Climate crises, COVID-19, mass shootings, the prevalence and effects of lethal drugs like fentanyl, a polarized political environment, among so many other issues cause anxiety, depression, and toxic stress for this generation of youth. Left unaddressed, we face an entire generation growing up with unresolved trauma, anxiety, and depression that will be passed on to future generations.

Save the date and join us on Friday, May 19, 2023, for an engaging and enlightening virtual panel discussion with adolescent mental health experts to address solutions to the question: How can we restore hope and resilience in our youth?

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Our panel of experts includes

Elizabeth Allured, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and educator at Suffolk Institute who teaches clinicians and the public about the interface of the climate crisis and mental health. 
Anne E. Brodsky, PhD, Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses her teaching, research, administrative work, and practice on resilience, psychological sense of community, social justice, and the role of communities in creating and resisting societal risks and oppressions, including violence, poverty, racism, and sexism.
Susan Clayton, PhD, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology at the College of Wooster in Ohio, examines people’s relationship with the natural environment, how it is socially constructed, how a healthy relationship with nature can be promoted, and how climate change can threaten mental health.
Faria Tavacoli (she/they) is a public health major at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and in leadership roles in a variety of mental health initiatives. She has worked with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, Mental Health America, and Futures Without Violence on programming that increases awareness of mental health resources while increasing kindness and bravery in young people.
Mark Cloutier became CEO of Caminar on January 31, 2019. Mark has dedicated his career to increasing access to quality health and supportive services for underserved communities and improving the overall health and well-being of individuals and families. He brings to Caminar extensive experience in organizational leadership, fundraising, financial and talent management, public policy, and strategy development. Prior to joining Caminar, Mark held leadership roles in major health organizations and foundations, including Horizons Services, the San Francisco Foundation, the Center for Youth Wellness, Kaiser Family Foundation, and San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
As CEO, Mark leads a $42M organization of close to 500 employees that served more than 18,000 people last year in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.
A longstanding Bay Area resident, Mark is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College and earned his Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Health degrees at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored a number of articles and recently co-authored “Prevent, Screen, Heal: Collective Action to Fight the Toxic Effects of Early Life Adversity.”
Mark also serves on the Board of Directors of Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.
Rob Waters is the founding editor of MindSite News, a nonprofit digital journalism site dedicated exclusively to reporting on mental health. Waters is an award-winning journalist who has worked as a staff reporter or editor at Bloomberg News, Time Inc. Health and the Psychotherapy Networker. He was a contributing writer to Health Affairs and his articles have also appeared in the Washington Post, Kaiser Health News, STAT, the  Atlantic.com, Mother Jones, and many other outlets.