Elevating Voices for Mental Health Change with Jennifer Ulie, Ph.D.
Mental health change starts by listening to the people living inside the system.
In this conversation, Jennifer Ulie, Ph.D. shares a deeply personal and professional perspective on mental health advocacy, family experience, and the systems responsible for supporting young people and the people who care for them.
The episode explores why lived experience matters, where mental health systems often fall short, and what it takes to move beyond awareness toward meaningful change.
Parents, educators, mental health professionals, youth-serving organizations, advocates, system leaders, and anyone interested in creating more responsive and humane mental health supports.
A conversation about voice, experience, and changing the systems around mental health.
Why the voices of individuals and families navigating mental health systems belong at the center of decisions about care and support.
How fragmented systems, narrow definitions of need, and limited family partnership can make already difficult situations harder.
A look at what families need when they are navigating schools, providers, crises, and complex mental health systems.
Why improving mental health requires more than awareness campaigns and why systems, policies, relationships, and practice all matter.
We cannot transform mental health systems without listening differently to the people those systems are meant to serve.
What would change if lived experience were treated as expertise rather than an afterthought?
Use this episode as a personal reflection, team discussion starter, professional learning resource, or conversation about how your organization listens to young people and families.
MyMensana 2026