Expanding Your Role as a Mental Health Practitioner:
Insights from a Panel of School Psychologists
Live-streaming May 29th, 2025 12:00 p.m.- 1:00 p.m.
FREE for MASP members and $10 for non-members
DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES:
Join us for an enlightening and thought-provoking panel session featuring a diverse group of school psychologists who are experienced as mental health practitioners. In this session, our panelists will share their professional experiences, both challenges and opportunities, as consultants to districts supporting social-emotional initiatives, including the provision of direct mental health services to individuals and groups of students. This interactive session will provide valuable insights for anyone interested in the delivery of mental health services to improve students’ mental health care in their communities.
Throughout the discussion, the panel will cover key topics such as:
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Coaching and Consulting: Supporting data collection around social-emotional functioning, identifying student needs from Tier I to Tier III.
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Approaches in Therapy and Counseling: Exploring techniques and strategies, including digital therapy, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
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Fitting it All in: Finding creative ways to build time for groups, caseloads, or advocacy in a busy schedule.
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Practical Tips and Tricks: Learn how to avoid common pitfalls or roadblocks to ensure success in service delivery.
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Documentation: Sample review of required documentation for direct services through Medicaid billing.
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Self-Care for Practitioners: Understanding the importance of mental well-being for those who support others and strategies to prevent burnout.
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Q&A: Ample time will be provided for answering audience questions.
Whether you are considering picking up a caseload or running small groups in a less formal way, this session will provide resources, support, and encouragement in the rewarding work ahead!
PRESENTER INFORMATION:
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Tracy Hobbs, NCSP: Tracy has been a school psychologist for 44 years and currently serves as MASP's Membership Chair and NASP's Convention Committee Co-Chair. For the last two years, due to vacancies in the school social work discipline at his ISD, Tracy has been employed as a direct service provider for students, fulfilling SSW/Psych services written into their IEPs.
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Sara Lewandowski, PhD: Sara has been a school psychologist for 15 years in Shiawassee County. She currently serves as the Region 6 Director and MASP’s Mental Health Committee Chair. Sara supports her districts in collecting social-emotional screening data, and coaches using that data to drive Tier I curriculum implementation, as well as identifying students who are in need of additional Tier II and III support.
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Lauren Mangus, PhD, LP, NCSP: Lauren has been a school psychologist for nearly two decades and has been practicing as a licensed psychologist in an outpatient hospital setting for six years. Lauren has had a variety of experiences working in school, university, clinical, and hospital settings, with engaging in both direct and indirect mental health services within an ecological framework. Lauren is currently MASP president and MASP Communications Committee Chair.
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Charlene Mangi, MEd, SpA., NCSP: Charlene has been a school psychologist for 11 years and currently serves as MASP’s President Elect, and is the Lead School psych for her district. She currently works in three elementary schools. Mental Health support is a passion for her, and over the past 5 years she has consistently found ways to fit in direct service provision in the form of TRAILS CBT groups, a Drop-in Mindfulness program, Self-Regulation/Social-Skills groups for younger learners and Executive Functioning training for older students. She has also collaborated with leaders and teachers across the district to implement a Tier 1 SEL curriculum district-wide.
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Lisa Khoury, EdS: Lisa has worked in schools for 24 years. She is currently assigned to a High School, and also supports the district’s Community Campus Program for young adults (ages 18-26). In addition to consulting with district staff on mental health (MH) concerns and meeting with students individually to coach them through escape-oriented behavior, Lisa has supported the development and implementation of several MH initiatives including creating and maintaining a regulation room, designing a MH webpage for the district, providing content for MH-related topics for the school newspaper, addressing school refusal interventions, organizing TRAILS groups, providing suicide awareness presentations, risk assessment, and crisis interventions. Lisa and her team provide wrap-around care, facilitate grieving rooms for students, and take shifts at funerals to provide onsite MH supports for school families.
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Tom Harwood, EdD: As a MDE fully certified school psychologist, Tom has been working in the field for the past 40 years as a clinical psychologist, school psychologist, and school administrator. He currently provides therapeutic support to secondary students in the Royal Oak Schools with funding from the State of Michigan MDE 31n grant. The support provided occurs for students in general education who may be demonstrating mental health challenges such as: Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, ADHD, Sleep Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsion, Suicidal Thoughts, and Significant Trauma.
SCECH/CPD INFORMATION:
Participants may earn 1.0 SCECH/CPD for attending the live event and completing the appropriate google form within two weeks. SCECH/CPD will only be available for those who attend the live broadcast. In order to obtain 1.0 SCECH/ CPD, participants must complete the google form with the correct codes within two (2) weeks of completion of the webinar.
A link to a recorded version will be provided to all registered guests. You may register and receive a link to the recording up to one year after the live event.
Refund Policy:
Refunds will not be made routinely.
Disputed Charges Policy:
Should an individual dispute charges, particularly due to not recognizing the MASP charge on their credit/debit card, the card holder will be responsible for providing a Letter of Acceptance so that MASP may respond to the chargeback claim. The card holder will be assessed a fee of $25, regardless of the outcome of the chargeback, for having to reverse process the money to the card issuing bank.
Contact the MASP Conference Chair at Hannah.Barraw@gmail.com with any questions or concerns regarding this event.
