The Call for Proposals to the 2017 Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference is now live. This conference is a key opportunity for southeastern education and mental health representatives from K-12 schools and child and youth-serving agencies to network, collaborate, and learn new strategies to improve school behavioral health outcomes for children and families.
This year’s conference will be held in Myrtle Beach, SC, on April 27 & 28, 2017 and will feature keynote speakers George Sugai, PhD, Carole J. Neag Endowed Professor in Special Education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut, and Gloria Reeves, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, School of Medicine.
Theme: "Moving toward exemplary and high impact school behavioral health”
For more information, including proposal requirements, CLICK HERE. For more detailed information on our program please visit our website.
Submissions that fit under one or more of the following sub-themes are requested:
- ·Improving Collaboration among Families, Educators, Clinicians, and other Youth-System Staff
- ·School-Wide Approaches for Prevention and Intervention
- ·Improving the Quality of Services
- ·Increasing Implementation Support
- ·Enhancing Cultural Humility and Reducing Racial, Ethnic, and Other Disparities
Presentation sample topics:
- ·Bullying
- ·Children of Military Members and Veterans
- ·Early Childhood (4k-G3)
- ·Early Identification
- ·Early Intervention
- ·Engaging School Resource Officers in School Behavioral Health
- ·Evidence-based Practices
- ·Family Engagement
- ·Integrated Service Models
- ·Inter-agency Collaborations
- ·LGBTQ
- ·Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
- ·PBIS
- ·Policy & Legal Implications of School Mental and Behavioral Health
- ·Special Education
- ·Suicide Prevention
- ·Technology Tools to Support SWPBIS and SMH
- ·Universal Screening
- ·Youth Engagement
Preferred presentation types:
- ·Research-based
- ·Practice-based strategy related
- ·Can be used in a school or classroom context
Formats
- ·Oral presentations for 1-hour breakout sessions
- ·Poster presentation
For more information, including proposal requirements, CLICK HERE. For more detailed information on our program please visit our website.