Save the Date for Our 2025 Conference—Youth Canvas: Painting the Picture of Mental Wellness
May 1-2, 2025
WIAAP is hosting “Youth Canvas: Painting the Picture of Mental Wellness” to address an arc of child and youth mental wellness, including the novel topic of youth mental health in the emergency medicine context.
The program will be dedicated to mental and behavioral health, focusing on what patient care looks like in a variety of settings and how they tie into the medical home. For the first time, we are expanding from primary care pediatricians and family physicians to a broad base of disciplines—EMS, mid-level clinicians, therapists, psychiatrists, and school health (nurses and counselors). Public health and legislative partners are encouraged to attend.
Didactic, interactive, panel, keynote and other sessions will provide educational and networking opportunities with peers with a goal of lifting up a systems of care approach, including the acknowledgment of reflective practice and secondary trauma. Central to programming will be the exploration of providing equitable, quality care for all children and families, and how to tie meaningfully into community resources that serve them.
Proposed topics include:
- Youth mental health in the emergency medicine setting
- Growing through primary and vicarious trauma
- Voices of lived expertise
- Truancy as an equity issue
- Coordination with school personnel on treatment protocols
- Universal screening for suicidality
Attend a Screening of the Award-Winning Documentary Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion. Their Pain.
We’ll open the conference with a screening of the film “Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion. Their Pain.” an award-winning documentary based on interviews with nurses, social workers, clinical psychologists, doctors, firefighters, first responders who rescue, assist, and help to heal the injured and traumatized—and also tell their own remarkable and often painful stories. The film takes us on a journey into a world the public rarely sees, depicting emotional costs experienced by professional care providers and probing the emotional consequences of professional public service.
The film asks the question: How are professional caregivers and first responders affected emotionally and physically? Who helps them? Viewers discover that engaged, empathic caregiving can sometimes be an occupational hazard; we explore the painful and human sides of these professions and vulnerable responses to trauma — Compassion Fatigue — also known as Secondary Traumatic Stress or Vicarious Trauma. The film also addresses high levels of career satisfaction and professional meaning that caregivers experience. Ultimately, the film provides ways to cope and recover from toxic stress in the workplace.
Conference Support Opportunities
Youth Canvas offers a wide range of opportunities for exhibitors and sponsors to connect with our attendees in meaningful ways. More details coming soon about your support options.
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WIAAP Fall Conference 2023 Recap
Best Practices: Adolescent Health in Primary Care
Providing a holistic view of adolescent health in primary care, including topics around healthy digital experiences, medical management of disordered eating, pediatric substance use, screening for suicide risk, pediatric gender affirming care, common gynecological concerns and contraception – and much more.
Nationwide experts convened on best practices and advancements to provide comprehensive, quality care for adolescents and young adults.
What We Heard From Attendees
“I plan to make changes to interviewing regarding screen time, as well as, improving communication skills regarding gender dysphoria and associated issues.”
“I have a much better understanding of transgender terms and how to approach these patients.”
“I learned to not get caught in assessments to label but to assist in behavior changes.”
“I really appreciated Dr. Paula Cody’s discussion on eating disorders. She had great points such as viewing weight as a data point like a vital sign when treating a patient with an eating disorder. She also mentioned the differences in eating disorders and important labs to monitor.”
“I will be using different language and terms when talking about weight with students.”
“Thank you for what was a very valuable experience.”
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School Health Forum – Archive Session
About this event:
Take action to improve how school health and primary best support students – together! We covered:
- The current state of the state and the need for meaningful intersection between school health and primary care
- Prioritizing evidence-based school health through school nurses, school counselors and collaborating with medical advisors
- Effects of COVID and mental health of students and staff
- Advocacy roles: aligning resources and data-driven solutions
