Join Young Minds Matter 2021, a free virtual conference, to learn about children’s mental health.
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Virtually connect through arts, community-building, and dialogues on healing to strengthen and improve the mental health and wellbeing of children, youth, and families! This year, the Young Minds Matter conference will share local strategies with a spotlight on multiple collaborative efforts in the greater Houston area and across Texas with culturally rich and justice-grounded approaches. At a time when we are all navigating increasing challenges to our mental wellbeing, this is an opportunity for people around the country to learn from community-driven approaches in support of children and youth of color.
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Inviting champions for young minds everywhere! In this conference, participants will learn to:
- Describe ”upstream” community approaches that can strengthen community healing, connection, and justice.
- Engage in candid and productive discussions about how structural inequities and racism impact the mental wellbeing of children and youth of color.
- Demonstrate the power of engaging historically excluded groups (people of color; individuals and families experiencing financial challenges, mental health challenges, etc.) in all aspects of multisector, collaborative work.
- Identify barriers and strategies to lift up the voices of youth and residents as the decision-makers and leaders of their community.
Featured topics include:
- A New Deal for Youth: Our Vision for Healing and Wellbeing (Opening Panel featuring young policy leaders)
- Socially Connected Communities: Equity Solutions to Social Isolation
- Supporting Infant Mental Health and Family Wellbeing and Kindergarten Readiness
- Supporting School Systems: Discipline and Mental Health Connection and Ending the Nexus into the Prison Pipeline
- Seeds of the Social Wheelhouse: A Conversation about Safety, Connection, and Activism by the Redefining Youth Justice Coalition
- March for Our Lives Houston: Youth Against Gun Violence
- Preventing ACEs: Healing Through Expressive Arts; Juneteenth Legacy Project: Art in Action
- Rooted in Racial Justice: Growing Green Spaces for Healthy and Healing Communities
Pre-recorded and live sessions on these topics and more on Thursday, Oct. 21st and Youth Voices for Change Virtual Summit on Saturday, Oct. 23rd. The Youth Voices for Change Summit will be an opportunity for youth leaders and organizers to gather and engage in critical conversations about mental wellbeing from their viewpoint.
* Please note that this year’s YMM conference is virtual and will take place on Whova, an online platform. Once you register, you will be prompted to download the Whova app. You must use the same e-mail you register with to set-up your profile in the app. You may attend the conference via the Whova mobile app or online through your internet browser.
Through the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, CEUs (Continuing Education Units) are available for Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists, Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors, Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, and Texas Certification Board of Addiction Professionals. For more information, please contact Nzinga Khalid at Nzinga@preventioninstitute.org.
Young Minds Matter is funded by the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and coordinated by Prevention Institute. We are excited to lift up the exciting work underway through the Communities of Care Initiative. This year’s virtual format allows us to invite people from across the country to learn about this work and participate in these important and timely conversations.
Please share this opportunity.
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