Full Name
Steven Adelsheim
Job Title
Director, Stanford Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing
Company
Stanford Department of Psychiatry
Speaker Bio
Steven Adelsheim, MD, is a Clinical Professor & Associate Chair for Community Engagement at Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry, directing the Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing. Steve’s work is focused on early detection/intervention programs for young people. He leads the effort to bring allcove to the US, an integrated youth mental health model, which opened in June 2021 in Santa Clara County, with additional sites now in LA and San Mateo Counties, with plans to open 8 additional centers in California over the next 2 years. Dr. Adelsheim also co-leads PEPPNET, the national clinical network for early psychosis programs. Steve also co-directs the Media and Mental Health Initiative in Stanford’s Psychiatry Department. Dr. Adelsheim has partnered for many years with Native American and tribal partners on expanding early intervention mental health supports for tribal youth. He is actively involved in youth suicide prevention efforts, as well as 2 ECHO Programs, one supporting Native Youth Mental Health Providers and the other focused on school mental health, which will start in the Fall of 2025. Steve previously spent many years leading school mental health efforts for the State of New Mexico and served as New Mexico’s state Psychiatric Medical Director.
Steven Adelsheim