Mental Health America:  Call for Conference Proposals

Applications due:  Monday, January 9

Mental Health America’s 2023 conference will focus on Next Gen Prevention, exploring ways to promote lived experience, advance health equity, and focus on social determinants of health.  They are particularly interested in workshop proposals related to:

  • Youth and Young Adults – creating solutions in partnership with young people.
  • Social Determinants of Mental Health (SDOMH) – identifying, responding to, and understanding the SDOMH and their impact on health equity.
  • Continuum of Prevention – promoting well-being, preventing illness, increasing resilience, and fostering recovery.
  • Crisis Response – responding to mental health crises and deaths of despair, 988 implementation, and new pathways in harm reduction.
  • Recovery and Resilience – promoting the role of peer support, substance use and recovery, the power of lived experience, and storytelling.
  • Innovation – exploring emerging trends in mental health treatment and well-being promotion, including digital mental health support, alternative therapies, the role of the metaverse, spirituality, and more.

The conference will be held June 6 – 10, 2023 in Washington, D.C.  Visit the Call for Proposals page for more information.