Call for Presentations (CFP) Portal Open for New York's Largest Best Practices and Workforce Development Training!

The NYS Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health, in partnership with the NYS Office of Mental Health, is now accepting proposals for New York’s largest annual children’s behavioral health conference—a vibrant, statewide event that brings together professionals from across the continuum of care.

This is your chance to showcase your success stories, innovative models, and promising practices to a wide audience of peers and leaders. Whether you're driving change in clinical care, community programs, policy, or youth engagement, we want to hear from you!

Submit your proposal by September 25, 2025 to be considered. Selected presentations will highlight relevance, creativity, practical application, and replicable strategies that professionals can bring back to their agencies and communities.

We’re deeply committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging—and to amplifying the voices of youth, families, and underrepresented communities. We strongly encourage proposals that include diverse speakers and lived experiences. Let’s inspire, connect, and lead the way forward—together!

• Cross-Systems Efforts to Collaborate on Addressing Local Needs and Gaps
• Wellness-Informed Care, Alternative Services & Health Knowledge
• Trauma-Focused Treatment and Services
• Self-Care for the Direct Caregiver
• Managing Adverse Childhood Experiences for Successful Outcomes
• Embracing Social Supports and Determinants of Health for Youth and Families
• Providing Services & Supports to LGBTQ and Transgender Youth
• Embracing Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity in Children’s Behavioral Health
• Integrated Care Models: Primary and Behavioral Health Care
• Addressing Opportunities and Challenges with Complex Needs, Co-Occurring Disorders (SUD, SED, I/DD)
• Issues Impacting Transition Age Youth
• Supporting the Voice of Youth & Families in our Communities
• Promising Practices for HCBI, CTI, CTTP, and other Children’s Services

• Engaging and Supporting Youth and Families Impacted by Immigration Enforcement
• Youth ACT Practices for Staffing, Crisis Management and More
• Social Media for Youth: Challenges and Opportunities
• Supports and Coordination for the HCBS Service Array
• Promising Practices and Lessons Learned for Child-Serving Clinics, School-Based Mental Health and Day Treatment
• Innovative Approaches to Care via CFTSS Programming
• Suicide Prevention & Supports for Youth
• Addressing Sexual and Domestic Abuse and Violence
• Workforce Recruitment and Retention
• Managing Loss and Grief
• Utilizing the Crisis Services Continuum
• Telehealth for Children’s Services
• Utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Services
• Organization Change & Change Management
• School-Based Integrated Mental Health Services
• Working with Trafficked Youth