2017 Spring Conference


April 23, 2024 | Conference Archive

April 23, 24, and 25, 2017 | Duluth Entertainment Convention Center | Duluth, MN

Back by popular demand, the 21st Annual Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference featured the premiere of three completely new Fidgety Fairy Tales Mental Health Musicals: The Three Little Pigs (anxiety), Humpty Dumpty (trauma), and The Ugly Duckling (bullying).  

Keynote speakers ni 2017 were Dr. Ann S. Masten, PhD, LP, and Erin Walsh, MA.  

Dr. Masten presented “Promoting Resilience in Children’s Mental Health Practice,” which highlighted advances, at the time, in resilience science that had important implications for practitioners. 

Walsh presented, “It’s Complicated: Children, Social Media, and Mental Health,” using brain science, stories, and humor to explain how technology was changing at the time and the ways that children grow up, socialize, and forge their identities.