9.30am Registration
10am Welcome RemarksJane Panton, Chairperson, Alex Panton Foundation
10.10am Welcome RemarksHis Excellency Martyn Roper, OBE, Governor of the Cayman Islands
10.15am Opening AddressHon Dwayne Seymour, JP, MP, Minister of Health, Environment, Culture and Housing
10.20am Opening AddressHon Julianna O’Connor-Connolly, JP, MP, Minister for Education, Youth, Sports, Agriculture and Lands
10.25am An overview of the 2020 mental health data of the Cayman Islands Student Drug Use SurveyBrenda Watson, Acting Director and Programme Manager, National Drug Council Cayman Islands and Dr Erica Lam, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Aspire and Clinical Consultant of Alex Panton Foundation
10.55am COVID-19 and Children’s Mental Health: Lessons Learned from the Red Cross Mobile Health and Wellness ProjectCarolina Ferreira, Deputy Director and Child Protection & Sexuality Education Programme Manager for the Cayman Islands Red Cross
11.10am Youth Challenges and Resilience Amid COVID-19Dr Marc Lockhart, Psychiatrist, Director of the Inpatient Psychiatry Unit at The Health Services Authority, Medical Director of BHAC, Behavioral Health Associates Cayman and Chairman of The Mental Health Commission
11.40am Panel discussion: The impact of the pandemic on youth mental health, building resilience and recoveryModerated by Bill LaMonte, Youth Ambassador Programme Education Coordinator, Panelists, Diane Cummings, Daphne Ewing-Chow, Neil Lumley and Youth Ambassador Programme representatives Cristin Jackson and Monina Thompson
12.20pm The importance of inclusion – life storiesYouth Ambassador Programme representatives Sadie Finch, Dylan DaCosta, Sanaa Archer, Jhadari Lumley
12.50pm Lunch
1.50pm Parental attachment and child anxietyShannon Seymour, The Wellness Centre Clinical Director and Clinical Psychologist
2.20pm “Out of my mind” – Drawing light out of darknessMartina Jackson
2.25pmA new approach to youth well being: collaboration of the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre and Alex Panton FoundationCarol-Anne Fordyce, Cayman Islands Crisis Centre Coordinator and Dr Erica Lam, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Aspire and Clinical Consultant of Alex Panton Foundation
2.45pm Zippy & Apple & the Pandemic: our social & emotional literacy programme in 2020Dr Catherine Day, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Aspire, and Alex Panton Foundation Emotional Literacy Programme and Dr Xenia Sotiriou, BHAC Therapist and Alex Panton Foundation Emotional Literacy Programme
3.15pm Closing RemarksHailee Robinson, Deputy Chairperson, Alex Panton Foundation