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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's (AACAP's) Program Committee has issued a Call for Papers for submission of abstracts of original investigations for consideration in the 2024 Annual Meeting of AACAP, October 14‐19, in Seattle. AACAP is planning for an in‐person meeting in Seattle and as such, will require all presenters to be in‐person in Seattle for their presentation. The Call for Papers deadline is Feb. 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. EST). For more information, visit https://aacap.confex.com/aacap/2024/cfp.cgi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than a year's worth of discussions of a "brand refresh" at the National Council for Behavioral Health has led to an organizational name change, to the National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The National Council's president and CEO told MHW last week that the change in large part reflects the perspectives of recipients of its members' services, a group of patients that never warmed up to the "behavioral health" terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section offers news briefs. These include a 100,000 U.S. dollars grant received by Park Ridge Police Department in Illinois, to apply community policing principles to mental health, the sentencing of an operator of community health centers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and a patient recruiter in Houston, Texas in a 258 million U.S. dollars Medicare fraud scheme and 1 million U.S. dollars in federal funds received by Oklahoma to help its health centers establish behavioral health services.

A calendar of events related to mental health in the U.S. from September to November 2016 is presented including the Building Blocks for Infant Mental Health Conference, 63rd annual meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and 37th annual conference of the Association of Community Living Agencies in Mental Health.

A calendar of events related to mental health in the U.S. as of April 13, 2015 is presented which includes Mental Health America's annual conference, the National Alliance on Mental Illness convention and the "Roadmap to Integrated Care" conference of Greene County Medical Society, Burrell Behavioral Health and Forest Institute.