One session from 9:00am to 2:00pm PT
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AIM’s Youth Mental Health First Aid Program provides education about youth mental health struggles and the importance of early intervention. We seek to educate adults to intervene early to prevent more serious symptoms and disorders from developing.
Adults can get trained in Youth Mental Health First Aid to recognize and respond to mental health challenges in young people, creating a community where youth can grow into mentally healthy adults.
It is a skills-based training that teaches adults how to identify, understand and respond to an adolescent (ages 12-18) who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge.
One session from 9:00am to 2:00pm PT
One session from 9:00am to 2:00pm PT
Two sessions from 6:00pm to 8:30pm PT
One session from 9:00am to 2:00pm PT
One session from 9:00am to 2:00pm PT
Youth Mental Health First Aid is available in English and Spanish. The training teaches a five-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations. It is a 7-hour training in total that consists of two hours of self-paced online asynchronous pre-work, followed by a 5-hour Instructor Led Session.
AIM offers trainings for groups of 10 or more, virtually or in-person. This is a great option for an organization or school that would like to train their full staff.
Click here to see the list of the organizations and groups whose teams have been trained by AIM. Email Olivia Schultheis at [email protected] to schedule a group training.
The US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued a report and call to action focused on the mental health crisis faced by our nation’s children, teens, and young adults. “The challenges today’s generation of young people face are unprecedented and uniquely hard to navigate,” he wrote. “And the effect these challenges have had on their mental health is devastating.”
The urgency of the Surgeon General’s call to action is underscored by 2020 data:
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