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Cupps said students need to have access to what he called “mental health first aid,” the ability to get help to cope with what can be an overwhelming adjustment to college that can lead to illness or worse. 02/06/2015 Link...

A disgruntled woman was sprawled on the floor of a room in the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Commerce City with a tequila bottle in her shaking hand. Rogelio Garcia, a probation officer with the county, crouched down to her...

One in five children between the ages of 9 and 17 has a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Yet only 20 percent of those children receive mental health services. 02/05/2015...

Coast students are smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and using marijuana more than the provincial average and their mental health is a concern, according to the recent McCreary Centre Society report. The report breaks down the provincial results of the society’s 2013...

Leslie Roberts recalls hearing a mother talk about getting her stepson admitted to a psychiatric hospital. “Her stepson was angry and acting out,” said Roberts. “She didn’t understand what her stepson was doing.” The woman had completed a mental health first...

First responders were dying in Ontario at the rate of one suicide per week in 2014. I didn’t know this sad statistic until a great paramedic in my group gave us this awareness 02/03/2015 Link to Source

Just about a year ago Chester County launched a campaign to provide mental health education to residents through Mental Health First Aid. The internationally recognized program is designed to teach everyday citizens the skills to help another person who is...

Today, the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act passed in the United States Senate. It previously passed the House of Representatives in January. This legislation is named after Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Clay Hunt who was a...

The Mental Health Commission of Canada’s mental health first aid workshops offer the Church three things: 1. Exposure to the language of mental health professionals, thus aiding communication when parishioners are referred for help; 2. Exposure to psychiatry’s understanding and treatment...

In an effort to share potentially life-saving information about mental health, Sweetser, a nonprofit mental health organization with locations throughout Maine, is offering courses in Mental Health First Aid® as a community education program. 02/02/2015 Link to Source

Through funding from the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Now is the Time Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education for State Educational Agencies (NITT-AWARE-SEA) grant, the California Department of Education (CDE)...

By the end of this year, every municipal police officer in the state should receive training, similar to Mental Health First Aid, thanks to a collaborative effort among the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, the Department of Mental...