Mental Health First Aid Training Opportunities

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Are you interested in helping support students experiencing mental health challenges?

Albemarle County Public Schools is excited to offer Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training 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

Spring 2022 Mental Health First Aid Training Sessions: Click here to register.

  • Tuesday, March 29 | 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. | Center I
  • Tuesday, April 19 | 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. | Center I
  • Tuesday, May 10 | 4 to 8 p.m. | Center I

Summer 2022 Mental Health First Aid Training Sessions: Click here to register.
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  • Tuesday, July 26 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Intervention Institute
  • Wednesday, July 27 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Intervention Institute
  • Thursday, July 28 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Intervention Institute

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