Kimberly Yanek, PhD, PCC-CPIC, serves as a Co-Director, Technical Assistance School Behavioral Health Team University of South Carolina, Implementer Partner with the Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), and a subject matter expert for social emotional behavior for a national community of practice. She serves on the Center for PBIS MH/SEB/Wellness, Equity, Crisis Response & Recovery, and Classroom/Disability workgroups. She recently completed her Certified Professional Integrative Coaching degree, which focuses on the wholeness of human being and potential, through the International Coaching Federation Foundation. Kimberly works in partnership with organizations, communities, and individuals to support transformational change. Kimberly has published in the areas of evidence based social emotional behavioral supports, systems of wellness, systems alignment, positive classroom behavior supports, and supports for students with disabilities. Her career in education currently focuses on organizational change and adult learning and it began in the classroom as a special education teacher.

Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 after completing his internship at Duke University Medical Center, and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina (USC). In 1995, with colleagues from the University of Maryland, he established the National Center for School Mental Health, now in its 29^th year of supporting this field (seewww.schoolmentalhealth.org). He is also a partner on the National Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (seewww.pbis.org). He has edited or developed 17 books and has published and presented widely in areas of mental health-education system partnerships, school behavioral health (SBH), trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, supporting military families, and advancing policies that support children and youth at local, state, regional, national, and international levels of scale. With colleagues, he currently leads the Southeastern School Behavioral Health Community (seewww.schoolbehavioralhealth.org), and is leading or co-leading a number of federally funded studies on strategies to improve SBH effectiveness, impact and scaling up. Since 2013, Mark has co-chaired the School Mental Health International Leadership Exchange (see www.smhile.org), and has helped to lead international meetings in London, UK (2014), Columbia, SC (2015), Sweden (2018), Baltimore/Washington (2019), New Zealand (2022, virtual), and the Netherlands (2024).