Courses Offered

This course is open to the general public.  Anyone working – or living – in the community will benefit from this activity-based training.  Mental Health First Aid teaches participants how to handle mental health crises, which can happen anywhere, at any time.  There are no prerequisites, and no previous experience is necessary.  Join us for this enlightening course that is becoming more and more relevant in our changing world.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help. This interactive training course utilizes a variety of different activities and modes of learning, including:

• Role playing
• Scenarios
• Discussion
• Video
• Simulation

Course Information

• Course materials, refreshments and lunch (for full, in-person classes held in the Twin Cities) are included in the course fee
• Pre-registration is required, register early! Class size is limited.
• Video/audio taping of courses is prohibited