GWI: Equity in Action - How Can Schools Improve AAPI Adolescents’ Mental Health?

This seminar will explore specific mental health stressors, review compelling data, and offer practical resources and actionable tools you can use to better support and advocate for the mental health of AAPI students. This seminar is part of NACAC's GWI: Equity in Action seminar series: a year-long extension of NACAC’s Guiding the Way to Inclusion, DEI-focused conference that furthers NACAC’s mission to support counseling professionals in their work to make a postsecondary education accessible to an ever-changing, diverse body of students.

The basics 

• Intended audience: Secondary counseling and postsecondary admission professionals. 
• Cost: $75 for NACAC members, $125 for nonmembers. 
• Estimated completion time: 90 minutes. 
• Upon completion: A completion certificate. 

Seminar description

A major Supreme Court decision, a rise in Asian hate and violence, COVID-19 stress, and racial trauma: These have all contributed to the mental health challenges faced by young people today, especially those who are marginalized. Rather than ignore these trends, let’s ensure that we take care of the basics and address the mental health crisis of the often unseen and underserved Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander adolescents. Even when AAPI students look like they are doing well academically, they can mask underlying issues of anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. This session will explore specific mental health stressors, review compelling data, and offer practical resources and actionable tools that secondary schools, CBOs, and colleges can use to better support and advocate for the mental health of AAPI students. In addition, this session will address the particular needs of AAPI LGBTQ+ youth, including suicidal ideation and risk of suicide. There’s important work each of us can do to improve the mental health of AAPI and marginalized teens, and this seminar will help equip participants for that work.

Seminar presenters

• Li Hsiang (Lisa) Chung, M.A.Ed., College and Career Counselor/Specialist, La Canada High School 
• Chris Loo, LMSW, Co-Director of College Counseling Diversity, Unity and Belonging, NACAC Board of Directors 
• Kimberly Tsai Cawkwell, M.A.Ed., Director of Programs, Challenge Success 

Registration

Register for this seminar using this link: Register

PLEASE NOTE: All requests to switch cohorts, extend course access (by one month) or changes to course registrations will be subject to a $50 processing fee per person/per course. No refunds will be processed.

Cost

Price to attend an upcoming seminar or access it on-demand:

• $75 for NACAC members*
• $125 for nonmembers

A 20 percent discount is available for offices of four or more participants registering for the same course. 

*Unsure if you are a NACAC member? You may be eligible through your school or organization’s membership. Contact customer service for more information.

Questions?

For purchasing and billing questions, please email customerservice@nacacnet.org. For questions about the course, please email pd@nacacnet.org.

The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5242. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NACAC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

For more information about this seminar series, please visit nacacnet.org.