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Stokes County Health Director Scott Lenhart told the County Board of Commissioners Monday that the health of the county had improved in recent years. “There is a lot I would like to see done, but are we better than we were...

Quality of life is integral to a healthy community, and mental health services must not be omitted from that discussion. According to a national Health and Human Services survey, approximately 20 percent of adults (at least 18 years old) experienced...

Call it CPR for the psyche. Shasta College will begin offering Mental Health First Aid training later this month. Students will learn how to identify the warning signs of a mental illness — whether an acute episode or the early signs...

“No one should ever be defined by an illness,” says Angela Adkins, executive director for DuPage NAMI, an affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. So, NAMI has been operating as a good Samaritan to the mentally ill and their...

Youth Dynamics helps Montana children and teens with behavioral or mental health issues. The ‘Youth Mental Health First Aid’ class is designed to teach individuals to better identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses. They prepare individuals to...

Although the last Congress was criticized for lack of action, it got quite a bit done on behavioral health, including passage of the Excellence in Mental Health Act and funding for mental health first-aid training. But those are just first...

Hundreds of thousands of people in communities across the country have been trained in mental health first aid through a network of certified instructors and Shasta College Community Education is pleased to be offering this course beginning in March. 02/27/2015...

Care Plus NJ, Inc. (CarePlus) headquartered in Paramus, NJ and Turning Point Inc. of Paterson have partnered to create an innovative program to help adolescents and adults who are struggling with substance use challenges and, in some cases, mental health...

Democratic Rep. Lori Berman of Lantana recently filed a mental health crisis prevention bill in the Florida House designed to increase preventative mental health care, a social service offered on a very limited basis if at all by Florida’s lean state government....

Instructors from Emergence Health Network taught the counselors how to respond to a mental health crisis, and to recognize when a person might be developing a mental illness like anxiety, bipolar disorder or major depression. 02/26/2015 Link to Source

Reaffirming her strong commitment to furthering mental health care in the State of Florida, Representative Berman filed HB 811. The legislation, entitled Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), aids in the identification, understanding and response to the signs of mental illness...

In response to the growing public health problem of mental illness and substance abuse, the Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA is joining forces with an array of community partners to bring greater awareness to the issue and to the important role of...