Lamoille County Mental Health Services is offering a free training on Mental Health First Aid, described as teaching how to help people developing a mental health illness or someone in a crisis.
The training will be offered on May 16, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Lamoille County Mental Health Services, 72 Harrel Street, Morrisville, Vermont. Attendance is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP to Nancy Welcome at 802-888-5026 x 103 or nancy.welcome@lamoille.org
The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that an estimated one out of four adults experiences a serious mental illness and approximately twenty percent of youth, ages thirteen to eighteen, experience a mental disturbance in a given year. (Source: www2.nami/org/factsheet)
Stark statistics reinforce the need to educate ourselves, as a community, to be prepared to offer appropriate assistance if we encounter someone enduring mental health distress,
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