Speaker Bio – May 14 meeting of the Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults

STACY SKALSKI, Ph.D. is the Director of Public Policy for the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). Dr. Skalski works collaboratively with national policy makers, state leaders, educational and health professionals, and elected officials to advocate for expanding school-based mental health services for children and youth. She has nearly twenty years of experience as a practitioner, professor, school administrator and advocate for children’s mental health. Prior to joining the NASP staff in 2005, Dr. Skalski served as the Coordinator of Mental Health Services for the Douglas County School District (DCSD), Castle Rock, CO; as an Assistant Research Professor in School Psychology and Initial Teacher Preparation at the University of Colorado at Denver; and as a School Psychologist for the Douglas County and Cherry Creek School Districts. Over the last two decades she has written numerous articles and provided hundreds of professional presentations, trainings, and inservices across the USA on legal issues, assessment, behavior planning, school violence prevention, crisis intervention, response to intervention, and professional issues in school mental health. Dr. Skalski received her B.A. in psychology (Hanover College, 1985), MA in educational psychology (University of Denver, 1986) and her PhD in school psychology (University of Denver, 1991).