My university is offering a course this summer to get certified with Mental Health First Aid for free, so I've signed up and am starting that this week. It's a 2-hour self-guided online course and then a 6 hour online meeting where we're learning how to respond to mental health crises (and what a mental health and substance abuse crisis can look like). According to the site: "is an evidence-based, early-intervention course that teaches participants about mental health and substance use challenges."
Sure the certificate is nice, but I'm genuinely interested in knowing steps to help in case that happens to someone I know or work with in the future. It costs to become an instructor, but from what I can tell it's free to re-certify. Pretty neat.
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