Student Mental Health Summit '22

Since its inception back in 2019, MASSP's Student Mental Health Summit has worked with almost 3,000 educators and students in the development of school based resources and programming around this crucial topic. Facilitating this event both in person and in a virtual capacity, allows the most school teams to listen, learn and develop student-centered programming to proactively address the biggest needs of your students and staff.  Regardless of what school looks like in the fall, we will be faced with new educational and personal challenges on the horizon, specifically in regards to student mental health. The SMHS seeks to provide a unique opportunity for building principals, counselors, student leadership advisers and student leaders to come together to discuss and seek solutions for student mental health concerns impacting our schools. 

What Will It Look Like? 

As mentioned above, we have two different conference options for 2022! This year attendees can choose to select from either an in-person conference or a virtual conference - whichever event suites your groups needs and calendars! 

October 7th (in-person)

Hard to beat live programming, especially when discussing such an important topic! Our powerful conference line-up will include 3 concurrent keynote presentations, two full-group think-tank sessions, multiple rounds of school-based programming breakout rooms, our popular "Parade of Ideas" session and a lot more! As we continue to evaluate the needs of our students and staff, what better way to support a healthy environment than learning from some of the best content the state of Michigan has to offer! Check out our agenda below for updated program information. 

October 10th (virtual event)

MASSP’s Virtual Student Mental Health Summit will provide the same impactful content, multiple keynote speakers and dozens of new concepts and programs to take back to your school building. Although nothing can replace in-person content, a virtual program does allow all participants to view every recorded keynote presentation and breakout session as opposed to selecting from a series of concurrent presentations.

Who Should Attend? 

A team from each school inclusive of: Principal, Counselor, Student Leadership Adviser and 3 student leaders. 

Date(s):

• In person Conference: October 7th
• Virtual Event: October 10th

Location:

• October 7th: The Lansing Center, 333 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
• October 10th: Virtual Event

Quick Agenda

Data Trends and School Assessment Survey
Kevin Fischer: Student Mental Health trends by the numbers

Parade of Ideas!
Student and educator panel sharing the best of the best for student mental health ideas and programming

Concurrent Keynote Sessions

• Dr. Suzanne Button, The JED Foundation

• Anne Moss Rogers, The Emotionally Naked Speaker

• Betsy Wierda, Neuroscience of Wellness 

Mental Health Summit Breakout Topics
Break out those school assessment surveys and identify which focus areas your school plans to focus on for the 2022-23 school year. This document will serve as your roadmap for selecting which breakout sessions your team plans to attend live and which ones can be viewed at a later time. 

A call for presentations will go out seeking schools with programming in place to share their best practice on the following topics:

• Community Resources & Support Networks
• Stress Release, Mindfulness and School/life Balance
• Effects of Digital Media
• Supporting Students with Chronic Health Issues
• Supporting Students with a Mental Illness Diagnosis
• Depression/Anxiety
• Suicide Awareness and Responsiveness
• Trauma Informed Schools/ACES programming
• Addiction: Indicators and Prevention

Have a great school program or topic to share? We want to hear from you! 

Call for Presenter Form (Seeking Both Middle Level and High School Submissions)

Registration & Cost

Don't wait! Registration is first come, first serve and will remain open until September 23rd at 3:00 p.m. or once we hit maximum venue capacity. Schools are allowed to register teams comprised inclusive of: Principal, Counselor, Student Leadership Adviser and 3 student leaders. Schools are allowed to register more than 1 team if they plan on registering more than 6 total attendees. MASSP/MASC/MAHS will invoice schools for the total number of teams registered. This form must be completed by a staff member advising the group.  The cost for registration is outlined below

October 7th: In-person conference (9:00am-3:30pm)
Location: The Lansing Center, 333 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
Investment: $899

• Team Registration: $899 per team (6 total educators/students, savings of $50 per person!) 
• Add additional team members for $149 per person
• Individual Registration: $199 per person 

Schools are allowed to register teams comprised of up to (6) educators and students. Schools are allowed to register more than 1 team if they plan on registering more than (6) total educators and students. 

October 10th: Virtual Conference (9:00am-2:00pm)
Location: Your home, office or school building!
Investment: $399 per team (6 total educators/students) | $99 for individual registration 

Schools are allowed to register teams comprised of up to (6) educators and students. Schools are allowed to register more than 1 team if they plan on registering more than (6) total educators and students. 

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