Mental Health First Aid training at SLU

Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use challenges. Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a medical emergency, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health challenge or crisis.

Saint Louis University offers training for faculty, staff and students. Individuals can register themselves or groups can register to train their entire organization or department (max of 30 participants at a time).
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Transcript:

Tori Harwood | Wellness Coordinator
00:00:04:07
Mental Health First Aid training is a new training
to Saint Louis University, very similar to CPR first aid training,
but very mental health specific. Mental first aid is super important
for our student population, specifically because our students are the first ones to sometimes step in
and help another student.

Kingsley Anyaso | Graduate Hall Coordinator
00:00:22:06 - 00:00:26:03
There is a mental health crisis
everywhere, especially here in the United States. For someone who has gone
through this training process, they will be able to identify
those signs of mental health struggle or substance use from either their friends
or whoever is close by to them.

Eric Anderson | Assistant Vice President of Student Well-Being
00:00:38:18 - 00:00:42:04
It helps all of us understand what are common mental health challenges, what are the signs and symptoms. And then from there,
what we can do as a friend, as a coworker, as a student,
as a bystander to be able to step in and assist someone who might be experiencing
a mental health challenge.

Tori Harwood | Wellness Coordinator
00:01:01:15 - 00:01:03:02
Individuals are going to learn what to do if someone
is having suicidal ideations, for example, and how to get them support
and what to do in that crisis, but also learn things as simple as
what if someone's having a little bit of anxiety, early
signs and symptoms, and what we can do in that early intervention window to make
sure someone can get the care early because we know the earlier they get the care,
the better for their recovery. It brings all of our education
and awareness up to another level to better serve one another, particularly
when it comes to mental health.