Mental Health First Aid
Instructor: Katie Robberson, SIUE School of Business
Fee: $ 250 (Includes course instruction and parking)
Course Description
Mental Health First Aid is an early intervention public education program. It teaches you how to recognize the signs and symptoms that suggest a potential mental health challenge, how to listen nonjudgmentally, and give reassurance to someone who may be experiencing a mental health challenge, and how to refer a person to appropriate professional support and services.
MHFA was created in Australia in 2000 by Betty Kitchener, an educator and mental health consumer, and Professor Tony Jorm, a mental health researcher. In 2008, the National Council for Behavioral Health, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health brought Mental Health First Aid to the United States. Since that time over 2 million people have been trained as Mental Health First Aiders.
The course is designed to teach people how to approach, assess, and assist a person who may be in the early stages of developing a mental health challenge or in a mental health crisis.
Registration
Register OnlineQuestions? Call 618-650-5440.
Individual Course Cancellation and Refund Policy
The SIUE Executive Education division of the School of Business reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course when necessary. If we cancel or postpone a course for any reason, you may choose to receive a FULL refund or apply the course fee to a subsequent offering of the same or a similar course. The latter option may be exercised within one calendar year of the original course.
If you register and pay for a course and then withdraw a one week or more before the start date of the course, a full refund of the course fee less an administrative fee of $25 will be made.
If cancellation occurs less than one week before the start date of the course, no refund of the course fee will be made; however, at the discretion of the Director of Executive Education Programs, the course fee may be applied to a subsequent offering of the same or similar course with a course fee that is at least equal to the cost of the original course. If the course fee of a subsequent course exceeds the amount paid for the original course, the difference in the course fee amounts must be paid in full prior to the start of the subsequent course. An approved substitution must occur within one calendar year of the original course.
