Dr. Nate von der Embse is a Professor of School Psychology at the University of South Florida and co-executive director of the School Mental Health Collaborative, a national research and technical assistance center. His research improves educational decision-making by identifying the influence of external policies and contextual drivers while developing novel solutions to improve the use of preventative school mental health services. He is a primary and co-investigator on over $37 million in federal, state, and privately funded research grants that address universal screening for behavioral and mental health, teacher stress and student test anxiety, and suicide and school violence prevention programming. He received the 2018 Lightner Witmer Award for early career scholarship from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association, is a co-developer of the SAEBRS screening tools that are used in all 50 states, and the author of the recent book, Conducting Behavioral and Social-Emotional Assessments in MTSS: Screen to Intervene.