Dr. Leslie Anderson was honored to have been invited to serve as a panelist at Bold Ideas for Brighter Futures: The 2nd Global Conference on Child and Adolescent Mental Health co-hosted by the Institute for Life Course Health Research at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. Panelists centered the significance of appropriately scrutinizing evidence-based mental health interventions, systems-level change, and supporting students in the spaces they naturally occupy, such as schools, after school programs, community centers, and the like.