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

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
Customized workshop designed to meet the needs of participants. Sample topics:

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.

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.

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.

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
Participants will explore the sources and nature of conflict, and complete various exercises designed to identify their individual conflict management styles and increase their repertoire of conflict management strategies.

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, Refer and is the CPR of mental health.

Duration: Variable, with a minimum of 1.0 hour

Description of Course:
Suicide prevention course that teaches participants how to help someone who may be considering suicide.

Participants will explore what it means to be a culturally competent practitioner when interacting with individuals and families receiving services, as well as peers who are providing such services. Core practitioner competencies will be defined and introduced by providing a brief overview of their contribution to increasing one’s abilities as a culturally competent practitioner.