Lead With Compassion: Mental Health at UNITED 2025
Leadership today demands more than vision—it requires heart. With student needs intensifying and staff exhaustion growing, mental health support has never been more critical. These UNITED 2025 sessions are designed to help leaders foster safe, inclusive, and emotionally responsive school environments.
Featured Sessions:
- Finding Joy in Your Journey—Even When It’s Tough – Principal Cindy Sholtys-Cromwell
This interactive session offers practical strategies to help principals maintain joy, resilience, and purpose—even through burnout, crises, and personal setbacks. Attendees will explore self-care practices, stress management tools, and ways to foster a supportive, well-being-focused school culture. - High School Can Be Fun: Creating a Culture and Climate for Growth – Principal Tracie Anderson Swilley
Learn how to transform your high school into a place where students and staff feel energized, connected, and inspired to grow. Gain practical strategies to foster a positive school culture through relationship-building, inclusive activities, and a focus on community, curiosity, and resilience. - Engaging Mindfully With Trauma Through a Healing-Centered Framework – Jennifer Ventimiglia
Build on trauma-informed practices with a healing-centered approach that promotes collective wellness across your school community. Explore how trauma impacts individuals and institutions, reflect on strengths-based strategies for healing, and walk away with actionable steps to implement this work in your school.
Join the UNITED Conference, July 11–13, 2025, in Seattle, WA.