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Connecting the Dots for Children's Mental Health
This full-day training for healthcare providers, educators, therapists, social workers, and family partners focused on how child-serving professionals and families can work together to address children's mental health, substance use and developmental disabilities.
April 18, 2024
Region 13 Education Service Center
5701 Springdale Road, Austin, TX 78723
- 8:30 a.m. Breakfast and exhibitor tables showcasing community resources
- 8:45 a.m. Welcome, Dr. Karli Silverberg, CommUnity Care
- 9:00 a.m. Crisis services Overview
- Crisis Response in School, Nikkida Butler, Counseling Coordinator, Hutto ISD
- Integral Care Crisis Response, Tesleigh Eure, MCOT Program Manager, Integral Care
- Dell Children's Medical Center Crisis Response, Adam Crawford, LMSW, Social Services Manager, Dell Children’s Medical Center Mental Health Unit
- 10:00 a.m. Break
- 10:15 a.m. Panel discussion of best practices in collaboration between schools, providers and families, moderated by Nanette Deaton, Region 13 Education Service Center Counseling Services Administrative Specialist
- Leah Kelly, Certified Family Partner working for Integral Care at Del Valle ISD, Manor ISD and Pflugerville ISD
- Dr. Tara Greendyk, Medical Director of Child and Adolescent Health, CommUnity Care
- Suzanne Hart, Lead Psychologist, Austin Child Guidance Center
- Lindy Frazer, LSSP, Evaluation and Child Find Specialist, Region 13 Education Service Center
- 11:45 a.m. Lunch and exhibitor tables
- 1:00 p.m. Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium Psychiatric consult for schools and health providers: Dr. Nithya Mani, MD, Pediatric Psychiatrist, UT Health Austin and Dell Children's Medical Center
- 2:00 p.m. Promoting the Mental Well-being of Transition Age Youth with Developmental Disabilities: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, Katie Mitten, LMSW, Cassie Pustejovsky, and Rohanna Sykes, LPC-S
Resource Map for Youth with Developmental Disabilities
- 3:00 p.m. Youth Mental Health First Aid, Taylor Johnson, M.A., Mental Health First Aid Team Lead
- 4:00 p.m. Adjourn
