On February 4, 2020, Stanford Professor Shashank V. Joshi gave a wonderful lecture on the topic, “School Mental Health & Wellbeing Promotion: Lessons from the Last Ten Years and Wisdom for the Next Ten”. In this well received presentation, Professor Joshi condensed his twenty one years of knowledge and experiences working in the field of school mental health promotion and suicide prevention into three major objectives that the lecture guests would achieve after the talk,
- List protective factors in youth wellbeing and suicide prevention
- Describe effective strategies that involve school-community partnerships
- Identify cultural opportunities and barriers for implementing school-based mental health interventions
Take home message from Professor Joshi,
“How can one person change mental health landscape?…One conversation at a time. Everyone please, go out, or post, or tweet, tell one person what you learned today, tell him/her the thing we talked about, that is how stigma changes, that is how discussion of mental health changes, one conversation at a time. So go out, and talk, and listen. ”
It was our great honor and privilege that Professor Joshi shared his invaluable wisdom at Alan Hu Mental Health Lecture Series.
Alan Hu Foundation was honored to co-host this event with Las Positas College (LPC) Psychology Club in partnership with Lyra Ghose of Stanford Medicine.
We are grateful to Professor Joshi, Dr. Robin Roy of LPC Psychology Club, Lyra Ghose, LPC Psychology Club and many outstanding volunteers!