Our community mental health trainings workshops combine learning with hands-on activities to help participants recognize signs and symptoms associated with common mental health challenges, develop practical coping skills to assist themselves and others, and learn the importance of prioritizing mental well-being. These trainings are designed to increase mental health literacy, reduce stigma associated with mental illness, and normalize conversations about challenging topics to raise awareness and foster a culture of empathy and resilience.
Available Trainings and Workshops:
Mental Health First Aid
Hearing Voices
Stress Management
Mental Health Overview
Compassion Fatigue
Mindfulness
Emotional Regulation
Managing Grief
Mental Health First Aid
Posted:
Modules: Adult | Youth | Public Safety | Older Adults | Veterans | Higher Education
Duration: 8 hours
Description of Course:
Just as CPR helps you to assist an individual having a heart attack — even if you have no clinical training — Mental Health First Aid helps you to assist someone experiencing a mental health-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid Course, you will learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. You will learn how to apply the Mental Health First Aid action plan in a variety of situations, including when someone is experiencing:
- Panic attacks
- Suicidal thoughts or behavior
- Non-suicidal self-injury
- Acute psychosis (e.g., hallucination or delusions)
- Overdose or withdrawal from alcohol or drug use
- Reaction to a traumatic event
Mental Health Overview
Posted:
Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour
Description of Course:
Customized workshop designed to meet the needs of participants. Sample topics:
Course Objectives:
- Anger Management
- Motivational Interviewing
- Personality Disorders
- PTSD
- Verbal De-escalation
- Wellness
Mindfulness
Posted:
Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour
Description of Course:
In this interactive workshop, an overview of mindfulness and its positive effects will be provided along with instruction and practice of a variety of easy and accessible mindfulness-based stress-reduction techniques.
Course Objectives:
- Describe mindfulness.
- Understand the positive effects of mindfulness.
- Utilize and/or explain one or more simple mindfulness-based stress-reduction practices for purposes of self-care and/or helping others to experience such practices.
Compassion Fatigue
Posted:
Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour
Description of Course:
Participants explore the features, symptoms, and risk factors of compassion fatigue, along with self-awareness exercises and self-care strategies as key components for prevention.
Course Objectives:
- Define compassion fatigue.
- Understand the difference between compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue.
- Understand the difference between burnout and secondary trauma as features of compassion fatigue.
- Identify symptoms and risk factors of compassion fatigue.
- Utilize various self-awareness exercises to identify one’s risk of developing compassion fatigue.
- Identify and understand how to apply the ABC’s of preventing compassion fatigue (awareness, balance, connections) and key components of self-care (physical, psychological, behavioral).
Stress Management
Posted:
Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour
Description of Course:
In this interactive workshop, participants explore the nature, symptoms and effects of stress, along with various approaches to managing stress.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the nature of stress along with the concepts of “good stress” vs. “bad stress.”
- Understand the connection between how stress is triggered and natural responses to stress.
- Explore one’s current accumulation of life stressors and their potential impact on stress-induced health problems.
- Understand common physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive symptoms of stress.
- Understand the long-term effects of stress.
- Explore various stress management techniques and how they relate to the fight, flight and frozen responses to stress.
Hearing Voices
Posted:
Duration: Variable, 1.0 to 3.0 hours
Description of Course:
An experiential workshop that provides a unique opportunity for participants to learn about auditory hallucinations, through a simulation in which they hear voices while progressing through simple daily experiences. The workshop also provides an overview of mental and medical illnesses that cause hallucinations, with specific emphasis given to schizophrenia, as it is currently considered the mental illness in which hearing voices is most prevalent.
Course Objectives:
- Develop a better understanding of voice hearers.
- Identify medical conditions associated with hearing voices.
- Identify mental illnesses associated with hearing voices.
- Dispel myths about schizophrenia.
- Understand current research and diagnostic criteria related to schizophrenia.
- Identify the signs and symptoms of schizophrenia
For Emotional Regulation training information, contact Gia Washington at gwashington@sertomastar.org or 708-748-1951 X418
For Mapping and Managing Grief training information, contact Gia Washington at gwashington@sertomastar.org or 708-748-1951 X418
For training details, recommendations, or to request a training, contact Gia Washington at gwashington@sertomastar.org or 708-748-1951 X418.
