Let's Talk Mental Health!
Need a speaker for your next group? The Center provides experts to talk about a wide range of topics from parenting teens to suicide to setting healthy boundaries. We can provide a panel discussion or individual speakers based on your needs. If you don't see your topic in the list below, feel free to ask. Most topics can be adjusted for your audience. We also have bilingual speakers available.
(Each talk is about 1 hour in length)
The Mental
Health Impact
Learn strategies to encourage healthy workplaces, schools, faith communities, and neighborhoods. Gain a new understanding of the influences of the brain, family systems, spirituality, and culture on mental health.
Understanding the Mental Health Needs of Children to Encourage Well-Being and Resilience
Gain understanding of adolescent mental health in the context of community. When adolescents experience mental health challenges, their support network needs to be equipped. Receive tools for prevention and intervention that consider teens' social, family, spiritual, and academic lives.
Parenting in the Pre-teen and Early Teen Years
Learn strategies to encourage healthy workplaces, schools, faith communities, and neighborhoods. Gain a new understanding of the influences of the brain, family systems, spirituality, and culture on mental health.
Raising Socially and Emotionally Intelligent Children
Gain insights from both psychology and faith in approaching how we can parent effectively and grow strong families.
How to Help Your Kids Learn to Manage Stress (and How to Manage YOUR Stress)
What stresses do kids face today? Pressure to achieve? Social stresses? What stresses do you as a parent face?
Parenting with a Purpose
We'll share strategies for effective discipline, communication, and relationship-building that teach kids skills and principles for healthy living. What are the key developmental transitions and stages and how should you respond?
Navigating Adolescence
Parents of teens and kids beginning college have to find the right balance - knowing when to step in and when to step back. The challenges change in adolescence and the parenting strategies need to change too.
Caring for Adolescent Mental Health Needs in the Context of Community
Gain understanding of adolescent mental health in the context of community. When adolescents experience mental health challenges, their support network needs to be equipped. Receive tools for prevention and intervention that consider teens' social, family, spiritual, and academic lives.
Teen Spirit: Religion, Spirituality, and Adolescent Mental Health
Spirituality and Religion, in the world of mental health, are often glanced over as important elements of multiculturalism. They can have a surprising impact on the mental health of an adolescent. This talk introduces participants to the growing body of research exploring positive and negative mental health outcomes that are associated with religion and spirituality in teen lives.
The Church and Mental Health
The Faith Leader’s Guide to Responding to Relational and Emotional Crises and Needs: We can care effectively by noticing the subtle signs of relational, emotional, or mental difficulties and by being prepared for the crises that require intervention.
Mental Health in Schools
We'll share strategies for promoting awareness of mental health issues in schools, developing a collaborative approach to addressing needs, and creating interactions that promote emotional and relational well-being among staff and students.
Teaching Children the Other Three Rs: Respect, Responsibility, and Resilience
Practical tips for guiding behavior and helping children deal with emotions, treat others with respect, and fulfill responsibilities.
Depression: Signs, Symptoms, and Spirituality
Through the lens of faith, understand better how depression shows itself in the Christian church. This presentation works to equip church communities with both theological and psychological resources to recognize depression in the faith community, talk about it, and better understand it. It also provides resources for churches to better understand when members of the faith community may or may not benefit from a referral to a mental health professional.
Parenting Preschoolers
The preschool years are challenging and important. Tips for handling common challenges of parenting preschoolers from tantrums to trouble sharing.
The Teenage Brain
What makes your pre-teen and teen click? Understanding adolescence and the development of the brain goes a long way toward helping you maintain your peace of mind and know how you can effectively guide your child.
Helping Children Develop Social and Emotional Intelligence through the Mentoring Relationship
Mentors can help give children confidence, and help them face social and emotional challenges with good choices and resilience. Learn about the latest research into social and emotional learning and practical tips for encouraging the development of social and emotional intelligence in your mentoring programs.