Community Health and Wellness Education Program (CHWEP)
CHWEP offers a three part mini-series titled “Stress and Your Health” that aids in understanding the relationship between physical and mental health. Each workshop is approximately two hours long and features an interactive presentation accompanied by education materials and referral information.
Topics Covered:
Depression and Diabetes
Depression and Cardiovascular Disease
Depression and Cancer
Emerging Leadership Institute (ELI)
ELI provides training and technical assistance to mental health consumers to empower them to actively participate in their communities. ELI is an 8-hour training with six distinct modules to choose from focusing on leadership development and interpersonal skills. Individuals can choose to attend one session or all 6, and upon completion, can participate in follow-up group meetings with peers and community leaders for networking opportunities.
Modules:
Developing Leadership Skills
Working with Groups
Board and Committee Participation
Applying Leadership
Getting Involved With Your Community
Overcoming Barriers
Upcoming ELI Training Dates:
May 21st and 22nd from 10 am - 1 pm
ELI trainings will take place in MHAAC's conference room, and light refreshments will be provided.
Special Education Fundamentals
30-minute guided Power Point presentations are available to provide a better understanding of some of the disabilities and services that affect students who may qualify for special education.
Available presentations include:
All About AD/HD
All About Autism
Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
The ABC’s of IEP’s!
The Disability Movement: Our Culture. Our Community.
Front Line Worker Training
A three part training for workers who have regular contact with people but have little formal training about mental health. The goal is to help frontline staff learn about common mental disorders that may affect clients they serve, teach them skills that will help them to effectively communicate with these clients and make an appropriate referral. Each module is 2 hours long and is delivered by a trained facilitator.
Topics covered include:
Understanding Depression
Things you need to know about psychosis
Drug and alcohol problems.
Suicide Prevention
This training is offered to various community groups and organizations to increase awareness and prevention efforts. This is a one-hour training where participants learn myths about suicide, warning signs, and tips to help prevent suicide. Specialized trainings are available for youth, older adults, and LGBT populations.
Stigma & Mental Health
Speakers are available to participate in organizational trainings and community outreach events to present information about mental health stigma and its effects.
General Mental Health
These trainings are geared towards providers who would like a general overview for staff on various mental health topics. Presentations are developed in collaboration with organizations.
Past presentations have included:
General Depression
Depression and Older Adults
Suicide Prevention
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
QPR Certification
QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer, an emergency mental health intervention for suicidal persons created by Paul Quinnett.
This national prevention model is a one-hour training that provides information about three simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. People trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warnings signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. A certified facilitator provides this training, and participants are eligible to receive CEU’s through the QPR institute.
As a QPR-trained Gatekeeper, you will learn to:
Recognize the warning signs of suicide
Know how to offer hope
Know how to get help and save a life
Mental Health Advanced Directives (MHAD)
An MHAD is a document that allows you to make your choices known regarding mental health treatment in the event that your mental illness causes you to be unable to make decisions. In effect, you are making decisions about treatment prior to the time that you may need it. MHAAC provides workshops and individual assistance on how to make an MHAD.
Wellness
This three part training series is aimed at improving overall mental wellness. The series is offered at the MHAAC offices in East Liberty on a semi-annual basis and can also be scheduled in partnership with other agencies or groups in the community. Each training is one hour long and is adaptable based on individual group needs.
The current series includes:
Financial Wellness
Healthy Eating
Getting Active
