Mental Health First Aid Training

Are you interested in helping support students experiencing mental health challenges? ACPS is excited to offer three Mental Health First Aid training opportunities this summer, available to all staff!

Mental Health First Aid helps individuals assist someone who is experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.

The Mental Health First Aid training is a hybrid model that will require about 2 hours of pre-work before a 4-hour in-person training session. The session will cover the ALGEE action plan for supporting youth experiencing a mental health challenge:

Assess for risk of suicide or harm
Listen nonjudgmentally
Give reassurance and information
Encourage appropriate professional help
Encourage self-help and other support strategies

Summer 2024 Mental Health First Aid Training Opportunities:

• Monday, July 22 | 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Wednesday, July 24 | 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Thursday, July 25 | 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Hint: Click the “Sections” tab to register.

For more information about this training, visit Mental Health First Aid: What You Learn or contact Miles Nelson, Coordinator of Mental Health & Wellness.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

Are you interested in a more in-depth training to help individuals experiencing suicidal ideation? ACPS is excited to offer Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) this summer for administrators, counselors, and staff who have completed the Mental Health First Aid training.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is the most widely used intervention skills workshop in the U.S. The two-day intensive and practice-dominated course is designed to help caregivers:

• Recognize the risk for suicide
• Intervene to prevent immediate harm
• Create a “safety for now” plan
• Link persons with thoughts of suicide to appropriate help and community resources.

Summer 2024 Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training:

Tuesday, July 23 & Wednesday, July 24
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(Two-Day Training)

Note: Please register for this course only if you can attend both full-day sessions.

Hint: Click the “Sections” tab to register.

For more information about this training, contact Miles Nelson, Coordinator of Mental Health & Wellness.