27th Annual Symposium

Description:

Our 2025 Calciano Symposium will address the current state of youth mental health. The CDC recently released findings that between 2013 and 2023 nearly all indicators of poor mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviors have deteriorated among youth. We will be bringing together nationally recognized experts, local youth advocates, providers and youth to discuss the current research and understanding of this crisis. Our presenters will also share treatment strategies, approaches and models for services tailored to youth with a particular emphasis on programs that prioritize the perspective and involvement of youth. Local programs focused on prevention and early intervention will be highlighted as will community resources. Medical and mental health professionals working with adolescents and young adults as well as school personnel, parents, students and community members are welcome to join us for this important symposium.

Featured Speakers:

Steven Adelsheim, MD (he/him), is a child/adolescent psychiatrist & Associate Chair for Community Engagement at Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry, where he directs the Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing. Steve’s work is focused on early detection/intervention programs for young people. He leads the effort to bring allcove to the US, an integrated youth mental health model, which opened in June 2021 in Santa Clara County, with additional sites now in LA and San Mateo Counties, with plans to open 8 additional centers in California over the next 2 years. Dr. Adelsheim also co-leads PEPPNET, the national clinical network for early psychosis programs. Steve also co-directs the Media and Mental Health Initiative in Stanford’s Psychiatry Department. Dr. Adelsheim has partnered for many years with Native American and tribal partners on expanding early intervention mental health supports for tribal youth and has worked in school mental health at the local, state and national levels for many years.

Ana Lilia Soto, MA (she/her/ella), is the Youth Development Manager at the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing within Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Ana Lilia Soto’s commitment to community voice, agency and youth development has guided her involvement with youth and community for the last 23 years. She specializes in cultural rites of passage programming and life skill development for youth. She has extensive experience working with foster care youth, pregnant and parenting teens, gang-impacted youth, and youth in crisis. Ana Lilia has created, developed and implemented empowerment curriculum for under-resourced youth aimed at encouraging youth to acknowledge their own potential using a philosophy grounded in culture, identity development, resiliency, and acknowledgment. At the Center, Ana Lilia focuses on supporting youth voice, provides technical assistance to allcove partners in developing their youth advisory groups, facilitates the statewide Center Youth Collective, and ensures that the youth perspective is included in all the Center’s goals and touchpoints.

Vicki Harrison, MSW (she/her) has over twenty-five years of experience working within the public health, education and mental health sectors developing innovative, community-based programs at the local, state and national levels. As Program Director of Stanford’s Center for Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing, she develops and implements a portfolio of projects promoting early intervention and increased access to mental health services and support for young people. These include allcove – a first of its kind integrated youth mental health model in the U.S, #GoodforMEdia – a youth-driven peer mentoring program focused on social media and youth mental health, and Stanford Psychiatry’s Media and Mental Health Initiative, partnering with the media, mental health and technology sectors to enhance the positive impacts of media on youth mental health and wellbeing. She is lead editor of the new book, Social Media and Youth Mental Health, published by the American Psychiatric Association this fall; and is a frequent speaker for conferences, trainings and media interviews focused on youth mental health, social media and suicide prevention. Vicki is a founding member of TikTok’s U.S. Content Advisory Council and also serves in advisory capacities with the California Partners Project, Design It For Us, Stanford Children’s Health and the California Children’s Data Protection Working Group.