Mental Health Awareness Training

Mental health stigmas can often come from either a place of fear or a lack of understanding. Unfortunately, this combination can foster a negative view of individuals who are dealing with mental health issues.

The concept of mental health stigma is more nuanced than one catch-all attitude. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) lists three different types of stigmas. The first type, public stigma, refers to the negative attitudes others possess about mental illness. The second type, self-stigma, involves the negative attitudes that people with mental illness have regarding their own illness. The third type is institutional stigma. This is a systemic stigma involving private and government agencies limiting treatment opportunities for mental illnesses via actions like lowering funding for mental illness research.

Mental Health Awareness Training

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Reasons to get trained in mental health awareness.

1. Building awareness

Become more aware of what can help or harm the well-being of themselves and others, whether this is at work or at home.

2. Challenging stigma

Through discussions and exercises, mental health training can break down stigma to demonstrate how prevalent mental health problems are. Training can also help encourage empathy by asking others to imagine or remember a situation that could have impacted their own mental well-being.

3. Building coping strategies

It’s not always possible to remove everything that can be detrimental to our mental health, training can help individuals build resilience to stress. The strategies learned course can help reduce the impact of stress, optimizing people’s well-being both at home and at work.

4. Encouraging an open culture

By learning together as a group and sharing their vulnerabilities, teams are encouraged to see their colleagues in a relatable way, which can in turn help foster openness.

5. Encouraging Champions for Change

Taking part in mental health training can help community members picture ways in which they could become advocates for change.

6. Understanding how to best support others

It can sometimes be difficult to know the right thing to do or say to help someone, even if we have the best intentions. Mental health training provides the tools to know how to have helpful, kind conversations around mental well-being and spot when others may need more specialized support.

7. Building teams that prioritize well-being

Leaders play an essential role in fostering positive well-being in their team. Mental health training can help leaders understand how to build team resilience and recognize factors that can help or hinder wellbeing.

AS+K? Gatekeeper Training

AS+K? About Suicide To Save A Life (Basic) provides participants with an overview of the basic epidemiology of suicide and suicidal behavior, including risk and protective factors. In this one hour e-learning based course, participants are trained to recognize warning signs—behaviors and characteristics that might indicate elevated risk for suicidal behavior—and the initial intervention steps to support a person they think might be at risk for suicide. Please note this course is designed for public health information purposes only and is not designed to assess, screen, diagnose or treat any mental or physical health condition. If you or someone you know may be at risk of suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 (TALK) to receive qualified support and care. If you are in a crisis situation, do not wait. Call 9-1-1 or your mental health provider.

Thank you so much for this information Karen. I wanted to let you know that because of your class and the information you provide I was able to help save someone’s life. On Tuesday a man was driving down my street and pulled over. He opened his door and yelled out for help. He was having difficulty breathing. I wasn’t sure if it was a panic attack or a medical emergency. I started to ask the questions that y’all reviewed with us in class and ended up contacting 911. I informed him that I would stay with him until professional help arrived. This had never happened to him before and he was scared. I am thankful to have taken the class and have the tools to help this person. Thank you for what you do and the difference you make.

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