely with... Read More →

Lourdes Bucher

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
213A

School & District-Wide Leadership

Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference