Building Collaboration for Scaling Effective School Behavioral Health
Objectives
- Implementing evidence-based SBH strategies across all tiers of the MTSS
- Developing a well-trained, credentialed SBH workforce
- Enhancing community partner, family, and student leadership
- Promoting within-school and cross-system collaboration with youth-serving agencies
- Delivering culturally responsive supports and services
- Ensuring effective programming for students with disabilities
Wednesday, April 28 – Friday, April 30, 2027
Hyatt Regency Greenville, SC
Overview
The Southeastern School Behavioral Health Conference promotes effective school behavioral health practices, operating within schools’ multi-tiered systems of support and promoting positive social, emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning of all students. The 2027 event will offer keynote presentations and more than 60 breakout sessions.
The conference brings together K-12 educators and administrators; school counselors, social workers, and psychologists; community-based mental health providers, researchers and students, behavior interventionists; families, advocates, and youth leaders; and district- and state-level policy leaders.
If you have questions that aren’t answered in the pages linked below, email SBHConference@sc.edu.
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Schedule
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Registration and Hotel
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Continuing Education
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Sponsors
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Conference Website
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Call for Proposals
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Awards
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FAQ
Past Conferences
| Year | Location | Keynote speaker(s) |
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| 2014 | Columbia, SC | Joanne Cashman |
| 2015 | Charleston, SC | Susan Barrett |
| 2016 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Nancy Lever |
| 2017 | Myrtle Beach, SC | George Sugai; Gloria Reeves |
| 2018 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Sharon Hoover; Kathleen Lane |
| 2019 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Heather George; Denise Wheatley-Rowe |
| 2020 | No conference due to COVID-19. | |
| 2021 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Lucille Eber; Mike Veny; Elizabeth Mellin; Michael Lindsey |
| 2022 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Tim Lewis; Brittany Patterson; Cathy Hurst |
| 2023 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Kent McIntosh, Ph.D.; Sam Bellamy |
| 2024 | Myrtle Beach, SC | Brandi Simonsen, Ph.D.; Steven W. Evans, Ph.D.; Lisa Herring |
| 2025 | Myrtle Beach, SC | James P. Huguley, Ed.D.; Brian P. Daly, Ph.D.; Joni Splett, Ph.D. |