Location: Zoom (Zoom, Zo)
Audience: school staff, social workers, coaches, law enforcement, camp counselors, youth group leaders, clergy, and parents
Dates: 8/10/2023
Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is an evidence-based training that teaches participants how to identify, understand and respond to a young person who may be experiencing a mental health or substance-use challenge, a mental health illness or a mental health crisis and how to connect them with appropriate professional, peer, social or self-help care. The course teaches participants how to use a 5-step action plan for both crisis and non-crisis situations.
Complete the course and get
certified as a Youth Mental Health First Aider by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing for three years.
Requirements:
Complete a required 2-hour self - paced online class ("Pre-work”), participate in a virtual 6-hour instructor-led training.
The 2-hour self-paced online training must be completed 1 week prior to 8/10/23.
Laptop or desktop computer with a camera and sound
Participants must be present 90% of the time to get certified by the National Council for Mental
Wellbeing as Youth Mental Health First Aiders.
Participants who register for the training will receive an email from Karen Roselle-kroselleymhfa@gmail.com with directions to complete an account profile and to access and complete the required Pre-work.
The course is offered for FREE through a federal (SAMHSA) grant awarded to Community Synergy, a non-profit organization and in conjunction with Rockland Teachers' Center.
This
course is offered to any adult over the age of 18.