*THIS COURSE HAS REACHED CAPACITY AND REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED! WE STILL HAVE SPACE IN THE 2/1 YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION SESSION. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON THAT PROGRAM.*

Child Mental Health

Through activities, role-play, video, and demonstrations, participants will spend 90 mins gaining a baseline understanding of the difference between mental health and mental illness, exploring the stigma of mental health, learning how to recognize the signs and symptoms of a camper who may be developing a mental health challenge, and creating a plan to help.

Each e-session is limited to 25 camps/programs. Your camp’s registration will come with two seats.

We highly recommend you join us live for the most robust and engaging experience. If you are unable to do so, the recording will be made available to registered attendees for 15 days following the live e-session.

This course will be presented by trainers from the Center for School Behavioral Health at Mental Health America of Greater Houston (the Center) as part of its Emotional Backpack Project. For more information about the Emotional Backpack project, you can visit here. The Center serves as a “living laboratory” for incubating innovative, cost-effective and replicable best practices to improve the behavioral health of students by facilitating collective action; providing highly specialized professional development opportunities, technical assistance and community education; and conducting research, advocacy, and policy analysis.

We encourage you to join both this training and the Youth Suicide Prevention Training module on February 1, however you do not need to attend both. They are offered independently of one another.

About the trainers: 

Keenisha Protho is a Licensed Master Social Worker in the state of Texas with 10 plus years of experience in the field of social work. Originally from Northwest Indiana, Keenisha started her career as a contracted case manager working with families who lost their children to Child Protective Services to regain custody of their children in 2012. Keenisha received a Bachelor and Maters of Social Work from Indiana University. Over the years, Keenisha has gained a wealth of knowledge in her experience as a Family Support Specialist, CPS case worker, Advocacy Coordinator, Community Educator, PRN therapist and Behavior Specialist. As a Professional Development Specialist, Keenisha enjoys training school personnel and other youth interfacing staff and agencies on topics such as youth mental health and youth suicide prevention.

Sharifa J. Charles serves as a Professional Development Specialist for the Center for School Behavioral Health at Mental Health America – Greater Houston. She is charged with creating and providing high impact, enriching and culturally sensitive mental and behavioral health professional development opportunities to school districts and community organizations throughout the city of Houston. To date, she has provided mental and behavioral health trainings in over 25 districts, countless youth serving organizations across the Greater Houston Area. Ms. Charles has also been deployed to Hurricane ravaged communities like Bay County Florida and the United States Virgin Islands to provide professional development trainings to counselors and first responders. Throughout her professional career, Sharifa has proudly worked for or collaborated with countless CBOS, government agencies and NGOs. She brings an extensive background in program implementation, capacity building, training and facilitation within diverse vulnerable populations throughout the City of Houston and beyond.

When: Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm ET

Where: Online, via Zoom 

Cost: $60 for ACA, New England members/ $85 for non-members. *Each registration comes with two seats for your camp/program. You can select the two participants during the check-out process. Registration of the first person from the camp/organization is based off of individual membership status.

Register: THIS COURSE HAS REACHED CAPACITY AND REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED! WE STILL HAVE SPACE IN THE 2/1 YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION SESSION. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON THAT PROGRAM. Please register first person at the FIRST PERSON rate and then the additional person as SECOND PERSON (no additional charge). 

We encourage you to join both this training and the Youth Suicide Prevention Training module on February 1, however you do not need to attend both. They are offered independently of one another.

Registrations are non-refundable, but may be transferred to another eligible individual from your camp/program prior to the start of the event.

Questions, reach out to Kerry Salvo, Director of Education and Professional Development at kerry@acanewengland.org or 781-541-6080 ext. 104.