The 1st CHI Symposia on Computing and Mental Health, held in San Jose, CA, on May 7th 2016, focused broadly on bringing together clinical psychology andcomputation communities around topics of wearable computing, online communities and social networks at either the individual, group or population level. Submissions were clustered into three categories, namely prevention and treatment of mental health conditions and promotion of positive mental health . 
The response to our call for papers was overwhelming, with close to 80 submissions, with a final accepted papers tally of 12 for full presentations and 16 poster presentations after three person blind review process.Well over 100 participants attended the workshop.
The workshop elicited enthusiastic participation with feedback centered on a few important future directions: (1) a near unanimous desire to continue the workshop in the coming years to sustain this growing community, (2) the need for better design of experiments for prevention, treatment and promotion of mental health and a need for more rigorous evaluation of behavioral interventions of the exploding array of mental health technologies, and (3) the need for human-computer interaction methods and human-centric design in helping casual inference in mental health applications. 
The workshop showed we can bring together leading researchers and practitioners in computer science, human-computer interaction and the mental health community, with a sizable presence of clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and those with lived experience. This represents a growing community, a “new partnership between psychology, social sciences and technologists”  that is important to nurture and grow.