10:30 - 11:45 a.m., Thursday, April 6, 2017
PSU Ballroom East
On mental health
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 6.9% of adults in the US (16 million people) had at least one major depressive episode in the past year. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that suicide rates have increased nearly 25% over the last fifteen years. What accounts for these alarming figures? What public policies are necessary to address this crisis? What are best practices for promoting mental health, and how may mental disorders be better identified and destigmatized? What role should community institutions —government, not-for-profits, and private commercial sector— play in suicide prevention and in promoting mental health? How may individual community members be equipped to recognize and report concerns about mental health issues in their homes, classrooms, work places?
Presenters
![Associate Provost Denise Dutton](https://webapps.missouristate.edu/publicaffairs/upload/Dutton_500x500.jpg)
Denise Dutton
Associate Provost
University of Tulsa
![Africa Head of Business Development, Microsoft Mark Ihimoyan](https://webapps.missouristate.edu/publicaffairs/upload/Ihimoyan_500x500.jpg)
Mark Ihimoyan
Africa Head of Business Development, Microsoft
Microsoft
![Psychologist Ryan Jones](https://webapps.missouristate.edu/publicaffairs/upload/Jones_500x500.jpg)
Ryan Jones
Psychologist
CoxHealth
![Research Associate Professor of Social Work Nancy Lucero](https://webapps.missouristate.edu/publicaffairs/upload/Lucero_500x500.jpg)
Nancy Lucero
Research Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Denver