The University of Connecticut is proud to sponsor an invitation-only mental health symposium, Critical Connections: Fostering Cross-Functional Conversations on Student Mental Health. Its focus will be on creating a dialogue between institutional leaders and mental health practitioners that explores the effect of mental health issues on student success.

Three core issues will be addressed via keynote speakers, panels, and cross-functional conversations:  Substance Abuse and Recovery in College  Emotional Resilience and College Preparedness  Race, Identity and Mental Health

This conference brings together leading experts on student mental health with the goal of creating cross-functional, interdisciplinary conversations that foster integration, and collaboration. These critical connections will help to bridge the gaps in best practices across departments, and between campuses and private/public agencies, and will be the foundation for creating a comprehensive approach to student mental health.

Please RSVP by January 25, 2017 using the link at http://shs.uconn.edu/mh-symposium

PRESIDENTIAL DINNER: Monday, February 13, 2017 Society Room: 31 Pratt Street, Hartford, CT 06103, Phone: 860-524-0796 6:00 p.m. Check-in

6:30 -7:00 p.m. Welcome and Dinner University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst Adam Green, PhD, Associate Professor of American History at the University of Chicago 7:30 p.m. "Accessibility and College Mental Health" Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, PhD, Director, College Mental Health Program, McLean's Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Hilton Hartford Hotel: 315 Trumbull Street, Hartford, CT, 06103, Phone: 860-728-5151 (FAX: 860-240-7247) 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. Keynote: “Trends in Collegiate Mental Health” Ben Locke, PhD, Director, Center for Collegiate Mental Health, Penn State University Critical trends in college mental health, based upon Center for Collegiate Mental Health data sets. 10:15-10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. Panel: Substance Abuse and Addiction - focusing on trends in abuse and addiction in higher education, and best practice models of intervention/prevention that are relevant across campus functional areas.  John Kelly, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University  David Greenfield, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor, UConn School of Medicine, Founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Luncheon - Facilitated conversations

1:00 p.m. Keynote/Interactive Workshop "Creating an Revolution on Our College Campuses" Marc Brackett, PhD, Director, Yale Center for

2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Break 2:45 – 4:15 p.m. Panel: Race Matters - focusing on the impact of racism on mental health, university-wide impact of race, and access to support and services.  Victor Schwartz, MD, Medical Director, Jed Foundation  Monnica Williams, PhD, UConn Department of Psychological Sciences  Jonathan W. Kanter, PhD, Director, Center for the Science of , Department of , University of Washington

4:15-4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks Adam Green, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of American History at the University of Chicago. He received his BA from The University of Chicago (1985) and his Ph.D. from (1998). He teaches and research in a variety of fields, including twentieth century U.S. history, African American history, urban history, cultural studies and social movements. He has written and co-edited two books: Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Univ. of Chicago Press: 2006); Time Longer than Rope: Studies in African American Activism, 1850-1950, co- edited with Charles Payne (New York University Press: 2003). His current book research deals with the history of the black struggle for , and he is developing several articles projects dealing with segregation, police torture, and post-1970 culture and society in Black Chicago.

Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, Ph.D., is the Director of the College Mental Health Program at McLean Hospital and an instructor in Psychology in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. She has over 25 years of experience in college student mental health treatment, administration, and policy. She is the founding director of McLean Hospital’s College Mental Health Program, a unique initiative serving students from over 200 institutions of higher education, providing student-focused treatment; consultation to students, parents, and college professionals; and related research. Dr. Pinder-Amaker lectures and conducts workshops throughout the country on strengthening continuity of care, and on how to bolster communication between campus- and community-based systems, eliminate barriers to mental health treatment, and better support marginalized students. She has served as guest editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry’s special issue on college student mental health, and has published on the integration of student concerns into traditional models of care.

Ben Locke, Ph.D., is the Associate Director for Clinical Services at Penn State’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Collegiate Mental Health (CCMH) – a practice/research network of over 380 counseling centers, and an affiliate faculty member in Counseling and Clinical Psychology departments at Penn State University. Dr. Locke presents and consults widely about college student mental health in higher education and has published dozens of peer reviewed articles on the topic. Dr. Locke has over 19 years of clinical experience in a wide variety of mental health settings including wilderness therapy, psychiatric hospitals, group homes, community mental health, and college counseling centers.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. His grant-funded research focuses on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, relationship quality, wellbeing, performance, and organizational climate. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence- based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 1000 public, charter, and private schools across the United States and in other countries, including Australia, England, Italy, Mexico, and Spain. RULER infuses emotional intelligence into the fabric of a school through training for school leaders, educators and staff, students, and families, and has been shown to enhance wellbeing, academic performance, and school climate. Dr. Brackett has published over 100 scholarly articles and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Joseph E. Zins award for his research on emotional intelligence in schools. His research is featured regularly in popular media, including the New York Times, Time Magazine, and National Public Radio. Dr. Brackett regularly consults with school systems and companies around the world, including Schwab and Goldman Sachs, and for the last four years he has worked with Facebook to develop tools that help adults and children develop emotional intelligence and resolve online conflict. He also holds a 5th degree black belt in Hapkido, a Korean martial art. John F. Kelly, Ph.D., is the Elizabeth R. Spallin Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Addiction Medicine at Harvard Medical School - the first endowed Professorship in the field of addiction medicine at Harvard. He is also the founder and Director of the Recovery Research Institute at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the Program Director of the Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) and the Associate Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at MGH. Dr. Kelly is President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Society of Addiction Psychology, and is also a Fellow of APA. He has served as a consultant to U.S. federal agencies such as the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the national Institutes of Health (NIH); to non-Federal institutions, such as the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation; and internationally to foreign governments. He is currently an Associate Editor for the journals, Addiction, and the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and chapters in the field of addiction. His clinical and research work has focused on addiction treatment and the recovery process which has included specific research on the effectiveness of mutual-help groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, as adjuncts to formal care. His additional research endeavors have focused on the translation and implementation of evidence-based practice, addiction and criminal justice, addiction treatment theories and mechanisms of action, and reducing stigma associated with addiction. He is a licensed clinical psychologist actively working with individuals and families with alcohol and other drug use disorders.

David N. Greenfield, Ph.D., is the founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction (virtual-addiction.com) and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading voices on Internet, computer, and digital media behavior, and a pioneer concerning compulsive and addictive use. He is the author of the Virtual Addiction, which rang an early warning bell with tech overuse when it came out in 1999. Dr. Greenfield lectures to public and medical/psychiatric groups throughout the world, and has appeared numerous times on CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Early Show, Fox News, The O’Reilly Report, Anderson Cooper, and NBC News, and HBO. His work has also been featured in U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, Newsweek, People, Time, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Economist, and numerous other popular publications. He is widely credited with popularizing the variable ratio reinforcement schedule of Internet use and abuse and the dopamine/tech use connection … a topic he was discussing in the late 90s. Dr. Greenfield’s recent research and clinical work is focused on why digital technologies are abused, how we can achieve balanced use of digital technology, the neurobiology of compulsive Internet use, and most recently on compulsive smartphone use. He is the author of numerous professional journal articles and book chapters on Internet, computer, and digital behavior. Dr. Greenfield recently released the education DVD: Raising Generation D: A Guide for Parents Raising Children in the Digital Age. Dr. Greenfield earned his PhD in Counseling Psychology, including a minor in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy, from Texas Tech University. He earned his MA in College and Community Counseling from New York University and his BA in Psychology from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Dr. Greenfield is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) I & II as well as Energy Medicine and Energy Healing from the Institute for Healing Arts and Sciences in Bloomfield, Connecticut. He is a fellow and past-president of the Connecticut Psychological Association and a member of American Society for Addiction Medicine, and The Sexual Medicine Society of North America. He resides in Connecticut.

Victor Schwartz, M.D., has over 25 years of experience as a psychiatrist working in college mental health. He was medical director of NYU’s Counseling Service, established a counseling center at Yeshiva University where he subsequently served as the University Dean of Students. He was an original member of the American Psychiatric Association’s Presidential Task Force on College Mental Health, co-chair of the APA working group on legal issues in college mental health and is an APA Distinguished Life Fellow. Victor was a co-chair of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Committee on the College Student and has served as an advisor to Active Minds on Campus and Gun Free Kids. He is co-editor with Dr. Jerald Kay, of Mental Health Care in the College Community (Wiley, 2010). Victor received a B.A. from Yeshiva College, earned his M.D. from SUNY Downstate Medical College and completed his Residency in Psychiatry at NYU Medical Center-Bellevue Hospital. Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor at the University of Connecticut in the department of Psychological Sciences. Prior to joining the faculty at UConn, she was an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and director of the Center for Mental Health Disparities at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Williams completed her undergraduate studies at MIT and UCLA. She received her Master's and Doctoral Degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia, where she conducted research in the areas of psychopathology, tests and measurement, and ethnic differences. She completed her clinical internship at McGill University Health Centre, Montreal General Hospital Site, where she completed rotations in mood disorders, major mental illness, and sexual identity issues. Dr. Williams has published over 75 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, focused on -related disorders and cultural differences. She has served on the board of directors of the Delaware Valley Association of Black Psychologists, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Main Line chapter, NAMI Louisville, and the OC Foundation of California. She is currently a member of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) Scientific Advisory Board, the Anxiety and Association of America (ADAA), the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), where she serves as the Special Group (SIG) leader for African Americans in Behavioral Therapy. She is an associate editor of the Behavior Therapist and serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has been awarded federal and local grants to conduct psychological research. Dr. Williams is the clinical director of the Behavioral Wellness Clinic in Louisville, KY, which serves adults and families with OCD, PTSD, and anxiety disorders. She supervises licensed clinicians and clinical trainees and regularly provides trainings for other mental health providers. She also consults with organizations to address diversity issues and improve cultural competence.

Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D., received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Washington in 2002. Shortly afterwards he became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In Milwaukee, Dr. Kanter spent several years collaborating closely with members of the Black community on issues of social and political activism (including police brutality and voter rights), racism and discrimination, mental health stigma, and culturally appropriate treatments of depression. Dr. Kanter also spent several years working closely with Latino researchers and community members to develop culturally informed treatments for depression in Latino community settings for low-income Latino immigrants. Dr. Kanter also worked closely with members of the Muslim community in the United Kingdom on Islam-consistent approaches to depression treatment. His lab consisted of a multi-cultural team of committed student researchers working on individual and collective projects. In 2013, Dr. Kanter came to the University of Washington to direct the Center for the Science of Social Connection (CSSC). As Director, he brings a wealth of experience working in the trenches with people of color and disenfranchised groups as a team member, as well as working with scholars and scientists internationally. Dr. Kanter is regularly invited to give talks and workshops nationally and internationally on topics of interest to the Center, including anti-racism workshops which seek to help white people grow and overcome racism, workshops for therapists on how to improve psychotherapy relationships and help clients with relational problems, and behavioral treatments for depression. Scientifically, Dr. Kanter approaches projects with a contextual behavioral science model that integrates disciplines, including evolution science, neuroscience, anthropology and psychology, within a behavioral science foundation. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Gwynne Kohl, who is also a clinical psychologist, and their 11-year-old daughter Zoe.