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September 22, 2015

What Would You Do? Your Role In Suicide Prevention

For Hilda, there was no question. She turned to the skills she learned in the eight-hour 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

Bringing mental health out of the darkness

As we find ourselves in National Suicide Prevention Month, it’s hard not to take this loss with a special kind…

Mental Health Stigma, Mental Illness, News, Suicide Prevention
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 19, 2015

Guest column: Cyclists’ message — There is a role for…

The Mental Health First Aid program, which the Black Dog Riders are riding to support, is a way to ensure…

Black Dog Ride, News, Suicide Prevention
September 18, 2015

The Badass Way These Australian Bikers Are Bringing Suicide Awareness…

The proceeds raised from this ride will go to Mental Health First Aid USA, providing scholarships for first responders and…

Black Dog Ride, News, Suicide Prevention
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 15, 2015

Black Dog Ride across USA begins

Black Dog Ride is partnering with Mental Health First Aid USA to raise awareness and funds for Mental Health First…

Black Dog Ride, Mental Health First Aid, News
September 11, 2015

Strengthening the Specialty Addictions Sector

This editorial appears in the addictions issue of National Council Magazine. By: Becky Vaughn , Vice President of Addictions, National Council…

Addictions providers, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, News, Specialty Addictions, Uncategorized, UNITE to Face Addiction...
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