Improving behavioral health strategies for youth in public settings is the focus of the Nov. 15 presentation in the Innovation and Outreach Speaker Series.
The presentation is being hosted by WSU Vancouver and features Eric Bruns, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine who will discuss the array of real world strategies that are being innovated and applied in public child-serving systems. Bruns serves as director of the UW Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team, co-director of the National Wraparound Initiative and of the Washington State Children’s Mental Health Evience Based Practice Institute, and associate director of the UW School Mental Health Assessment, Research and Training Center.
The event is set to begin with a reception from 4-4:45 p.m. Nov. 15, followed by Bruns’ lecture from 4:50-6 p.m. at Dengerink Building 110 on the WSU Vancouver campus. AMS viewing is available.
Bruns will highlight examples from Washington state and nationally that focus on strategies such as school-based mental health as an opportunity to intervene across the public health continuum; efficient, transdiagnostic interventions for youth in systems such as juvenile justice, mental health, and child welfare; and wraparound care coordination for youth with the most complex needs.
He’s led multiple federally-funded projects aimed at defining and evaluating impact of prevention, school-based intervention, and intensive care coordination models, and collaborates extensively with WSU Vancouver faculty and community behavioral health partners.
This will be the final presentation in the fall schedule for the series.
The spring schedule is being developed.
The speaker series is a recommendation from WSU’s external review of innovation and entrepreneurship activities at its campuses statewide. It is another in a series of activities that support WSU’s “Drive to 25” initiative to become one of the nation’s top 25 public research universities by 2025, and WSU’s commitment to developing innovations for the prosperity of the state of Washington and beyond.
The speaker series and other recommendations also support WSU’s role as a designated Innovation and Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. The designation recognizes WSU’s efforts to support regional economic development and community engagement.
Follow the links to learn more about the findings and recommendations and WSU’s designation as an Innovation and Prosperity University.