Teen Mental Health Matters: YALS Fall Conference 2022
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Portsmouth Public Library
175 Parrott Ave., Portsmouth, NH 03801
In-Person and Virtual
9:00am-9:30am Registration and Introductions
9:30am-9:45am YALS Business Meeting & Flume and Isinglass Awards Update
9:45am-10:00am Video Game Library & Board Game Library with Julia Lanter and Justine Fafara
Julia Lanter (Exeter Public Library) and Justine Fafara (Richards Free Library) will give us the scoop on their new board game and video game collections.
Video Game Library: Available now at https://www.exeterpl.org/services-4-1
Board Game Library: Soon available for lending to NH libraries!
10:00am-11:00am Mic'd Up: Podcasting Panel with Stacey Desrosiers, Jenny Devost, and Sam Diggins
Stacey Desrosiers (Goffstown Public Library), Jenny Devost (Merrimack Public Library), and Sam Diggins (Merrimack Public Library) will share their experiences with creating and recording podcasts at their libraries, along with tips and tricks for creating your own library podcast.
11:00am-11:30am Liberty Hardy & Her Favorite New YA Books! (virtual)
Liberty Hardy is a senior contributing editor for Book Riot and host of the popular All the Books! podcast. She lives in the great state of Maine, where she reads over 600 books a year and hangs out with her three cats, who hate to read.
11:30am-12:00pm "Serving Teens on the Autism Spectrum"
with Amanda Morton from ABA Centers of America
Brittany Mobilia from ABA Centers of America will give you tips on how to best serve your teen patrons on the Autism Spectrum.
www.abacenters.com
12:00pm-12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm-1:30pm Keynote Speaker: Kalynn Bayron (virtual)
YA author Kalynn Bayron will share her journey as an author and the process of getting her book Cinderella is Dead published, followed by a Q&A session.
Kalynn Bayron is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead, This Poison Heart and This Wicked Fate, and is a classically trained vocalist. When she’s not writing she can be found enjoying musical theater, horror novels, and classical music. She currently lives in Ithaca, New York with her family.
www.kalynnbayron.com • @KalynnBayron
1:30pm-2:00pm Mental Health First Aid Training with Suzanne M. Meattey from the UNH Cooperative Extension Mental Health First Aid Program
Suzanne M. Meattey will lead us in a youth-specific Mental Health First Aid Training.
https://extension.unh.edu/health-well-being/programs/mental-health-first-aidr
2:00pm-2:45pm "The State of Teen Mental Health in NH" with Seacoast Mental Health’s Jodie Lubarsky
Jodie Lubarsky will provide on overview about the NH Mental Health System and its various services and programs, as well as signs and symptoms libraries may see in a youth and how to offer aid to teens in our programs.
https://smhc-nh.org/
2:45pm-3:00pm Program Sharing & Closing
*RiverRun Bookstore will be selling books between 10:30am and 2pm.
*Please read the NHLA Cancellation policy before registering.
