Presenters: Teresa Gomez, MA, Jennifer Nanez, LMSW, Jeremiah Simmons, PhD
Learning Objectives:

• Examine the unique mental health challenges, strengths, and cultural needs of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) youth, families, and communities, including the role of family structure and dynamics in youth suicidality.
• Discuss the protective role of culture and resilience in healing Indigenous youth and how the YMHFA for Tribal Communities aligns with their histories, experiences, and values.
• Identify and apply at least three strength-based and culturally adapted suicide prevention practices relevant to individual, family, and community contexts.
• Select and utilize culturally appropriate resources, including AIAN-specific and California-based suicide prevention tools, to support Native youth and their communities.
• Describe the function of the 988 Tribal Response and list three practical, family-centered approaches for supporting Indigenous youth experiencing suicidality.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Tara Ford, JD, Kate Turek, MFT, MS
Learning Objectives:

• Identify at least four key special education rights related to students with mental health conditions in schools.
• List two federal laws that protect students with disabilities.
• List at least two practical approaches for helping families and students advocate for what students need in school.
• Construct a more mindful power dynamic in an Individualized Education Program (IEP), implementing equitable language.
• Produce a safe space for families to share insights, ideas, and their own personal lived experiences.
• Prioritize a strength-based approach to communication with families.
• Understand the cultural perspective of families with students who have an IEP.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Apurva Bhatt, MD, Christina Cruz, PsyD
Learning Objectives:

• Explain the differences between educational terms and medical diagnoses for ADHD.
• Describe the process of psychiatric assessment and medication management for ADHD.
• Discuss commonly used medications in ADHD, including side effects to watch out for.
• Recognize how physical activities and cultural connectivity can improve attention and learning for American Indian and Alaska Native youth.
• List practical therapeutic approaches for working with Native youth presenting clinically with ADHD.
• Acquire new knowledge in understanding ADHD within an American Indian and Alaska Native cultural context.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 1.00

Presenters: Claradina Soto, PhD, MPH, Steven Sust, MD
Learning Objectives:

• Discuss how to engage American Indian youth and young adolescents in the development of prevention interventions.
• Describe the motivations for co-using commercial tobacco and cannabis among American Indian youth and young adolescents.
• Recognize psychiatric comorbidities that could pre-date initial diagnosis of Substance Use Disorder (SUD)​.
• List two to three methods of screening for youth SUD​.
• Acquire new knowledge regarding cultural and psychosocial stressors affecting psychiatric and SUD that requires close collaboration between clinicians, schools, parents, and children​.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Steven Adelsheim, MD, Dan Calac, MD
Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the concept and components of clinical high risk and early psychosis programs.
• List three practical therapeutic approaches for working with youth presenting clinically with early psychosis.
• Acquire new knowledge in understanding early psychosis within an American Indian and Alaska Native cultural context.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Steven Sust, MD, Shoshoni Gensaw-Hostler, MA, AMFT
Learning Objectives:

• Describe how lifelong disparities are determined by social, behavioral and economic factors.
• List 3 practical therapeutic interventions working with youth presenting clinically with adverse experiences.
• Advocate for clients experiencing toxic stress in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Linda Lotspeich, MD, Jeremiah Simmons, PhD
Learning Objectives:

• Identify the 3 core characteristics of the autism spectrum.
• Provide families with resources to support their children with autism.
• Identify cultural differences in identification, acceptance, and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
• Evaluate how culturally-centered community-based approaches may improve early intervention efforts for families.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Rose Steele, Steve Sust, MD
Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the protective nature of early engagement in culture and how the integration of cultural perspective in primary care clinics can promote resilience.
• Acquire an understanding of how the integration of cultural practitioners into tribal clinics can assist clinicians in addressing Eating Disorders.
• Recognize attitudes/statements that affect youth body image and positivity.
• Identify Eating Disorder screening and intervention methods in primary care settings.
• Acquire new knowledge regarding cultural and psychosocial stressors affecting Eating Disorders that requires close collaboration between clinicians, schools, parents, and children.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.75

Presenters: Kiana Mallet, MPA, LCSW, Shoshani Gensaw-Hostler, AMFT
Learning Objectives:

• Apply new traditional wellness and relationship building skills to better serve Native American youth.
• Acquire new knowledge and understanding of traditional practitioners currently working within mental health system.
• Describe the complexities of weaving traditional practices into current mental health practices.

CME/CE Credits Offered: 0.50