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Mental Health First Aid for Emergency Management Mental Health First Aid for Emergency Management
Mental Health First Aid teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This training gives you the skills you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.
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Grow their knowledge of signs, symptoms and risk factors of mental illnesses and addictions
Can identify multiple types of professional and self-help resources for individuals with a mental illness or addiction
Increase their confidence in and likelihood to help an individual in distress
Show increased mental wellness themselves
Studies also show that the program reduces the social distance created by negative attitudes and perceptions of individuals with mental illnesses
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