UTHSC Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being, Dr. Altha J. Stewart-A Framework for Achieving Mental Health Equity for Youth: Empowering communities through services, education, and community engagement.

What: A Framework for Achieving Mental Health Equity for Youth: Empowering communities through services, education, and community engagement.
Who:  Altha J. Stewart, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement
Director, Center for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being
Director, Division of Public and Community Psychiatry
UT Health Science Center

When: Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Time:   10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Where: The Great Hall & Conference Center

              1900 S. Germantown Rd.

             Germantown, TN  38138

 

Registration:

There is no cost to attend this presentation.  However, space is limited.

Registration is available at:

https://tinyurl.com/hhd674bk

 

Activity Overview:
To achieve mental health equity, we must engage in collaborative community-based research that includes the impacted community and facilitate translation of the outcomes into impactful treatment interventions. This presentation will discuss the strategies proposed to address the following challenges: addressing service access and engagement, delivery, effectiveness, and sustainability of practices within service systems, addressing knowledge gaps and expanding research opportunities; and extending and supporting community stakeholder engagement. There will also be discussion of ways to support translational research to develop, test, and implement prevention and treatment interventions relevant to youth in marginalized communities impacted by health disparities.

 Objectives

• Explain how culturally competent services empower youth and their families to achieve treatment goals in ways consistent with thriving, resilience and positive trajectory for the future..
• Describe actions that should be taken by all physicians working in marginalized and under resourced communities to improve their understanding of the disparities in healthcare that impact outcomes for marginalized populations and the strategies they can use to reduce likelihood of negative outcomes for their patients.
• Recognize the impact of mental illness, trauma and ACEs on youth from marginalized communities and how physicians can address these issues to improve emotional and psychological health and overall well-being into adulthood.
• Identify opportunities to utilize community supports as part of a system of care approach to address mental health issues as well as social determinants of health in work with patients from marginalized communities.

 

Disclosure Statement:

Individuals involved with planning, reviewing, and presenting content for this activity must disclose all financial relationships within the past 24 months with ineligible companies, regardless of the amount.  The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.  Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.  Individuals must disclose regardless of their view of the relevance of the relationship to the education.  The University of Tennessee College of Medicine, the CME staff, and Activity Director have taken appropriate steps to identify and mitigate relationships prior to the individuals assuming their roles.

 

1.5 CME / CEU credits provided