Presentations
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2026 Presentations
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Section
Title
Track
The PBIS Framework: Your Vehicle for Academic And Social Health
Pre-Conference Session
Strengthening School Safety
Pre-Conference Session
Pre-Conference Session
Pre-Conference Session
Main Stage
Breakout Session
Breakout Session
Pre-Conference Session
Breakout Session
Breakout Session
Breakout Session
Breakout Session
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Breakout Session
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Breakout Session
Main Stage
Breakout Session
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Breakout Session
2025 Presentations
Tuesday, September 9th, 2025
Section
Title
Track
NAMI New Hampshire Connect
Pre-Conference Session
School Safety – Building and Sustaining Behavioral Intervention Teams
Pre-Conference Session
School Safety – AVAP Preconference
Pre-Conference Session
School Safety – Educational Resilience
Pre-Conference Session
Supporting Educator Wellness
Pre-Conference Session
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Changing Lives Just As You Are: Our Emotional Intelligence At Heart
Main Stage
Understanding Values Through Interactive Activity
Breakout Session
Strengthening Partnerships for Student Success: Centering Family, Student, and Community Voices
Breakout Session
Turning Insight Into Action: Reviewing Programs to Meet Student Needs
Breakout Session
Sustaining Rural School Mental Health: A Community-Driven Model for Engagement and Workforce Development
Breakout Session
Supporting Educator Wellness: Practical Strategies for Building Resilience in Ourselves and Our Communities
Breakout Sessions
School Leader “Look Fors” after a Crisis Prevention Training
Breaking the Silence: An Introduction to Eating Disorders
PBIS 101: What, Why, and How?
Breakout Session
Local Emergency Planning Committee and School Resilience
Beyond Labels: A Collective Approach to Addressing Bullying Behavior
Journey to Prevention: The Growth & Impact of Sources of Strength in LKSD
Safe Homes, Safe Students: Talking with Families About Suicide Prevention
Breakout Session
Teaming Together: School Psychologists as Mental Health Professionals to Support Safety and Well-Being in Schools
Breakout Session
Understanding, Preventing & Responding to Child Sexual Abuse and Mandated Reporting
Main Stage
Thursday, September 11th, 2025
Qinuucaraq/Calm Manners
Main Stage
Thriving Students, Thriving Schools: Elevating Academic Achievement Through Health Advocacy
Breakout Session
The Inaugural Alaska Mental Health in Schools Community of Practice: Reflections from the First Year
Breakout Session
Naloxone Administration Training
Navigating the Stormy Seas of Youth Vaping and its Impact on Youth Mental Health: It Takes All Hands on Deck
Making PBIS Work in Small Schools
Ending the Silence
Breakout Session
YRBS and School Health Profiles
Pulaaluta/Travel the Yuuyaaraq Path to Learning
Physical Activity and Nutrition: Programs and policies to support student success
School Climate: Understanding results through community engagement
Invisible Injuries, Lasting Impacts: Uncovering Brain Injury in Students to Support School Success
When Kids Feel Safe to Speak: The Power of Anonymous Reporting
Friday, September 12th, 2025
Absenteeism
Post-Conference Session
Alaska Safe Children’s Act
Post-Conference Session
Partnering with Families on SEL
Post-Conference Session
Safe Homes, Safe Students: Talking with Families About Suicide Prevention
Post-Conference Session
2024 Presentations
Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Section
Title
Track
Rural District Health Workshop — Strategies to Implement the Safe Children’s Act and Meet the Healthcare Needs of Students
Breakout Session
Making a Difference: Positively Impacting the Future of our Youth
Breakout Session
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
We Are Each Other’s Anchors: Trauma Informed & Grief Attuned School Systems Leadership for Crisis Recovery & Renewal
Main Stage
Leading with Steadiness in Times of Unsteadiness (Part 1)
Breakout Session
Protecting Our Students: Understanding the Harms of Tobacco and Vaping AND Youth Nicotine Use, Impacts on Mental Health, and Ways to Help
Breakout Session
Introducing the Alaska Mental Health in Schools Community of Practice
Breakout Session
Partnering with Families and Communities to Keep Kids Safe through Secure Gun Storage
Breakout Session
School-Based Family Resource Centers AND Meaningful Family Night – Linking to Learning and Building Connections
Breakout Sessions
Trauma-Informed Resilience Training
Leading with Steadiness in Times of Unsteadiness (Part 2)
Farm to School for Children’s Well Being
Breakout Session
Protective Factors and Cultural Protective Factors
TAT: Threat Assessment and SEL Tier 3 Intervention
Exploring Implementation of Trauma-Engaged Practices in Alaska Schools
Meeting the Needs of Alaska Students by Using from YRBS and School Health Profiles
Breakout Session
Turning the Tide: Implementing School Empowerment Strategies in Chronic Absence and Community Engagement
Breakout Session
All Hands on Deck: School-Community Partnerships Enhance Student Wellbeing
Main Stage
Finding Our Anchors: The Relationship Between Psychological Safety and Positive School Outcomes
Main Stage
Thursday, September 26th, 2024
UA School Partnerships and Programs
Main Stage
Substance Misuse in Alaska: What’s New and How Do We Respond to Youth in Schools?
Breakout Session
Protective Childhood Experiences: What Do They Mean For Our Health?
Breakout Session
From Hating School to Loving Wisdom: Why Education Needs Philosophy in Alaska
Trauma Engaged School Policy: Statewide and at Your School
Enhancing Student Support Systems: Collaborative Strategies for School Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors and Administration
Different Abilities: Inclusion and Accommodations
Breakout Session
Managing “Challenging” Behaviors In-the-Moment: Self-Advocacy & Shifting to a Preventative Framework
Supporting Student Nutrition and Physical Activity: Local and National Resources
Partnering with Families to Make Homes Safer for Students at Risk of Suicide: Lethal Means Reduction to Keep Loved Ones Safe
Leveraging ESEA Federal Funds to Support Student Health and Safety
Tackling Chronic Absenteeism by Using Data to Generate Conversations That Matter
Building Trauma-Engaged Schools with PBIS: A Collaborative Approach
Friday, September 27th, 2024
Building and Maintaining Restorative Communities
Breaking Session
Threat Assessment Teams
Breakout Session
Alaska Blanket Exercise
Breakout Session