Palm Beach County Bar Association to present Virtual Mental Health First Aid Training
Date: Friday, November 13, 2020
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Cost: PBCBA members: $45.00 / Attorneys who are non-members: $90.00
Price includes the cost of materials, plus CLE General 8.0 and Mental Illness 8.0
Speaker: Cindy Wides, Director, Mental Health First Aid Palm Beach Co. Coalition
MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID is a 5 1/2 hour training course designed to give people key skills to help
someone who is developing a mental health problem or experiencing a mental health
crisis. The course will teach participants how to assist someone in crisis and non-crisis situations.
Participants will learn how to recognize signs and symptoms of mental illness and how to support some
one either developing a mental illness or has a diagnosis. The course does not teach participants how to
diagnose but to learn tools for conversations and skills to respond.
Just as CPR training helps a layperson without medical training assist an individual experiencing
a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid training helps a layperson assist someone experiencing a mental
health crisis. Join us for this important program, including CLE Credit.
Learning Objectives: The evidence behind Mental Health First Aid demonstrates that it makes people
feel more comfortable managing a crisis situation and builds mental health literacy — helping the public
identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness. Specifically, studies found that those who
were trained in Mental Health First Aid have greater confidence in providing help to others, greater likely
hood of advising people to seek professional help, improved concordance with health professionals about
treatments, and decreased stigmatizing attitudes.
* Participants will have to complete a 2-hour self paced portion of the program by October 29, 2020.
Virtual Mental Health First Aid Training
Register online @ palmbeachbar.org (or) print this form and mail it to the PBCBA, 1507 Belvedere
Road, West Palm Beach 33406.
Name _____________________________ Email ___________________________
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