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Adult Mental Health First Aid
You are more likely to encounter someone in an emotional or mental crisis than someone having a heart attack.
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning sign of mental illnesses, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews community supports. This 8-hour course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to offer initial help in a mental health crisis and connect persons to the appropriate professional, peer, social and self-help care. The program also teaches the common risk factors and warning signs of specific types of illnesses, like anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.
Like CPR, Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a person in crisis and connect the person with help. First Aiders do not take on the role of professionals – they do not diagnose or provide any counseling. Instead, the program offers concrete tools and answers lay questions, like “what do I do?” and “where can someone find help.”
You are more likely to encounter someone in an emotional or mental crisis than someone having a heart attack.
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning sign of mental illnesses, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews community supports. This 8-hour course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to offer initial help in a mental health crisis and connect persons to the appropriate professional, peer, social and self-help care. The program also teaches the common risk factors and warning signs of specific types of illnesses, like anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.
Like CPR, Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a person in crisis and connect the person with help. First Aiders do not take on the role of professionals – they do not diagnose or provide any counseling. Instead, the program offers concrete tools and answers lay questions, like “what do I do?” and “where can someone find help.”