Registration Deadline Extended: July 24th at Midnight
Addressing Student Wellness Through Comprehensive Campus Community Partnerships
By working together, campuses and communities can work smarter – not harder – to best meet student behavioral health care needs. By collectively leveraging campus and community supports and resources, student behavioral health needs can be more effectively met across the continuum of care: from mental health services, AOD use/misuse identification and referral to services to prevention strategies to enhance overall student wellness. This summit will highlight the benefits of building campus community relationships, provide examples of successful campus/community partnership projects, and address potential student wellness impacts with the legalization of cannabis in Ohio.
CEUs will be applied for.
Registration is free.
Agenda Overview
Morning Keynote: Building Strong Campus-Community Partnerships for Student Behavioral Health
Morning Keynote Speaker: Allison Smith, PhD
Explore best practices and key factors in establishing effective campus-community partnerships that address students’ behavioral health needs. This keynote will delve into strategies for reducing stressors on campus systems, ensuring they can meet the growing mental health demands of their student body. Attendees will gain insights into collaborative approaches that foster a supportive environment, promoting overall well-being and resilience among students.
Midday Panel: Campus-Community Partnership Panel Discussion
Midday Panelists: Lakeland Community College: Cassidy Justice, Kenneth Browner, and Lily Elmore; OSU Mansfield: Donna Hight, and Katie Rietler; Miami University: Rebecca Young
Join panelists from Lakeland Community College, Miami University, and OSU Mansfield as they share their experiences with campus-community partnership projects. This discussion will highlight key areas such as focus identification, selecting community partners, incorporating student involvement, and more. Gain valuable insights from their successes and challenges in fostering effective collaborations to enhance campus and community well-being.
Afternoon Speaker: The DEA’s Role in Collegiate Prevention: Leveraging Partnerships and Resources
Afternoon Speaker: Rich Lucey
The DEA has a significant presence in the collegiate prevention space, offering a variety of valuable resources. Rich Lucey will discuss the power of partnerships and collaboration, the DEA’s prevention outreach efforts, and strategies for preparing for disruptions in campus prevention programming. Discover how the DEA can support and enhance your campus initiatives through effective collaboration and resource utilization.
Speakers
Allison Smith, PhD
Over the past decade, Allison has dedicated her career to substance misuse prevention and recovery within higher education. She spent eight impactful years at Louisiana State University before transitioning to her current role at the Louisiana Board of Regents, where she leads and advocates for this critical work.
Addressing diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in prevention programming and recovery within higher education is a consistent passion for Allison. By sharing her own experiences, she helps audiences explore new perspectives and identify collaborative opportunities for mutual success. Her genuine desire to collectively problem-solve drives her commitment to fostering meaningful dialogue and fostering a more just and equitable world.
Combining her love for conversation, collaboration, and pop culture, Allison excels in connecting diverse parties to create innovative yet practical solutions. She approaches challenging conversations with empathy, providing informative and actionable insights that empower positive change.
In addition to her professional pursuits, Allison encourages individuals to embrace their authentic selves and discover and leverage their social capital. She firmly believes in the transformative power of fully expressing one’s true identity and connecting with others to achieve collective goals.
With her extensive experience, unwavering passion for change, and a knack for injecting humor into her presentations, Allison is a dynamic and engaging speaker who will motivate, captivate, and educate your audience. Her aim is to inspire them to take meaningful action and make a lasting impact.
Rich Lucey
Rich Lucey has more than three decades of experience at the state and federal government levels working to prevent alcohol and drug use and misuse among youth and young adults, especially college students. He currently serves as a senior prevention program manager in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Community Outreach and Prevention Support Section. Rich plans and executes educational and public information programs, evaluates program goals and outcomes, and serves as an advisor to the Section Chief and other DEA officials on drug misuse prevention and education programs. Rich formerly served as special assistant to the director for the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and worked as an education program specialist in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Panelists
Lakeland Community College
- Dr. Kenneth Browner, Psychologist
- Lily Elmore, Student
- Cassidy Justice, Student Leader
OSU Mansfield
- Dr. Donna Hight, Assistant Dean, Student Success
- Katie Rietler, OSU Graduate
Miami University
- Rebecca Young, Director of Student Wellness
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