School-based Mental Health ECHO 2025-2026

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 12:00 PM - Thursday, May 21, 2026, 1:15 PM, A Live Webinar

The School-based Mental Health ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) project, a collaboration between the Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing and various school and community partners across California, seeks to enhance the understanding and treatment of pediatric mental health disorders in school environments. This initiative aims to: Improve knowledge of best practices related to school-based mental health. Foster professional connections among healthcare providers and school professionals. Provide clinical guidance to enhance youth mental health within educational settings. Through this collaborative effort, the project aspires to create a supportive network that equips school personnel with the skills and resources necessary to address and manage mental health challenges among students effectively.

Registration is FREE.

Click the Register tab above to begin.

If you registered for last year’s series, your registration has automatically carried over. No need to re-register for this year’s series.

Note: Health professionals, school educators, administrators, and mental health workers, along with community organization staff, are invited to participate in the School-based Mental Health ECHO series.

Schedule:
Sessions will be held from 12:00 - 1:15 PM
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Thursday, April 23, 2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Important Course Information

We are using two separate platforms for different aspects of the program: Cloud CME and iECHO. For your convenience, you have the option to use the same login credentials for both Cloud CME and iECHO, but please remember that the 2 platforms operate separately.

Cloud CME: Registration and Claim CME/CE

iECHO: Join an ECHO session & access course materials

Invitation and Account Setup:

After registering for the ECHO program on Cloud CME, you will receive an invitation via email to set up your iECHO account. Invitations are sent every 1-2 weeks. Please follow the link provided in the email to set up your account and gain access to the program.

Accessing the Session:

The Zoom link to join the session will be sent 1 hour prior to the start time

The webinar sessions will be conducted via Zoom through the iECHO platform. On the day of the session, you can join directly from iECHO. Log in to your iECHO account and navigate to the session. Alternatively, an email containing a direct Zoom link will be sent to you one hour before the scheduled start time of each session. This link will provide you with quick access to the Zoom meeting.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.25 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (1.25 hours), APA Continuing Education credits (1.25 hours), ASWB Continuing Education (ACE) credits (1.25 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.25 hours)

1. Review and integrate varying school mental health models, strategies, and best practices.
2. Cultivate communication skills for productive collaboration in mental health knowledge-sharing and treatment among school-based staff and providers and youth and their families.
3. Engage meaningfully in cross-system dialogue regarding social determinants of health and how best to support the health and wellbeing of youth and their families.
4. Leverage community participation and expertise to improve mental health care for youth in school-based settings.

In support of improving patient care, Stanford Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

Credit Designation 
American Medical Association (AMA) 
Stanford Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 
Stanford Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10 ANCC contact hours.  

ASWB Approved Continuing Education Credit (ACE) – Social Work Credit 
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Stanford Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this activity receive 10 continuing education credits.

American Psychological Association (APA) 
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs. 

Cancellation Policy
Stanford University School of Medicine reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary.

Accessibility Statement
 Stanford University School of Medicine is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

Cultural and Linguistic Competency
The planners and speakers of this CME activity have been encouraged to address cultural issues relevant to their topic area for the purpose of complying with California Assembly Bill 1195. Moreover, the Stanford University School of Medicine Multicultural Health Portal contains many useful cultural and linguistic competency tools including culture guides, language access information and pertinent state and federal laws.  You are encouraged to visit the Multicultural Health Portal: https://laneguides.stanford.edu/multicultural-health

For activity related questions, please contact
     Name: Judith Dauberman, PhD
     Title: Training and Learning Manager, Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing
     Email: [email protected] 

For CME general questions, please contact 
     Email: [email protected]

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Stanford Medicine adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.

There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.

Session Speakers:


Planners
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