NAMI Nevada Mental Health Conference Speaker Form 2026

When: November 19th, 2026

Where: Reno, Nevada Location TBD

Dignity in Crisis: Respect over Punishment for Youth

NAMI Nevada is seeking dynamic presenters for its upcoming Mental Health Conference: Dignity in Crisis – Respect over Punishment for Youth. This year’s event will gather professionals, advocates, families, and individuals with lived experience to share ideas and strategies for supporting youth with dignity and compassion during times of crisis. NAMI Nevada is especially inviting school counselors, administrators, juvenile probation officers, behavioral health professionals, social workers, psychologists, community advocates, youth service providers and law enforcement partners to contribute their expertise. Presenters will have the opportunity to highlight effective practices, research and personal experiences that promote respectful, trauma-informed and relationship-centered approaches to helping young people thrive across all systems of care.

Topic Ideas:

1. School-Based Challenges: Early Responses and Their Impact on Youth Pathways

Exploring behavioral concerns, detentions, suspensions and how early school interventions shape later system involvement.

2. Juvenile System Touchpoints: Navigating Barriers and Unmet Needs

Examining probation, detention, juvenile court and mental health court and where youth and families encounter gaps in support.

3. Family and Caregiver Engagement: Strengthening Support Through Crisis and Complexity

Understanding what families need when navigating crises, behavioral health challenges, or complex diagnoses.

4. Youth and Young Adult Lived Experience: Illuminating System Strengths and Gaps

Creating opportunities for peers and young adults to share stories that reveal both challenges and successes across systems.

5. Compassion in Crisis: Increasing Dignity in Nevada’s Youth Crisis System

Understanding the underlying factors driving repeated behaviors—trauma exposure, unmet mental health needs and neurodevelopmental conditions—and how systems can respond with dignity and compassion.

6. Opportunities for Doing Things Differently: Advancing Respect, Relationship, and Trauma-Responsive Practice

Highlighting strategies that promote respect, listening, relational approaches and trauma‑responsive practices across all youth‑serving systems.

Proposals must be submitted using the form below by Friday, April 17, 2026.

Questions? Please contact

Crystal@naminevada.org

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While not required at this stage, we encourage you to include a CV or résumé to help us better understand your background. Please email this completed form and the following documents to crystal@naminevada.org

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2. If selected as a presenter, you will be asked to provide a professional headshot photo for the online platform (.jpg or .png) and a disclosure statement to be completed and signed.

2026 NAMI Nevada Annual Mental Health Conference Speaker Registration Form