Youth Voices on Mental Health: Summer, School, and What Comes Next
Join us for a virtual youth mental health webinar featuring a panel of young advocates who will share their perspectives and experiences on mental health, prevention, and youth leadership. The discussion will explore strategies for supporting youth well-being during the summer months and navigating the challenging transition back to school.
Learning Objectives:
During this webinar, participants will:
- Hear directly from engaged young people about their experiences with mental health during the summer and during the challenging back-to-school transition; participants will gain fresh perspectives from those who know best.
- Discover practical, engaging ways to support young people through seasonal changes. Youth will share tools and approaches that young advocates say make a positive difference in their lives.
- Explore what meaningful youth leadership in mental health can look like and how to foster that same leadership in your own community
Essential Details:
Cost: Free
Location: Teams Webinar
CEUs: Prevention CEUs will be applied for
Meet the Speaker
Sridevi Swaminathan | Student, Direct Medicine, University of Akron
Sridevi Swaminathan is a current freshman at the University of Akron in a direct medicine program with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine with the hopes of breaking stigmas of medicine. She’s been passionate about community, addiction, and mental health medicine from a young age after seeing substances impact her peers’ potential. She became a state-recognized substance abuse advocate, speaking at advocacy days for the University of Michigan. In February of 2025, she had the honor of being flown out to the nation’s capital for the annual CADCA-SAMHSA conference. Here, she lobbied with US legislators and Senator Gary Peters for controlled health policy regarding youth substance abuse. Currently, she is working with a local coalition and has created development activities for at-risk youth in Detroit and finished a council term with the University of Michigan Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN), where she created substance abuse prevention content that is on track to be published throughout Michigan.
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