Fifth Annual National Ted and Roberta Mann Foundation Symposium about Children & Young Adults with Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Exploring the Signs and Interventions for Nonverbal Learning Disorders (NVLD)

Special Education and the Circle Process: Using Restorative Principles with all Students

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Focus On a Hidden Disability

Jeanne Ketola - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Focus On a Hidden Disability

Sue Terwey - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Focus On a Hidden Disability

Preparing for Employment Two Sides of the Same Coin, Sean Roy and Jayne Spain

Handout 1 Interest Assessment

Handout 2 Minnesota SOP

Handout 3 Courses of Study Sample 2010

Handout 4 Career Wheel

Perspectives from the Field: Keeping Kids in the Classroom and out of Corrections

Keeping Kids in the Classroom and out of Corrections Lili Garfinkel

Handout 1 Child Development Childrens Mental Health and the Juvenile Justice System

Handout 2 Disproportionate Minor Representation in Suspension and Expulsion in Minnesota Public Schools

Keynote Presentation | Teens Against Bullying Video and Presentation

Closing Keynote Presentation | Safe and Supportive Schools: Creating Environments Where Everyone Can Learn

2010 National Speakers

Verna Price, Ph.D.

Dr. Verna Cornelia Price is an entrepreneur, organizational consultant, educator, author, executive coach and an internationally known motivational speaker. As the president and principal consultant of J. Cameron & Associates and JCAMA Publishers, she has custom designed a multiple intelligence approach that engages clients in a structured process for rethinking leadership and the role of personal power in the workplace. Dr. Price received her Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. She is currently Leadership Institute Faculty at The College of St. Catherine and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Read Sulik, M.D.

Dr. Read Sulik is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, adult psychiatrist, and pediatrician who was recently appointed assistant commissioner for Chemical and Mental Health Services Administration for the Minnesota Department of Human Services. He speaks extensively on depression, anxiety, trauma, suicide, ADHD, and more. His recent awards include the 2007 Psychiatrist of the Year and 2008 Distinguished Service Award from the Minnesota Psychiatric Society, as well as the 2008 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill. He earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed the Triple Board Combined Residency Program at the University of Kentucky.

Kevin Jennings, M.B.A.

Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools
Kevin Jennings is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that works to make schools safe for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Prior to his tenure at GLSEN, Jennings served as History Department chair and a history teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts and before that as a history teacher at Moses Brown School in Rhode Island. Jennings has also authored six books including Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir which was named a 2007 Book of Honor by the American Library Association and Telling Tales Out of School which was the winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award. Jennings received an A.B. in history from Harvard, an M.A. from the Columbia University Teachers College and an M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business.

Youth Advisory Board

Join the PACER Center Youth Advisory Board for this unique presentation of a teen’s journey through the school and community as a person with a mental health disability. These articulate and talented youth will share their personal stories and inspire confidence that people with mental health disabilities have much to offer society.