Contact
Marcia RamstromLotus Educational Services, Inc.
530-440-6033
MarciaR@LotusEducationalServices.com
This training includes the 8-hour course, participant manual, local resources, and 3-year certificate.
This is for the Adult MHFA Course. Check our trainings calendar for information about other upcoming trainings, or to schedule a training for your school, agency or organization.
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FREE! Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
Training & Certification Course
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID MATTERS.
Most of us would know how to help if we saw someone having a heart attack—we’d start CPR, or at the very least, call 9-1-1. But too few of us would know how to respond if we saw someone having a panic attack or if we were concerned that a friend or co-worker might be showing signs of alcoholism.
Mental Health First Aid takes the fear and hesitation out of starting conversations about mental health and substance use problems by improving understanding and providing an action plan that teaches people to safely and responsibly identify and address a potential mental illness or substance use disorder.
More than 1.5 million people across the United States have been trained in Mental Health First Aid!
Mental health has long been relegated to the shadows. For centuries, mental illness was poorly understood; those affected by it, marginalized and cast out of society. Even in recent years, people have been reluctant to discuss their mental health. Some still are. Increasingly, though, we’re shining the light on mental illness — bringing it out of the shadows and into the open.
COURSE DETAILS:
Mental Health First Aid teaches participants a five-step action plan, ALGEE, to support someone developing signs and symptoms of a mental illness or experiencing an emotional crisis:
Assess for risk of suicide or harm
Listen nonjudgmentally
Give reassurance and information
Encourage appropriate professional help
Encourage self-help and other support strategies
NEW SECTION ADDED IN MAY 2018: The Opioid Response Supplement
The opioid epidemic is now the deadliest drug overdose crisis in U.S. history: every day, more than 115 Americans die from opioid overdoses. If this epidemic remains unchecked, it has the potential to claim 1 million lives by 2020.
Empowering people to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose is vital to saving lives.
Following the surgeon general’s recent call to action for more Americans to carry an opioid overdose antidote, Naloxone, Mental Health First Aid has created a new component to our Adult curriculum that addresses this very need:
The Opioid Response Supplement teaches all who take Adult Mental Health First Aid how to recognize and respond to risk factors and signs and symptoms of an overdose, as well as how to administer the opioid overdose antidote, Naloxone.
Thursday, May 23rd
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Burney Presbyterian Church
20435 Marquette St.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Lotus Educational Services has partnered with Shasta County HHSA to bring this world-wide training to your area. Limited to the first 30 people to register, so sign up now!