NE Child Mental Health

Virtual - Zoom  
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM   Export to iCalendar Eastern Standard Time

This introductory level offering defines mental health, discusses signs and symptoms of a mental health challenge or disorder, and how to support a youth state of wellbeing.

During this 90-minute e-session, participants will use activities, role-play, and demonstrations to:

  • Gain a baseline understanding of the difference between mental health and mental illness
  • Explore the stigma of mental health
  • Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of a camper who may be developing a mental health challenge
  • Create a plan to help 

This course is 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, click 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
  • Conducting research, advocacy, and policy analysis.

Each registration comes with two seats for your organization. You can select both participants during checkout process. Registration of the first person from your organization is based on individual membership status.

Please register your first attendee as FIRST PERSON and your second attendee as SECOND PERSON (there is no additional charge for your second attendee).

*ACA, New England offered this program in January 2023. If you attended that session, please note that the content is the same. *

 Price LevelCost:
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Registration: First Person
 Member$70.00
 Non-Member$95.00
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Registration: Second Person from camp/organization
 Member$0.00
 Non-Member$0.00
Virtual - Zoom  

Additional Information

Each registration comes with two seats for your organization. You can select both participants during checkout process. Registration of the first person from your organization is based on individual membership status. This e-session is limited to 30 organizations.

 

Please register your first attendee as FIRST PERSON and your second attendee as SECOND PERSON (there is no additional charge for your second attendee).

 

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

We encourage you to join both this training and the Youth Suicide Prevention module on February 26, but attendance at both is not required as they are offered independently.

Use of Images and Audio by ACA, New England: Through my registration, I give American Camp Association, New England (ACANE) full rights and permissions with respect to any photographs, video, and audio recordings taken during the ACANE event. These images and recordings may be used by ACANE and its agents in any format or medium and for any lawful purpose.

 

Contact Us

Questions, reach out to Gillian Gold, Events & Logistics Coordinator at gillian@acanewengland.org or 781-541-6080 ext.106.