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September 24, 2015

Australian motorcyclists ride through Oklahoma City for mental health awareness

A band of 65 Australian motorcyclists are visiting Oklahoma City on their first “Black Dog Ride” across the United States.…

Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News, Suicide Prevention
September 24, 2015

Englewood creates taskforce to combat mental illness stigma – Health…

Municipal officials are continuing their efforts to make the city stigma free when it comes to mental illnesses by creating…

Mental Health, Mental Health Stigma, News
September 23, 2015

What Would You Do? Your Role In Suicide Prevention

Hilda Marie’s worst nightmare was unfolding right before her eyes. Teetering at the edge of the platform was a woman…

Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News, Suicide Prevention
September 21, 2015

Australian bikers roar into Blowing Rock

The Black Dog Riders had just finished the fourth leg of a 21-day ride that will take them from New…

Depression, Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News, Suicide Prevention
September 21, 2015

A look at some places training lay people in mental…

Mental health first aid — as laid out in a program designed by an Australian psychologist and his wife, a…

algee, Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News
September 20, 2015

NYC trains lay people as mental health screeners

The training session asked workers how they would respond to troubled people — a drug user, an abuse victim or…

Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News, Workforce
September 18, 2015

Be Nice is back to school

“Be Nice.” is a mental health awareness, anti-bullying and suicide prevention program that wants schools, workplaces and all of the…

Mental Health, News, Youth Mental Health
September 17, 2015

Mental health program pilots a therapeutic vegetable garden

There was possibility in that empty lot, Fioravanti figured: If grass and weeds could grow there, why couldn’t vegetables? And,…

Mental Health, News
September 16, 2015

N.H. Responders Get ‘Mental Health First Aid’ Training

People trained in first aid know the importance of their ABCs when dealing with a medical patient. Airway, breathing and…

Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News
September 10, 2015

Parents, unemployed focus of NYC mental-health experiment

A $30 million, city-sponsored experiment in training non-professionals to provide mental health help will focus on people who work with…

Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News
September 2, 2015

For Mental Health Awareness and Fundraising, Australian Motorcyclists Hit the…

Sixty-five Australian motorcyclists, in a nation over 15,000 miles from home, departSunday, Sept. 13 on a U.S. cross-country odyssey to…

Depression, Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, News, Suicide Prevention
August 31, 2015

A New Skill for Corrections Professionals: Mental Health First Aid

Training the entire staff of a large organization in something new and innovative is no easy task. So accomplishing that…

Law Enforcement, Mental Health, Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health Services, Mental Illness, News