Events (List View)
CPAN ECHO Series: Autism Treatments: Clinical Pearls
Autism Treatments: Clinical Pearls
Stress Reset: Science-Based Strategies for Workplace Well-Being (Copy)
Stress is a universal human experience, but today’s world amplifies it in unique ways that previous generations did not face.
Parenting Kids With ADHD: Stop the Shame Spiral
This workshop will help parents and caregivers of children with ADHD understand what is really happening underneath their child’s behavior and how to respond in ways that build connection instead of shame.
Exploring Wellness Through Music and Storytelling
Attend to gain practical tools, learn from experts and lived experience, and connect with a supportive community working toward better understanding and care for people living with chronic illness.
Raising Calm Minds: Mindfulness Techniques for Home and Schools
From classrooms to living rooms, kids today face more distractions and stressors than ever before. Mindfulness practices can offer children and teens simple, powerful tools to calm their minds, regulate their emotions, and stay focused. This training will share easy-to-use strategies that parents, caregivers, and educators can apply right away.
Why This Training Matters
Children and teens benefit from learning mindfulness skills early in life, as mindfulness can improve focus, build resilience, and strengthen emotional regulation. Adults play a critical role in modeling and supporting these practices at home and in schools.
What You’ll Learn
The science behind mindfulness and child development
Simple practices kids can use to stay calm and focused
Strategies for integrating mindfulness into classrooms and family routines
Resources to keep mindfulness practices consistent and fun
Teens, Trees, & Mindfulness
This nature-based workshop blends gentle movement, mindfulness, and group reflection in a way that feels approachable, not awkward or forced. Teens will have the opportunity to step away from daily pressures, connect with nature, and learn simple strategies to feel more grounded and in control.
Understanding Suicide in Youth: Recognizing and Responding to Warning Signs
This essential training equips parents and caregivers with the knowledge and skills to recognize and respond to warning signs of suicide in children and teenagers.
Live Event: Supporting Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age
In response governments around the world are introducing efforts to ban youth from social media, citing it as a cause of the youth mental health crisis.
Clinical Realities of Dissociative Identity Disorder: What Every Provider Should Know
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) remains one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions—both in the public sphere and within clinical practice.
PeriPAN ECHO Series: Engagement & Motivation Enhancement Strategies for Pregnant and Post-Partum Women Who Use Substances
Pregnant and postpartum women deserve comprehensive, trauma-informed care, yet many face challenges in accessing behavioral health and substance use services, particularly in rural and under-resourced areas.
Understanding Trauma: How the Brain, Body, and Relationships Shape Healing
Learn how traumatic experiences affect the brain, body, and stress response system, and why people respond to trauma in different ways.
CALM Conversations
Join us for a free training on Conversations on Access to Lethal Means (CALM Conversations)—a nationally recognized, evidence-based training that equips you to support someone in crisis with knowledge, confidence, and compassion. Through interactive instruction and hands-on safety planning exercises, you’ll learn to navigate difficult conversations, reduce risk, and offer meaningful support.
Live Q&A: Bipolar Disorder in Real Life, A Discussion with Gabe Howard
Join us for an engaging and informative free, live, Q&A with Gabe Howard, an award-winning mental health speaker who lives with bipolar disorder.
CPAN Webinar Series: Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: What Every PCP Should Know
Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: What Every PCP Should Know
Substance Use and Mental Health: The Impact of Stress, Trauma, and Life Circumstances
Learn why mental health and substance use challenges often occur together and how trauma, chronic stress, work environments, family habits, and life circumstances affect a person’s risk and recovery.
Insight Mental Wellness Health Fair
It is going to be a day packed with health awareness and fun!
Taking Care of Ourselves
We hear a lot about self-care, but what does it really mean in the midst of a busy, often unpredictable life? Is it a spa day, five minutes of quiet, or simply eating lunch before 3 PM?
Chronic Illness Symposium
Attend to gain practical tools, learn from experts and lived experience, and connect with a supportive community working toward better understanding and care for people living with chronic illness.
Grounding Through Art
Join us for an inspiring evening of art and connection, hosted in partnership with Transitioning Warriors at River City Advocacy. This month, we’re diving into creativity by designing your very own canvas tote.
Eating Disorder Support Group for People with Chronic Illnesses/Long-Term Disabilities
ANAD pioneered peer support groups for eating disorders, and today we are the largest resource of our kind in the country.
Lunch & Learn: Using ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) with High Schoolers
This workshop will give participants a basic understanding of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques to work with high school students.
Reflect & Renew: A Journaling Session
Need a space to decompress, refocus, and reconnect with yourself? Reflect & Renew is a supportive weekly journaling session designed to help you slow down, process your thoughts, and build habits that support well-being.
NAMI Bridges To Care Orientación (En Espanol)
Esta sesión de una hora está diseñada para quienes son nuevos en NAMI-Bridges to Care o tienen preguntas sobre nuestros programas. Le explicaremos POR QUÉ ofrecemos formación gratuita en salud mental, QUÉ se requiere para obtener las certificaciones de Wellness Champions y Youth Mental Health Champions, y CUÁNDO y DÓNDE se imparten los cursos.
Not All Harm Is Risk: Differential Assessment of Harm OCD, Suicidal Ideation, and NSSI
Not all thoughts of harm signal risk—and not all risk presents as intrusive thoughts. This talk will examine the clinical distinctions between harm-related obsessive–compulsive disorder (Harm OCD) and genuine suicidal ideation (SI) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) urges, with emphasis on accurate assessment and differential formulation.
Advocating for Mental Health Policy: How Everyday Voices Help Shape Mental Health Decisions at the Local, State, and National Level
This presentation equips participants with practical tools to advocate for mental health across state and federal systems, including how to communicate effectively with legislators, governors’ offices, members of Congress, and executive agencies.
Effective Treatment Approaches for OCD in Adults
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is more than intrusive thoughts or repetitive behaviors—it’s a cycle that can take over daily life. Too often, adults with OCD spend years navigating misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, and ineffective treatment.
Youth Mental Wellness Day
Breaking Barriers is an annual event led by the teens in the ESB-MACC's Caminos Teen Leadership Program. It is a safe space to "break barriers" in mental health stigmas for teens and find connection with one another!
Research Connections - Dr. James Aluri
Our research funding goes toward studies from neurobiological, psychosocial, and genetic perspectives, as well as topics including clinical treatment, community intervention, and survivors of suicide loss.
ACT in Action: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Real-Life Change
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is more than a set of techniques—it’s a way of helping people live with greater psychological flexibility, resilience, and alignment with their values.
Helping Youth to Flourish: Fostering Positive Online Spaces and Suicide Prevention Among LGBTQ+ Youth
The more we understand about suicide, the more we can prevent it. AFSP-funded research is essential to our mission of saving lives and bringing hope to those affected by suicide.
2026 Safe & Supportive Schools Symposium
Participants will engage with evidence-based strategies, enhance professional and personal skills, and collaborate with colleagues, researchers, and leading experts from across the state.
Panel Discussion with the Authors of The First Peer-Reviewed Expert Consensus on the Use of Ketogenic Therapy for Serious Mental Illness
A new expert consensus published in Frontiers in Nutrition marks a significant milestone in the field of metabolic psychiatry.
Risky Behaviors in Adolescents
This CPAN ECHO session focuses on “Risky Behaviors in Adolescents” and is designed to help primary care providers better recognize and manage youth mental health conditions. The webinar addresses screening, diagnosis, and treatment approaches for adolescents experiencing behavioral or mental health challenges, while also exploring strategies to support families and apply mental health screening tools in clinical practice.
Trauma-Informed Parenting Intervention
This virtual seminar explores how trauma and stress can affect parenting within military-connected families and highlights research linking parental trauma, mental health, and child well-being. Participants will learn about Parenting-STAIR, an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to strengthen parent-child relationships and build resilience among military families.
Understanding Depression in Young People
Depression in children and teenagers is often undiagnosed and untreated because symptoms are mistaken for normal emotional changes. Learn what factors contribute to youth depression, common signs and symptoms to watch for, and practical ways caregivers, educators, and professionals can support young people and promote mental well-being.
Resiliency Workshop & Self-Care Toolkit
This workshop focuses on building resilience and developing practical self-care strategies to help individuals navigate life’s challenges. Participants will learn tools that support emotional well-being and help them respond to difficult situations in healthier, more constructive ways.
How To Keep a Relationship Healthy (Even When Life Gets Hard)
Life stressors—from mental health challenges to financial strain or burnout—can test even the healthiest partnerships. Learning to navigate them skillfully can mean the difference between conflict and connection.
Tackling Safety Together
In this session, you’ll learn about safety planning intervention—a simple, evidence-based approach designed to prevent suicide by reducing immediate risks and offering clear, actionable steps to follow during a crisis.
Understanding Antisocial Personality Disorder
Learn about Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), including how it is diagnosed, its impact on relationships, and common misconceptions surrounding this complex mental health condition. This free webinar provides an accessible overview for community members and professionals alike.
Strength-Based Resilience: The Protective Power of Talents and Special Interests
This presentation goes beyond supporting a child’s special interests. It invites parents and educators to consider how an engaged, curious child can strengthen resilience within the family and the broader school community.
Workplace Bullying: Boundaries, Documentation, and Safe Responses
Learn when to engage, when to disengage, and how to make informed decisions about next steps with a licensed therapist
Postpartum Psychosis: Differentiating Delusions from Intrusive Thoughts
Join us for free webinars on Perinatal Mental Health. Participants can expect engaging discussions on evidence-based practice and care.
Texas Together Research Connection: The Suicidal Thoughts and Experiences in Pregnancy and Postpartum Study
Join us for an AFSP Research Connection Program with Dr. Maureen Zalewski, Ph.D., and doctoral student Eric Matsunaga, M.S
More Than a Mood: Unpacking the Misdiagnosis of Mania
Mania can be misunderstood—even by experienced clinicians. It’s often confused with symptoms of trauma, ADHD, substance use, or personality disorders. But when mania is missed or mislabeled, treatment can go off course, delaying recovery and increasing distress.
In this 60-minute session, clinician and educator Kelly Scanlon, LICSW, explores how mania presents, why it’s often misdiagnosed, and what to look for when symptoms overlap with other mental health conditions. Participants will gain both clinical insight and a compassionate perspective on helping patients find the right diagnosis and care.
Why This Training Matters
Bipolar disorder affects millions, yet many individuals spend years without an accurate diagnosis. Mania—one of its defining features—is often overlooked or mistaken for another issue: impulsivity from ADHD, emotional reactivity from trauma, or rapid mood shifts tied to borderline personality disorder.
This training sheds light on how and why misdiagnosis happens, the real-world consequences for patients, and how clinicians can improve diagnostic accuracy through careful assessment, open dialogue, and empathy.
Understanding mania isn’t just about labeling symptoms—it’s about seeing the full human experience beneath them. With awareness and precision, clinicians can prevent unnecessary suffering and guide individuals toward the care they truly need.
What You’ll Learn
How mania manifests across the spectrum—from hypomania to full manic episodes—and how it can be mistaken for other conditions
Overlapping features between mania and disorders such as ADHD, trauma-related disorders, borderline personality disorder, and substance-induced mood changes
How cultural context, stigma, and gender bias contribute to diagnostic confusion
Strategies for improving diagnostic accuracy through collaborative assessment and longitudinal observation
Approaches to compassionate, clear communication that reduce shame and build trust with patients navigating confusing or shifting diagnoses
Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) for Family Partners
Participants can earn up to 4 CEUs for attending each module.