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

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10:15am PDT

Integrating Music in Counseling: It's easier than you think!

Friday October 11, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am PDT

“Integrating Music in Counseling” will provide participants with opportunities to engage in music making activities that can be used effectively with students of all ages. Participants will recognize why music is beneficial to mental health, including its usefulness in addressing trauma. Participants will identify barriers to music making and will be provided with proven steps to overcome them. No previous musical experience is necessary. Let’s make joyful music together.

Speakers

Carol Coyne

TUPE Program Manager, CNUSD -TUPE - Tobacco Use Prevention Education

Our TUPE grant sponsors GSA clubs in our district as well as supporting staff training. Talk to me about how tobacco use prevention funding is supporting LGBTQ+ youth in our district.

Friday October 11, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am PDT
212B

Student and Community Mental Health

1:45pm PDT

Boomer vs Zoomers - Are you Socially, Academically, Financially, and Emotionally/Educationally (S.A.F.E.) prepared for Life Successes?

Friday October 11, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT

212B

Participants will learn how the rapid evolution of skills places pressure on colleges to keep up.

Participants will learn why college graduates can no longer rely on their degree to accurately signal their fitness for a job.

Participants will learn how colleges are pursuing innovative strategies, including integrating career education into the curriculum, connecting students with career networks, and ensuring equitable access to internships.

Participants will learn how the intersection of mental health and higher education is impacting today's new college student.

Speakers

Linwood Webster

Student Success and Retention Specialist, UNC Chapel Hill - School of Nursing

I have over 25+ years of higher education experience, with educational opportunities at 2- and 4-year colleges, and at HBCU's and several HWI's. I possess an academic advising style that consists of a holistic model of academic advising, baseline clinical mental health counseling... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm PDT
212B

Student and Community Mental Health

3:00pm PDT

Believe In over Buy In - Interconnected Systems Frameworks That EVERYONE Can Get Behind

Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

212B

Student mental wellness programming and systems often feel like a hamster wheel where we're spinning our proverbial wheels but not getting closer to improved student outcomes. In this session, participants will examine staff and organizational culture and explore how to move staff beyond their “why” and towards their “just cause”. They will explore the features of an interconnected systems framework and how it is the foundation to effective and meaningful student mental wellness programs.

Speakers

Carissa Lemos

Director of Student Services, Soquel Union Elementary School District

Some people know they want to become an educator from an early age. Carissa was not that person. As the child of an educator, with three older sisters who are educators, Carissa set out to blaze their own trail.They moved to Seattle to study sociology. They spent more time out of... Read More →

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Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
212B

School & District-Wide Leadership

Wellness Together's 8th Annual Student Mental Wellness Conference