Becky Stanley and Malinda Bailey were recently training in Topeka mental health first aid trainer seek certificate. You work Iola absence of Southeast Kansas mental health center.(Submitted photo)Southeast Kansas mental health center, serves a six County area, including Bourbon, has the first mental health first aid program in Iola tried.
SEKMHC will train first responders, education staff, clergy and the public to improve the mental health of Literacy--helps to identify them, to understand and react to signs of mental illness.
"We are excited that to bring mental health first aid for our community", Executive Director Robert F. Chase said in a press release. "This important educational effort goes much further than emergency intervention;" It really helps people understand the cooling housing facing individuals and families, the mental illness fear and misjudgment and looking to experience. "It helps to rid the community of stigma associated and move more and more people towards recovery."
Mental health first aid is a 12-hour certification training that teaches participants to write a review a five step action plan a situation, select and device interventions and secure appropriate care for the individual. The certification program provides participants the risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding its impact and provides overviews of common treatments. Thorough evaluation in randomized controlled trials and a quantitative study have the CPR-like program effective in improving learners increase knowledge of mental disorders, reducing the stigma and the help provided to others.
"Mental health center participation and enthusiasm in the mental health first aid community, welcome southeast Kansas", says Linda Rosenberg, President and CEO of the National Council for community behavioral healthcare, the Organization, the mental health first aid in the United States brought in 2008. "We know they have a major impact on the mental health communities in the entire state of Kansas, and nationwide are key players in improving the mental health literacy."
The pilot year introduced the program in almost 20 States and more than 40 communities across the country. The National Council certified Malinda Bailey, Director of children's services and Becky Stanley, executive assistant, the mental health first aid program in March 2011, by instructor certification course in Topeka. Southeast Kansas mental health center and sites across the nation, which replicated the program maintain strict fidelity to the original, proven version, said the publication.
Stanley said people Cancome to the Iola Office, or she and Bailey could various groups such as human resources go "Who." departments, schools, and Volkshochschulen-- more about mental illness
There are those, who take a way of approaching the program to someone in crisis, and offers questions, as they are doing someone steps and provide resources that could help them, said Stanley. Security is another aspect of the mental health first aid where trainers teach people that they can approach someone, or should call law enforcement agencies.
"So often, maybe people want to respond and do not know how, or maybe they're afraid to respond." This is education of the participants, hopefully reducing the stigma of understanding signs and symptoms of "Mental illness and what can be done to it to help suffering, she said."
"I hope that participants learn as more people with mental illness to be empathetic, or perhaps they know that someone and would like to learn, a bit more," added Stanley.
Mental health first aid comes under the auspices of the ORYGEN Research Centre at the University of Melbourne in Australia under the direction of MHFA founder Betty Kitchener and Tony Jorm. So far it has been implemented worldwide, Scotland, England, Canada, Finland and Singapore in six other countries including Hong Kong.
Run training Bailey, Stanley to southeast Kansas health center, (620) 365-8641 to learn more or to participate in a mental health first aid mental.
Southeast Kansas mental health center is a community mental health center offers individual, couples and family therapy, adults and children employment, case management, parent support, chemical abuse support advice and medication management for the citizens of Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Linn, Neosho and Woodson counties. Charges are based on a sliding scale according to household income and number of the members. Offices are located in Iola, Humboldt, Chanute, Garnett, Yates Center, Fort Scott and Pleasanton. "Mental health community centres in Kansas"Gatekeeper"for State are in hospital," said Stanley. Each risk, yourself or someone else will be screened through the centres, whether State hospital stay is appropriate.
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