Connecting Adolescent Health Professionals
Connection Sessions are day-long conferences focusing on one specific topic in adolescent health for an interdisciplinary audience of health care professionals.
The 2025 Connection Session, Community Violence: Impacts and Prevention in Schools and Health Care, will take place Monday, May 12, both online and in-person at the Washtenaw Community College Morris Lawrence Building (4800 E Huron River Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48105).
Registration opens March 10. For all the latest updates, sign up for our newsletter!
Schedule of Events:
Hybrid Morning Sessions:
- Welcome and Introduction - Perspectives on community violence prevention and intervention impacting youth
- Trauma-informed care in youth-supporting settings
In-Person Afternoon Sessions:
- Presentation on AHI's new resource on engaging youth to address community violence
- Workshop: Making schools safe
- Closing remarks
Pricing:
- In-person: $85
- Virtual: $30
- Student in-person: $75
Student virtual: $25
Forthcoming!
Educational Planner:
- Terrill Bravender, MD, MPH
Educational Co-Planners:
- Cornelius Jamison, MD, MSPH
- Dana Thomas, MPH
- Marlanna Landeros, MSW
- Aubrey Huff, MPA
- Lauren Vasquez, MS, CHES
- MavaMarie Cooper, MPH
- Iman Saleem, MPH
- Emily Rowland, RN, MSc, PhD Candidate
- Elizabeth Kuzma, DNP, RN, FNP-BC
- Scott Mooney, MA
Activity Coordinators:
- Aubrey Huff
- Ashley Vines
- Isabelle Birt
Interested in sponsorship or exhibiting?
Please email [email protected].
Save the date for our 2025 Connection Session, 9:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. EDT, focusing on a single topic impacting youth. For all the latest updates on speakers, topics, and ways you can get involved, contact us.
Connection Session professional development opportunities aim to connect health professionals to community resources and others in the field.
The target audience for Connection Sessions is:
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurse Practitioners
- Nurses
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Health Center Managers
- Other Health Care Professionals
- House Officers
- Medical Students
- Administrators
- Youth-Serving Community Professionals
Learn more about and explore content from previous Connection Sessions.