MHFA
For Higher Education

This course is for anyone connected to a higher education setting including students

Prepare your campus to address mental health and substance use challenges commonly experienced in higher education settings. Developed by people with lived experience of mental health challenges and a variety of professionals, this course teaches early intervention techniques, improves mental health literacy, helps you identify and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use challenges, and provides valuable resources locally and nationally.

Mental Health First Aid for Higher Education will help decrease stigma, address tough challenges, and allow students, professors, and other school faculty to show up fully in their daily lives and support those around them. Participants learn the relevance of mental health to the campus community, risk factors and protective factors specific to the higher education setting, and how to use the MHFA Action Plan (ALGEE) in scenarios designed specifically for faculty, administration, and students.

Requirements

Participants must be at least 18 years old to enroll in a course.

All courses are taught in person and are scheduled in either a one-session (8-hour) day or a two-session (4 hours each) within four calendar days (i.e. Monday and Thursday, Tuesday and Friday, or Tuesday/Wednesday)

Please consider organizing one on your campus. To get additional information contact Stephanie Hartman, Mental Health First Aid Training Coordinator at shartman@cbhcare.org.

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