When: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 27th , 2016 from 8:00am – 4:30pm
Where: Talbot County Senior Center, Brookletts Place, Easton, MD
Presenters: Eastern Shore School Mental Heath Coalition in partnership with Mid-Shore Pro Bono.
Lunch will be provided. There is a $25 cost to cover materials. Please contact the Mental Health Association in Talbot County, 410-822-0444 or dmurphy@mhamdes.org for a registration form.
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Mid-Shore Pro Bono is pleased to be able to offer this training to attorneys, law firm staff and other non-profit agencies who may face challenging situations at work.
Mental Health First Aid USA
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental illnesses, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews common supports. This 8-hour course uses role-playing and simulations to demonstrate how to offer initial help in a mental health crisis and connect persons to the appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help care. The program also teaches the common risk factors and warning signs of specific types of illnesses, like anxiety, depression, substance use, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and schizophrenia.
Mental Health First Aid is included on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP).
COURSE DETAILS
Mental Health First Aid teaches participants a five-step action plan, ALGEE, to support someone developing signs and symptoms of a mental illness or in an emotional crisis:
® Assess for risk of suicide or harm
® Listen nonjudgmentally
® Give reassurance and information
® Encourage appropriate professional help
® Encourage self-help and other support strategies
Like CPR, Mental Health First Aid prepares participants to interact with a person in crisis and connect the person with help. First Aiders do not take on the role of professionals — they do not diagnose or provide any counseling or therapy. Instead, the program offers concrete tools and answers key questions, like “what do I do?” and “where can someone find help?” Certified Mental Health First Aid instructors provide a list of community healthcare providers and national resources, support groups, and online tools for mental health and addictions treatment and support. All trainees receive a program manual to compliment the course material.
To register for this training session, please contact the Mental Health Association in Talbot County, 410-822-0444 or dmurphy@mhamdes.org for a registration form. Space is limited. The cost is $25 to cover materials.
When: April 14, 2016
Time: 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Where: Chesapeake College
1000 College Circle, HEC Room 110
Wye Mills MD 21679
Open to: All Eastern Shore residents
In response to growing interest in the topic of traumatic brain injury and the impact the presence of a history of brain injury can have on access to and the delivery of behavioral health services, Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems is offering a half day training on TBI.
Individuals in need of mental health and substance related disorders treatment services may be living with neurobehavioral difficulties as a result of having sustained a TBI or multiple TBIs over the course of their lives. Consequently they can face challenges in both accessing and successfully utilizing behavioral health services.
Through a facilitated webinar and interactive exercises, this training will provide an overview of TBI, including the ramifications of unrecognized and undiagnosed brain injury, and its impact on behavioral health. Attendees will be introduced to a brief TBI screening tool that can be used to elicit an individual’s possible history of TBI. Accommodations and strategies to engage and support individuals living with TBI to maximize mental health and substance abuse treatment outcomes will be shared.
This letter is an invitation to attend this half-day training session, presented by Anastasia Edmonston, TBI and Person Centered Planner of the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration.
- Course Objectives – Participants will be able to:
- Identify common neurobehavioral barriers common to those living with a history of traumatic brain injury
- Be able to complete a simple TBI Screening tool
- Name at least three accommodations that can be used to support individuals living with brain injury participate in behavioral health services.
This training is co-sponsored by the Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems, Inc., The Maryland Behavioral Health Administration and the University of Maryland Training Center-CEUs for Social Workers, LCPC, and Psychologists will be offered as well as Certificates of Attendance.
If you have any questions, please contact Erica Horney, at Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems, ehorney@msmhs.org/410-770-4801, ext. 302.
As an accredited academic institution, the University of Maryland School of Medicine Training Center is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for 4 Continuing Education credits (Category 1) for licensed social workers in Maryland; as a sponsor of 4 Continuing Education (CE) acceptable to the Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists; and 4 Continuing Education Units (Category A) by the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists, upon completion of this training and a completed evaluation. The Training Center maintains responsibility for this program. A Certificate of Attendance will be made available for all other disciplines.
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING
Offered by Maryland Coalition of Families in partnership with Mental Health Association in Talbot County
March 11, 2016 from 8:30am-5:00pm
Pizza will be provided for lunch
Location: Kent County Library, Yellow Building, 207 Calvert St., Chestertown, MD 21620
About Youth Mental Health First Aid:
- Evidence-based training that teaches the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders.
- Provides individuals with tools to respond to a mental health emergency until professional help arrives.
- Provides action steps to take in order to help a young person ages 12-17 experiencing the early signs of a mental health disorder.
- Designed for parents, teachers and caregivers of that age group.
- COURSE OFFERED FREE OF CHARGE
With support from the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Foundation
All participants will be certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid and receive a certificate of completion valid for 3 years
For Professionals:
8 CEU’s available for social work, psychology, counseling (for a fee of $30) and nursing CEU’s are free
To register for this course contact Danielle Murphy with Mental Health Association in Talbot County at 410-822-0444 or email dmurphy@mhamdes.org
Offered by Maryland Coalition of Families in partnership with Mental Health Association in Talbot County
About Youth Mental Health First Aid:
- Evidence-based training that teaches the signs and symptoms of mental health disorders.
- Provides individuals with tools to respond to a mental health emergency until professional help arrives.
- Provides action steps to take in order to help a young person ages 12-17 experiencing the early signs of a mental health disorder.
- Designed for parents, teachers and caregivers of that age group.
Course offered free of charge. Please bring bag lunch. All participants will be certified in Youth Mental Health First Aid and receive a certificate of completion valid for 3 years.
For Professionals:
$15 fee for the manual. 8 CEU’s available for social work, psychology, counseling (for a fee of $30) and nursing CEU’s are free
To register for this course contact Danielle Murphy with Mental Health Association in Talbot County at 410-822-0444 or email dmurphy@mhamdes.org