Children and Youth: The State of Mental Health

April 26, 2021 @ 9:00AM — July 31, 2021 @ 12:15PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Community Panel Discussion after the event 1:30 pm-2:30 pm Preparing teachers, families, and professionals to serve the youth of our community

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This virtual conference is filled with nationally acclaimed speakers coming directly to you. It will be followed by a community panel and Live Q/A discussion from 1:30 pm-2:30 pm to discuss how we meet the mental health needs of children and youth in our community.

KEYNOTE | The Cost of Silence: Why We're Still Talking About Stigma

Vanita Halliburton | Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Grant Halliburton Foundation

No other medical condition today carries the shame and stigma that still surround mental illness, leaving youth to suffer in silence under the weight of anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. This session offers strategies for ending the silence and stigma through education, encouragement, and connection to resources for help.


Vanita Halliburton is co-founder and executive chairman of Grant Halliburton Foundation, which was established in 2006 following the suicide death of her teenage son Grant Halliburton. The Foundation’s mission is to strengthen the network of mental health resources for children, teens and young adults; promote better mental health; and help prevent suicide.

Vanita is a frequent speaker on mental health, resiliency, and suicide prevention to educators, counselors, parents, community groups and professional conferences. She speaks from the heart about her son’s battle with depression and bipolar disorder, his suicide at the age of 19, and the need for a collaborative and comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in our community.

Learn more about Vanita Halliburton | Website

Schools | Mental Health and the Schools

Dr. Sharon Hoover | Co-Director, National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) Director, NCTSN Center for Safe Supportive Schools (CS3)

Sharon A. Hoover, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH, www.schoolmentalhealth.org), and Director of the Center for Safe Supportive Schools (CS3). She currently leads national efforts to support states, districts, and schools in the adoption of national performance standards of comprehensive school mental health systems (www.theSHAPEsystem.com). Dr. Hoover has led and collaborated on multiple federal and state grants, with a commitment to the study and implementation of quality children’s mental health services. Currently, she co-leads two large randomized trials of school mental health efforts, one focused on reducing exclusionary discipline practices by installing mental health and restorative practice approaches and one on improving school mental health services with best practices in family engagement, educator mental health literacy, and modularized evidence-based clinical practices.

Creating safe, supportive, and resilient schools has been a major emphasis of Dr. Hoover’s research, education, and clinical work. Since 2004, she has worked with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Treatment Services Adaptation Center for Resiliency, Hope and Wellness in Schools, to train school district and school leaders, educators, and support staff in multi-tiered systems of support for psychological trauma. She has trained school and community behavioral health staff and educators in districts across the United States, as well as internationally.

Learn more about Sharon Hoover | Website



Families | Partnering with Families

Dr. Claudette Fette | Clinical Professor and Occupational Therapy, Texas Women's University

Dr. Claudette Fette, Ph.D., will speak from her lived experience of having three sons. The oldest, Aaron, had a schizoaffective disorder and a substance use disorder. Her family went through many disciplines all focused on identifying and "treating" Aaron's deficits and when that didn't work they were left in a very frightening, deep hole. When those systems failed Aaron, Claudette decided that she needed to figure out how to help other families like hers and she knew that she wanted a discipline that could focus on how to have a life anyway, rather than fixing a disease. Having worked as an Occupational therapist, in an acute psychiatric hospital, homeless shelter, school, and director of a family to family organization, she loves teaching because it lets her reach more people through my students than I could alone and because it allows her to work with people in her community who would otherwise have no access to mental health services or supports. With one foot in the world of providers and another in that of families, I am hoping to share what I see as essential knowledge for all in pursuit of effective family support.Dr.

Learn more about Dr. Claudette Fette | Website



Professionals | Stress in the Time of COVID-19: The Impact on Children and Adolescents

Dr. Vaile Wright | Senior Director of Health Care Innovation, American Psychological Association

Dr. Vaile Wright, Ph.D., is the Senior Director of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. She is a licensed psychologist, and researcher focusing on developing strategies to leverage technology and data to address issues within health care including increasing access, measuring care, and optimizing treatment delivery at both the individual and system levels. Dr. Vaile Wright will be examining the stress of the pandemic on children and adolescents and be speaking directly to professionals in the mental health field to provide them practical information and resources needed to provide the care for children and adolescents that will be necessary for the coming months and years.


Learn more about Dr. Vaile Wright | Website



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