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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

MR.TOAD’SWILDRIDE THROUGHTHEWORLDOF CHILDREN’SMENTALHEALTH!

Liz has worked for SAMHSA for the past 25 years as a Federal Health Advisor in the Center for Mental Health Services, focused on the issues families face while raising children with mental health challenges and on the systems that serve them. As a Mom, who, with her husband, raised a son with mental health challenges, Liz knows what it is like to try and find appropriate services for children and youth. Liz is the Gold Star Mother of Sgt. Thomas J. Sweet II of the Big Red One, 1st of the 5th Field Artillery Unit out of Ft. Riley, Kansas, who died in 2003 in Iraq as a result of suicide. In her current role at SAMHSA she continues to focus on issues of family involvement across the lifespan and all of behavioral health.

Thank You to our Title Sponsor

Each year, PPAL presents awards to community members doing outstanding work in the field of children's

PPAL's own Irelsa Oliveras received the Champion Award from the Insurance Resource Center for Autism and Behavioral Health for her advocacy work in the autism community!

PPAL looks forward to continued collaboration in the future!