Focus on Youth: Strategies That Counter High-Risk Environments

Wednesday, August 19, 2026
9:30 AM 10:30 AM

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Children and adolescents face a range of risk factors that can influence their lifelong health and well-being, from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and behavioral health challenges to community conditions and other social determinants of health. Understanding how these factors shape healthy and unhealthy life trajectories is critical to developing effective prevention and intervention strategies. 

Join the Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health to explore how systems-level approaches and adaptive leadership can help organizations better support youth living in high-risk environments. Participants will learn about the environmental, structural, and policy factors that affect youth behavioral health and learn how cross-sector collaboration can strengthen primary prevention efforts. 

The session will be moderated by PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact Senior Advisor Carmen Rita Nevarez and feature Leadership Academies for the Public’s Health (LAPH) alumni team representatives Katie Eklund (Collaborative for Equitable Mental Health Services in Madison Schools) and Brandon Davidson (East Texas ACE Task Force).

This Web Forum is sponsored by the Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health, and produced by Dialogue4Health, both programs of PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact.

Presenters

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Katie Eklund, PhD, NCSP, LP

Professor, School of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Brandon Davidson

Executive Director
Next Step Community Solutions

Moderator

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Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH

Senior Advisor, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
Founder, Dialogue4Health
Sr. Vice President Emeritus, External Relations and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Institute