Mind the Gap: Integrating Physical and Mental Health

Please join Anne M. and Edward M. Burke, J. Ira Harris, Joyce and Dusty Sang & the Child Mind Institute for Mind the Gap: Integrating Physical and Mental Health

Integration of primary care and mental health services holds the promise of better access to quality care and improved outcomes for kids.

Address: Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, President, Child Mind Institute

Panel: Heather Higgins Alderman President, Illinois Children’s Healthcare Foundation. Barbara Bowman, Founder and Professor, Erikson Institute. Ricardo Estrada, President and CEO, Metropolitan Family Services. Bennett Leventhal, MD, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Emeritus, University of Chicago; Research Scientist, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. Cathy Mavrolas , PhD, Chief Psychologist and Director of Training in Psychology, LaRabida Children’s Hospital.

Moderator: Gery J. Chico, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Education; Senior Partner, Chico & Nunes, P.C.

About Speak Up for Kids

This event is part of the Child Mind Institute’s Speak Up for Kids, a public education campaign held each May to battle the stigma and misinformation that prevent kids from getting life-changing treatment. By promoting awareness and engaging a broad coalition of partners, the campaign sparks the national attention that children’s mental health deserves.

Child Mind Institute is the only independent nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to transforming mental health care for children everywhere. Founded by Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz and Brooke Garber Neidich, our organization is committed to finding more effective treatments for childhood psychiatric and learning disorders, building the science of healthy brain development, and empowering children and their families to get help, hope, and answers.