Coming Together for Action (CT4A)
Global Alliance’s biennial interdisciplinary symposium on behavioral health, social justice, & healthier communities.
Coming Together For Action
The Global Alliance collaborates with individuals with lived expertise, researchers and practitioners from across disciplines to promote mental wellness for all in settings where we live, learn, work, pray, and play. Now more than ever we need to work together to counter threats to mental wellness—health disparities, global conflicts, climate change, increased displacement, erosion of human rights—and to reimagine ways to create settings, social environments, and policies that promote wellness.
Where it all began! CT4A 2024 was held on the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) campus, in the same city as the Global Alliance’s very first meeting in 1924!
About the Symposium
The most recent symposium was held in Chicago, IL, September 26–28, 2024. The theme was Toward Mental Wellness.
Coming Together for Action (CT4A) is a biennial event that explores cutting-edge research, practice, and policy in behavioral health and concrete actions that we can take to strengthen behavioral health and social justice for all.
CT4A brings together individuals with backgrounds in psychology, psychiatry, social work, nursing, law, planning, education, international community development, political science, technology, economics, and more. Our attendees include early and mid-career professionals, teens, college students, retirees, and people of all kinds with valuable lived experience at the intersections of health, justice, and communities.
Why attend Coming Together for Action?
Improving Mental Health and Well-being for Others
Are you engaged in innovative research or practice to improve mental health and well-being for individuals, families, and communities?
Thoughtful, Practical, and Engaging Sessions
Looking for thoughtful, practical, and engaging sessions with real-world relevance that bring the research to life?
Networking Across Behavioral Health Disciplines
Interested in networking with researchers and practitioners from other disciplines engaged in behavioral health work?
This is the gathering for you!
Research, innovation, and action are critically needed to promote behavioral health among individuals, families, and communities. Join researchers, practitioners, community members, policymakers, and students to share innovative and effective efforts to:
- Prevent behavioral health challenges
- Promote health and well-being
- Foster responsive community systems
- Value wellness and healing knowledge of marginalized individuals, families, and communities
- Develop strategies for addressing social determinants of mental health
- Increase equity across communities
Membership has its benefits
Join the Global Alliance and receive a reduced registration rate for Coming Together for Action!
Membership in the Global Alliance also gives you:
- Access to a diverse community of individuals drawn together by a dedication to the study of human behavior broadly defined and its relationship to the delivery of behavioral health services
- Access to cutting-edge research in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Opportunities to network with like-minded professionals
- Access to resources through our membership in various national and international coalitions
- Competitive membership rates
Latest Announcements
CT4A: 2024 Social Media Blast on August 26
Our Coming Together for Action 2024 symposium is happening this fall—be part of the action! Help us celebrate our 100th anniversary…
CT4A: 2024 Registration Now Open
Coming Together for Action (CT4A) builds on the vision of our founders in identifying innovation in community settings, social environments, practices and policies that promote wellness.
CT4A: 2024 Call for Proposals
Coming Together for Action welcomes submissions that examine systems, settings and policies that focus on response to the current crisis and, the prevention of future crises.