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St. Clair County Community Mental Health is offering free Mental Health First Aid training to residents of St. Clair County. According to SCCCMH, one in five Americans suffers from mental illness. Many of these people are reluctant to seek help, stated...

Do you know how to respond to someone exhibiting unusual behavior such as severe anxiety, panic, or hearing voices that you can’t hear or seeing images that you can’t see? Mental Health and Recovery for Licking and Knox Counties (MHR)...

Groups say illnesses are all the same whether physical or mental. 01/16/2015 Link to Source

The Reading Public Schools is pleased to add 10 new instructors from Reading to the Mental Health First Aid team from the Pittsburgh, Penn., training session (November 2014) and Foxborough, Mass., training session (January 2015). 01/15/2015 Link to Source

National Rural Health Resource Center recently presented Sanpete Valley Hospital with the Critical Access Hospital Recognition Certificate based on the hospital’s behavioral/mental health outreach efforts in the Sanpete community. 01/15/2015 Link to Source

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...

Only 20 percent of children with mental health issues are actually identified and receive mental health services each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in Minnesota 01/15/2015 Link to Source

Local and area law enforcement agencies and representatives from the courts and jails are praising the efforts of a relatively new statewide initiative that creates the position of a community mental health liaison to give authorities additional resources when encountering...

This week in Helena a group of nearly 30 people has gathered to learn how to spot signs of mental health issues in Montana youth and in turn teach others to do the same.  01/12/2015  Link to Source

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday touted progress made through a two-year-old mental health initiative and asked Northeast Missouri law enforcement and public health officials how to continue improving the state’s response to mental health concerns. 01/14/2015 Link to Source

Georgia State University’s School of Public Health has received a five-year, $800,000 contract from the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) to coordinate Youth Mental Health First Aid Training (YMHFA) and other professional development efforts designed to improve services for Georgia’s...

The Jan. 8, 2011 mass shooting put the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in the spotlight. “The biggest thing we took from that is that there’s a gap. A need for mental health first aid training for our officers and deputies,” said...