The 17th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health will be held October 25-27, 2012 at the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown Hotel (75 S. West Temple) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Conference is sponsored by the Center for School Mental Health (CSMH) and the IDEA Partnership (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs [OSEP], sponsored by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education). The theme of the 17th Annual Conference is "School Mental Health: Promoting Positive Outcomes for Students, Families, Schools, and Communities." Save-the-date! The conference emphasizes a shared school-family-community agenda to bring high quality and evidence-based mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention to students in general and special education and their families. The conference features twelve specialty tracks with over 100 sessions, outstanding plenary sessions, intensive trainings, advanced practice skills workshops, symposia, and a poster session and networking reception. The conference offers speakers and participants numerous opportunities to advance knowledge and skills and to network related to school mental health practice, research, training, and policy. Click here for more information regarding registration and travel arrangements. Request for Proposals
Proposals are now being accepted for the 17th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health. For the Request for Proposals, click here. The deadline for submissions is January 23, 2012. All proposals must be submitted online by clicking here. Conference Objectives
As a result of attending this conference, participants will be able to:
1) List at least three major barriers to evidence-based practice in school mental health and identify at least three strategies to overcome them.
2) Define the concept of family-school-community partnership.
3) Develop written achievable strategies for program evaluation, focusing on outcomes valued by school and community stakeholders.
4) List at least three strategies to build policy support for school mental health.
Awards
The Juanita Evans Memorial, and the Youth and Family Partnership Awards are presented each year at the Annual Conference. Nominations for the awards will be accepted until August 15, 2012. For more information on the nomination process:
Juanita Evans Memorial Award
Youth and Family Partnership Award Nomination Exhibits
Exhibitors have an opportunity to present products and services to approximately 800 professionals at this interdisciplinary conference attended by school mental health professionals. For more information click here. *Please click here to view PowerPoint presentations from the 16th Annual Conference (September 22-24, 2011) in Charleston, South Carolina. *Please click here to view program booklets from our previous conferences. The Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health is sponsored by the Center for School Mental Health (CSMH) in collaboration with the IDEA Partnership, sponsored by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). | 
