Tom Sopp, MA., School Psychologist, LMFT, is a school psychologist with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) which is a large, culturally diverse, urban school district. Tom is assigned to the Family Resource Center (FRC), where he supports school sites by assessing the site’s tiered support services, collaborating with staff on adding intervention services, providing individual and group counseling services to students, modeling classroom social/emotional lessons for teachers, providing parent training, and leading professional development for school staff. In addition, he is the Advocacy & Leadership Committee chair for the California Association of School Psychologists (CASP).

Nelarie Romo, Ed.S, M.A., NCSP, LEP, was a bilingual school psychologist for 8 years and is currently the Director of Student Services of a district within the central valley. She has taught courses at Brandman University and has served on the CASP board in multiple roles, including Affiliate Representative and Virtual Services Chair. She has created crisis and mental health protocols and procedures for districts, served as the re-founding affiliate president for her local affiliate, was awarded the Nadine Lambert “School Psychologist of the Year” award for her region, and is a trainer for PREPaRE.

Stephanie Murray, MA., School Psychologist, has been a school psychologist with the Whittier Union High School District (WUHSD) for 27 years. After serving California High School for 21 years, in addition to other programs including alternative education, her current assignments involves conducting ERMHS assessments for the district, as well as other assignments including collaborating and consulting with staff at the various schools, also serving as an Incident Leader for Crisis teams, and working with WUHSD’s Student Wellbeing team in training staff and crisis teams on suicide risk assessments, and suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention protocols and policy, having helped develop the district procedures for suicide prevention. Stephanie serves as a co-chair of the Los Angeles County Child and Adolescent Suicide Review Team, serves on the LA County Suicide Prevention Network, and its associated Youth Workgroup, and consults with the LA County Office of Education, Center for Distance and Online Learning on the SPORT 2 (Suicide Prevention) program.