An early-intervention course developed for members of the Public Safety community to teach them how to assist and support a peer or someone in the field who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge.
Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety provides law officers and staff with more response options to help them de-escalate incidents and better understand mental illnesses so they can respond to mental health-related situations appropriately without compromising safety. Learn more: download the Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety one-pager.
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Case Study
How Mental Health First Aid in Public Safety is helping Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
To read more about how Mental Health First Aid is helping critical populations, check out our case studies , or read our blog and filter by population type.
What we say and do in response to the signs and symptoms of a mental health or substance use challenge can have a tremendous impact on the perceptions, actions and outcomes of all involved. That’s really true for public safety officers! Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) focuses on identifying and responding to the early signs and symptoms of a challenge. After all, the earlier we […]...
