As families head back to school, parents often wonder how to best support their child’s mental health and well-being. Explore the continuum of mental health, typical development, common mental health challenges, and how to recognize when your child may need additional support. This event is virtual, free to attend, and open to the public.
Free and open to the public! In partnership with Operation Parent, this webinar offers a powerful combination of clinical expertise and lived experience to help adults better understand youth mental health. A licensed therapist and a young adult speaker will share real-life insights into how anxiety, depression, trauma, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts often show up in kids and teens. You'll learn how to recognize early warning signs, respond with empathy, and start honest, stigma-free conversations that build trust. Grounded in trauma-informed care, this session offers practical tools to support emotional regulation, coping, and connection—at home, in school, and beyond.
Minding Your Mind invites GSA students and the educators who support them for a dynamic, heart-centered workshop designed to introduce Generation Queer, a new young adult nonfiction book by Kimm Topping that highlights the stories of 30 LGBTQIA+ youth activists making change through art, organizing, and advocacy.
Parents & Teens, please join us virtually on 10/18 @8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT for this important conversation about anxiety + depression. Morgan will speak about social media and teen mental health with MYM Clinical Director Sheila Gillin providing insight into what drives teens to negative coping and destructive behaviors and how parents can help. You don't have to be in California or a military family to join, this is open to anyone able to attend. Thank you San Diego Military Family Collaborative for hosting this event and including Minding Your Mind!
The pandemic has created many challenges for all of us, especially our children. With the rise in mental health issues as they (and we!) experience re-entry into a new "normal" while still grappling with ongoing pandemic impact, let's talk about ways to support and strengthen the physical and emotional well-being of our children. Sheila Gillin, Clinical Director at Minding Your Mind, will facilitate the conversation. This informal discussion will be broad and open, a true conversation—come with any questions, concerns, or hopes that you want to discuss with other parents!
Miami Dade County Public Schools presents Minding Your Mind and Kevin Hines for a virtual webinar on mental health and suicide prevention. One of the key faces of Youth Mental Health First Aid, Kevin Hines—award winning brain/mental health and suicide prevention activist, entrepreneur, multiple award-winning filmmaker, best-selling author, international educator, and speaker—will share his story of an unlikely survival and his strong will to live.
Understanding Anxiety & Suicide in the COVID-19 Era. Jon Mattleman from Minding Your Mind will offer a timely presentation on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, and will offer parents real-time strategies they can use now. This event is virtual, free, and open to the public.
Strike Out the Stigma, presented by Kitay Law Group, is a Philadelphia Phillies Community Outreach initiative, in conjunction with Minding Your Mind, focused on bringing important conversations to the forefront about the value of healthy life habits, supporting those around us, and removing the negative stigma surrounding mental health. In honor of Women's History Month, please join us for an important conversation: Stresses and Expectations of Being a Woman in the Workplace.
Technology has become more and more important for teens and tweens over the last year, but not just for learning. What allows youth to remain connected and informed can also increase feelings of anxiety and depression and lead to using negative coping skills and substance use. Join presenter Jon Mattleman and youth speaker Morgan H. for a presentation about these connections and how to support a culture of wellness
related to technology usage.
Hosted virtually by Phillies Ambassador Scott Palmer, in conjunction with Minding Your Mind, this month will be a conversation about the importance of cultural and self-identity. Panelists include: Kenny Johnson- Phillies Community Engagement, Dr. George James- CIO, Senior Staff Therapist at Council for Relationships, Jordan Burnham- Minding Your Mind, Brittani Shields- Phillies Communications Representative. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Join Jon Mattleman and young adult speaker Wes for a virtual program discussing the signs and symptoms of the mental health issues most prevalent in adolescents through young adulthood. Wes will add his personal story to illustrate the information presented by Jon. Following the presentation, there will be a Q&A with Jon and Wes.
Minding Your Mind young adult speaker Jordan Burnham will be […]