Join us for LMHANJ’s 2026 Annual Conference — now a TWO-DAY EVENT!
We’re excited to gather on March 20–21, 2026, at The College of New Jersey for an inspiring conference grounded in the power of unity, healing, and purposeful collaboration. This year’s theme, Fuerza en Unidad: Intersections of Healing and Collective Action, celebrates the strength that emerges when communities, disciplines, and voices come together to advance the mental health and wellbeing of Latino communities. As the challenges we face grow more complex, so must our responses. Over two days, we’ll explore how healing is amplified through intentional, culturally grounded, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. From clinicians to researchers, students to higher education professionals, and community advocates alike — this conference is where knowledge meets action, and collective vision sparks change.
What You’ll Experience:
This conference is more than professional development, it’s holistic healing for the healers.
For two days, you’ll be invited to step out of constant giving and into intentional receiving. This is your time to pause, reflect, reconnect, and pour back into yourself while expanding your knowledge, leadership, and collective impact.
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Restorative Practices Rooting in Healing: Experience embodied sessions designed to nourish your mind, body, and spirit — including guided breathwork, trauma-informed practices, and experiential EMDR demonstrations. Because sustainable service begins with sustained wellbeing. You cannot pour from an empty cup and here, you won’t have to.
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Meaningful Dialogue and Reflection: Engage in courageous conversations that move beyond surface-level networking and into deeper reflection around identity, culture, and collective responsibility. Topics will explore narratives such as pelo bueno, pelo malo, the Afro-Latino experience, the power of the immigration story, intergenerational healing, and the intersections of advocacy and mental health. These are the conversations that remind us who we are and why we do this work.
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Community in Action: This is not transactional networking. Through intentional mixers, facilitated discussion spaces, and cross-disciplinary panels, you’ll build relationships with clinicians, educators, researchers, students, and advocates who share your commitment to our communities. Expect structured opportunities to connect, exchange ideas, explore partnerships, and plant seeds for collaborations that extend far beyond the conference weekend.
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Celebrating Excellence within Our Comunidad: We will honor the brilliance and leadership within our field through awards, recognitions, and scholarship presentations, including celebrating emerging leaders and student scholars shaping the future of Latino mental health. This is a space where excellence is acknowledged, uplifted, and amplified.
Belonging and Collective Care: A space where your voice is valued, your work is affirmed, and your presence matters. Where collective care is not a buzzword, but a lived experience.
Together, we’ll explore how collective action fuels community healing — and how unity is our greatest strength.
Announcing our Keynote Speaker
We are honored to welcome Dr. Jennifer Mullan, author of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice, as our keynote speaker.
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Dr. Mullan will deliver a powerful keynote address titled Remembering What Was Never Lost: Healing, Ancestral Intelligence, and Collective Care.
Rooted in land, labor, and ancestral acknowledgment, this keynote will name the violences shaping our current moment—from state harm against undocumented communities to global crises, genocide, displacement, and systemic collapse. Dr. Mullan will invite attendees to move from the macro-level realities of oppression into the lived experiences held within our bodies, nervous systems, and collective psyches—offering a framework for healing that is both personal and communal.
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A Note about Continuing Education Credits (CEs):
As a multidisciplinary association, the continuing education credits offered at this conference are sponsored by two different providers: Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology (Rutgers GSAPP) and Rutgers School of Social Work. CE eligibility is different for each provider and is delineated below. If you have any questions about your respective field's CE requirements, please consult with your governing board.
Full conference attendance provides a total of 8 social work continuing education hours (social and cultural competence): 5 on Friday and 3 on Saturday.
Individual workshops/panels with associated CEs are sponsored by Rutgers GSAPP, approved by the APA.
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0123.
LMFT/MFT and LPC/LAC Licensed in New Jersey: Programs approved by the American Psychological Association are acceptable sources of continuing education credits. Please see https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/regulations/Chapter-34-Subchapters-10-31-Professional-Counselors.pdf, Section: 13:34-15.4 APPROVAL OF COURSES OR PROGRAMS on page 27. For all other professional licenses and certifications, please reference your issuing state board regulations regarding reciprocity of continuing education credits.
