Mental Health First Aid Certification - Partnering with SteinbergHR

Mental Health First Aid certification provides a 3-year certification. It will teach you how to recognize the signs and symptoms that suggest a potential mental health challenge, how to listen nonjudgmentally and give reassurance to whom may be experiencing a mental health challenge, and how to refer a person to appropriate professional support and services.

Mental Health First Aid was created in Australia in 2000 by Betty Kitchener, an educator and mental health consumer, and Professor Tony Jorm, a mental health researcher. In 2008, the National Council, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health brought Mental Health First Aid to the United States.

What is the certification?

After you complete this session there will be a 3-year certification you will obtain and be able to recertify moving forward.

What it will cover?

• Common signs and symptoms of mental health challenges.
• Common signs and symptoms of substance use challenges.
• How to interact with a person in crisis.
• How to connect a person with help.
• Expanded content on trauma, substance use and self-care.

How we will learn?

Mental Health First Aid consists of 2-hours of self-paced content required to be completed prior to the 4.5 hours of instructor-led training in Brockton, MA at HarborOne Bank Corporate Office.

Giving Back - Annie's Kindness Blankets

We have also partnered with Annie's Kindness Blankets. We will during our time together make blankets to support such an important cause. Annie's Kindness Blankets is a pay it forward kindness campaign founded by the Varney sister's after they lost their mom to suicide. Since then, the AKB Team has grown to include 8 women who are dedicated to #bethevoice and help stop the stigma around depression & suicide. The purpose is to send an everlasting hug to anyone that may need. To let others know they are never alone. After we make these easy to make fleece blankets we will send along to the AKB team to distribute appropriately or keep ourself! Please visit here to learn more: http://www.annieskindnessblankets.org/

What the $25 goes toward?

This donation will go toward the lunch, a thank you for facilitators and blanket materials. Payment that may be in excess of this cost will be donated to Annie’s Kindness Blankets.

Host or Publisher Meghan Steinberg, SteinbergHR